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Month: August 2009
Mubarak Holds Mideast Talks in US
Egypt’s president has arrived in Washington for the first time in nearly five years to hold talks expected to focus on Israel and the Palestinians and Iran’s nuclear programme. Hosni Mubarak will meet Hillary Clinton, […]
Israeli Blockade Claims 344 Gaza Patients
Palestinian sources say 344 patients have so far died post 22-day war against Gaza, because of a lack of medical supplies in the Gaza strip due to an Israeli siege. The last "martyr of the […]
Visit Either Israel or Palestine: Israel’s Visa Rules
Israel’s tourism ministry on Monday slammed the interior ministry for enacting new restrictions that would prevent foreigners from visiting both Israel and the Palestinian territories. The measure, which was quietly enacted earlier this year, forces […]
US Turns Blind Eye to Israel’s New Separation Policy
By Jonathan Cook – Jerusalem In an echo of restrictions already firmly in place in Gaza, Israel has begun barring movement between Israel and the West Bank for those holding a foreign passport, including humanitarian aid […]
Israel Threatens Lebanon and Obama
By Franklin Lamb – Along the Blue Line in South Lebanon Suddenly they were all over the place, arriving not as singles but in battalions. Many, like Maryland’s 5th District Rep. Steny Hoyer had been to […]
Letter to an Israeli Mother
By Rassool Jibraeel Snyman You feed your baby I strap on my bombs Two faces of the same mirror I weep as the straps bite into my flesh The cry of my babies Ring in […]
I am Not Yet Born, Forgive Me!
By Hussein Al-alak – UK ‘I am not yet born; forgive me. For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words when they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, my […]
Hamas Fights Gaza ‘Islamic Emirate’
Clashes between Hamas police and a radical group that declared an “Islamic emirate” in the Gaza Strip left 22 people killed, including the group’s leader. "Clashes… between Hamas and an extremist group in the southern […]
UN Finds Evidence of Israeli Crimes in Gaza
The United Nations human rights chief says significant evidence indicates that Israeli forces committed serious crimes against Palestinians during the 22-day war against Gaza. A report by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, […]
Hezbollah: Tel Aviv Retaliatory Target for Beirut Attack
A Hezbollah supporter holds a poster of Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the end of the 33-day war with Israel, Lebanon, Friday Aug. 14, 2009. Hezbollah’s […]
Israel Begins Sell-off of Refugees’ Land
By Jonathan Cook – Tzipori Amin Muhammad Ali, a 74-year-old refugee from a destroyed Palestinian village in northern Israel, says he only feels truly at peace when he stands among his ancestors’ graves. The cemetery, surrounded […]
Zeroing in on Israel’s Existential Threats
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "Well, the two cases that you give, Hamas and Hezbollah, are interesting case studies. Hezbollah has evolved significantly over time. And now it has members of parliament, in the cabinet; […]
Expired and Expiring Ideas in Palestine-Israel Conflict
By Dina Jadallah Now more than ever, it is necessary to state caveats when using words. In some cases, the caveats have expanded so greatly, that there is little space left for the original meaning. […]
Obama’s Presidency: A Political and Moral Disappointment
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal It’s all over town. Only the Obama administration does not want to hear it. The people responsible for the moral decay of U.S. foreign policy were the ‘Bush-worriers’: Vice President Dick […]
Fatah: A New Beginning or an Imminent End?
By Ramzy Baroud This is hardly the rational order of things. An overpowering military occupation was meant to be resisted by an equally determined, focused and unyielding national movement, hell-bent on liberation at any cost […]
Israel Killed White Flag Gazans: HRW
Israeli soldiers murdered unarmed Palestinian women and children who were waving white flags during its war on the Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, August 13, urging a swift investigation into the war […]
No Talks Unless Israel Halts Settlements: Abbas
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday ruled out resuming peace talks with Israel unless it stops building of settlements in the occupied territories and insisted on the Palestinians right to "legitimate resistance." Abbas made the […]
Livni: Israelis Seek Moving Abroad
Israeli opposition chairman says hundreds of thousands of citizens are trying to find ways to leave Israel due to the current ‘grim political situation’. Leader of the opposition Kadima Party, Tzipi Livni, said Wednesday that […]
Untold Story of The King-Crane Commission
By Tammy Obeidallah ‘Down with American Imperialists.’ This sign, or one of its variations, can be seen at protests and demonstratons throughout the world. U.S. policies have given credence to it, fueling legitimate hatred in […]
Israel Urged to ‘Rush’ into Attack on Iran
An Israeli defense official believes Tel Aviv must rush to carry out a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities even without US approval, a report says. A ‘senior defense official’ said that Tel Aviv believed […]
Fatah Gets a Facelift, but Needs to Reconcile
By George S. Hishmeh If one chooses to be charitable, the holding of the Congress of the most significant Palestinian nationalist movement in Israeli-besieged Palestine for the first time since its founding in the early […]
Fatah Committee Chiefs in Gaza Quit
Eleven senior leaders from the Gaza Strip have resigned from Fatah’s highest committee in protest at the election process and results of their movement’s top decision-making body. Ahmed Nasser, a senior Fatah member in Gaza, […]
Ramadan Joy Denied Gaza Entry
By Shaimaa Mustafa – Gaza City Ihab Al-Ashqar, a 14-year-old Gazan, smiles bitterly while explaining why he does not feel the joy that always accompanies the arrival of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. “All […]
Gaza: Rubble Removal Uncovers Potential Health Hazards
Nearly seven months after Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has begun removing some 600,000MT of rubble containing asbestos and other hazardous material. Israel’s 23-day operation destroyed 4,000 housing […]
Israel’s Fifth Column: The People in Between
By Jeff Gates In October 2007, Defense Secretary Robert Gates coined a generic term to describe the most challenging combatants when waging unconventional warfare. He called them simply “the people in between.” Those people, a […]
Religious Fundamentalism in Israel
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Israel Shahak’s (1933-2001) ‘Jewish History, Jewish Religion’ argued that while Islamic fundamentalism is vilified in the West, comparable Jewish extremism is largely ignored. In the book’s forward, Edward Said wrote: […]
History Lessons
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Hyderabad, India My new place in Hyderabad, India, is a little, two-storey affair that looks rather large to us after spending seven years in a two-bedroom apartment in Dubai. It’s not […]
Elections Bring New Fatah Faces
In the first election in two decades, Fatah members brought to the helm of power in their once-dominant movement many new and young faces. "This is an unexpected result," Naser al-Kidwa, the nephew of late […]