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Month: May 2009
Netanyahu: Settlements to Expand
Israel’s prime minister has said that Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank will continue to be expanded. "I have no intention to construct new settlements," Binyamin Netanyahu was quoted by officials as telling his […]
Military Are Contaminating Water Sources – Environment Ministry
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) bases in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) and Israel are contaminating land and water sources, says a letter addressed to Maj-Gen Gadi Shamni, commander-in-chief of the central command in Israel. According […]
Gaza Liquidity Crisis Having Tangible Humanitarian Impact
A banking and liquidity crisis is affecting the lives of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip: Civil servants are struggling to get their salaries, and humanitarian aid is being delayed. Thousands of welfare benefit recipients are […]
‘Cry, the Beloved Country’
By Joharah Baker – Jerusalem Jaffa. The word itself conjures up images of warmth, comfort, beautiful sandy beaches and miles of blue-green sea and the smell of oranges mingled with the misty sea breeze. These […]
Time for Transparency at Der Spiegel?
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "We don’t know where the Der Spiegel magazine did get their information from and we don’t know where they brought this story from. No one in the prosecutor’s office has […]
Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago On March 15, 2006, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly 170 to 4 (with only the US, Israel, the Marshall Islands and Palau against) "to establish the Human Rights Council […]
Rethinking the Costs of Peace
By Josh Ruebner In pledging to trim ineffective spending, President Obama declared that "there will be no sacred cows and no pet projects. All across America, families are making hard choices, and it’s time their […]
Taking on the Lobby: Calm Voice, Big Stick
By Uri Avnery – Israel Barack Obama is often compared to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but it is from the book of another Roosevelt that he has taken a leaf: President Theodore Roosevelt, who, 108 years […]
Words that Start with L Are Confusing
By Belén Fern
‘Israel Map’ Withdrawn from London Tube
Floods of complaints have forced the Israeli government to withdraw tourism posters from London Underground for featuring a map that treating the occupied Arab lands as part of Israel. "(The ads are) a disingenuous attempt […]
King Abdullah
By Rannie Amiri "What we are talking about is not Israelis and Palestinians sitting at the table, but Israelis sitting with Palestinians, Israelis sitting with Syrians, Israelis sitting with Lebanese. And with the Arabs and […]
Concrete Monster
By Rassool Jibraeel Snyman It risesIn all its brutalityInhumanityBestiality A concrete monsterSnaking through the land of Palestine Speaking gutturally of one people’sHatred of anotherThe exploitation of one by anotherThe theft of land and livesAnd dreamsAnd […]
Israeli Troops Kill Gaza Fighters
Israeli troops have shot dead two Palestinian fighters after they approached Israel’s border fence with the Gaza Strip, the military said. An army spokesman on Friday said that the soldiers entered the Gaza Strip to […]
Sudan Airstrikes: How Contradiction Became Evidence
By Guy Gabriel When asked about the alleged Israeli involvement in airstrikes in north-east Sudan in early 2009, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert responded: "There is no point in going into detail, and everybody can use […]
Biden Does Beirut
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "It appears that the Biden visit is part of a US bid to supervise the electoral campaign of a Lebanese party, which feels threatened politically, in light of the expected […]
Explosive Remnants in Colombia
By Belén Fern
Gaza Disowned: The Pope, Israel and ‘Reconciliation’
By Ramzy Baroud "Gaza is not on the Pope’s itinerary, nor will it be. There will be no change in these plans. But I’ll say it very clearly, the Pope is absolutely not going to […]
Arabs See Hope in Credible Obama: Poll
By Muhammed Qasim – Washington As US President Barack Obama prepares to reach out to the Arab and Muslim world from Egypt, a new opinion survey in six Arab countries found a genuine opportunity for […]
Hamas Urges Coexistence under Palestinian Rule
In his first interview since the breakdown of talks between Palestinian factions, one leader of the Islamist group Hamas said progress had been made but called the newly-formed Palestinian government a step in the wrong […]
New Faces for an Old Struggle
By Joharah Baker – Jerusalem Two major events took place this week, which will most definitely contribute to the shape and outcome of future events in the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The first is the meeting […]
Frames of War – Book Review
By Nathaniel Mehr – London Judith Butler, Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? (London: Verso, 2009) Frames of War is a searching examination of the intellectual frameworks informing the double-standards which pervade contemporary political, […]
Showing ‘Cruel Racists’ Zero Tolerance
By Stuart Littlewood – London "Lucky we’re not in Gaza," I said to my surgeon last week, "or you wouldn’t have been able to fix my problem." I was lying in a hospital bed in […]
Determined Obama is Key to Resolution
By George S. Hishmeh The Arab world was generally anxious that President Barack Obama would retreat from his view, reiterated recently by several of his key officials, that a Palestinian-Israel settlement merits top and immediate […]
Obama’s Foreign Policy Failures: Diplomacy, Militarism and Imagery
By James Petras Introduction President Obama’s greatest foreign policy successes are found in the reports of the mass media. His greatest failures go unreported, but are of great consequence. A survey of the major foreign […]
Sons of Eilaboun
By Gilad Atzmon – London The truth of the Nakba has been hidden for many decades. Not many except the Palestinians are aware of the scale of 1948 ethnic expulsions and even fewer are aware […]
Muslims Play Kingmaker in India
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai It seems nothing succeeds like success. With Congress party registering a spectacular victory in the world’s biggest election, every pundit who cribbed about the Congress-led alliance and predicted its […]
Israel Stages Gaza Raids as PM Faces US Pressure
Israeli warplanes bombed a Hamas security outpost and tunnels by the Gaza border with Egypt late Tuesday in response to a rocket attack as the government faced fresh pressure from the United States to freeze […]
Israel PM Ready to Launch Mideast Peace Talks
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he told U.S. President Barack Obama he was willing to launch peace talks with the Palestinians and Syria immediately. "I said that I was ready to immediately […]
Spy Chief Dismisses West Bank Wall
The head of Israel’s internal security service has said that Israel has no need to continue building its separation wall between Israel and the West Bank. Yuval Diskin, who heads Shin Bet, told a subcommittee […]