Seventy one US Senators are asking President Barack Obama to continue pressures on Arab countries into normalizing relations with Israel, a demand dismissed as counterproductive by pro-peace Jewish organizations. “We hope that you will continue […]
A top Israeli official has called on Tel Aviv to consider the release of a high-profile Palestinian Fatah prisoner who has been elected to the group’s governing body. Israeli Minister of Minority Affairs Avishay Braverman […]
By Jeff Gates ‘Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.’– George Santayana How quickly we forget. With the Inquisition still fresh in memory, America’s Founders embraced democracy as a means […]
By Sayed Dhansay A few weeks ago I departed from South Africa for the Gaza Strip in order to take up a short-term voluntary post with a humanitarian organization there. As the Rafah border crossing […]
By Shafiq Morton – Cape Town When Human Rights and AIDS activist, Zackie Achmat, fingered South African-born Israeli Defence Force legal adviser, Lieutenant Colonel David Benjamin, on Facebook in late July for his role ‘in […]
By Hassan Isilow – Pretoria The new government is facing a litmus test after civil society groups filled an urgent application with the public prosecution for the arrest and prosecution of South African-born Israeli Lt […]
Vote-counting for a new Fatah executive body and assembly is under way in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. The counting on Monday was delayed for hours in order to allow dozens of Fatah […]
As Israel’s Avigdor Lieberman down played hopes for Middle East peace in the near future a key political ally of the prime minister said Monday Israel should ignore American objections and expand Jewish settlements as […]
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has begun removing 600,000MT of rubble and debris left over from Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. More than six months later, the most deadly threat to civilians […]
By Ali Jawad Working for ‘peace’ in the Middle East comes in all sorts of different shapes and forms; some see its birth-pangs in the shadow of raining bombs, others see the cause of peace […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth An Arab couple whose one-year-old daughter was expelled from an Israeli day-care centre on her first day are suing a Jewish mother for damages, accusing her of racist incitement against their […]
By Catherine Wilson – London The 53rd Biennale of Venice, an international art exhibition and gathering of the global art world which has occurred in Italy every two years since 1895, opened on 7 June. […]
By Rassool Jibraeel Snyman My pen is broken And cannot write My thoughts fail me What sonnets do I write What empty words are these That I might place on accusing paper When there is […]
By Ramzy Baroud When seen from a distance, kites in Gaza may look quite ordinary. But while Gazan children, in many respects, are just children, their kites are hardly ordinary. Often adorned by the red, […]
A senior Israeli diplomat in the United States has said Israel’s policies toward Washington are causing damage to strategic ties with its closes ally. The blistering attack was launched by Israel’s consul-general in Boston Nadav […]
By Jeff Gates During the 1960 Christmas season, Americans flocked to the theaters to see Exodus, a 3-1/2 hour epic featuring romance, handsome freedom fighters and the triumph of Jewish destiny over Arab evil—all set […]
By Jeff Gates During the 1960 Christmas season, Americans flocked to the theaters to see Exodus, a 3-1/2 hour epic featuring romance, handsome freedom fighters and the triumph of Jewish destiny over Arab evil—all set […]
Hezbollah has condemned the Israeli parliament’s approval of a bill which provides for privatizing the Palestinian land occupied during the 1948 war. "Today, the Israeli Knesset passed the ‘law on privatization of territories’ which confirms […]
By Jim Miles One State, Two States – Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict. Benny Morris. Yale University Press, New Haven, NJ. 2009 This is a rather oily work to deal with, operating under the pretence of […]
By Franklin Lamb – Ramlet el Baida, Beirut It is hard to believe that it has already been three years since July 13 and 15, 2006, when American MK 82 and MK 83,500 and 1,000 […]
Senior US Republican Congressman Eric Cantor has said that the world should stop pressuring Israel over its settlement activities. According to Cantor, the main obstacle to Middle East peace is the Palestinian refusal to recognize […]
By Iqbal Jassat Beyond Chutzpah On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. Norman G Finkelstein. ISBN 1-84467-049-X. Verso 2005. The imminent visit to South Africa by Norman G. Finkelstein following a major […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago After ten and a half years in office, Hugo Chavez is very savvy about America’s intentions. On January 17, even before Obama’s inauguration, he said "Barack Obama has the ‘stench’ […]
The first Fatah party conference in 20 years has been extended amid infighting between delegates. The meeting of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ movement in Bethlehem was scheduled to end on Thursday after resolving disputes over […]
Amid shocking revelations that Israeli soldiers employed Palestinian children as human shields during the war on Gaza, a former Israeli military commander explains how Palestinian minors are treated on an ongoing basis. Palestinian youth are […]
Human Rights Watch has accused the Palestinian Hamas movement of war crime, saying its rocket attacks against Israel are ‘unlawful and unjustifiable’. "Hamas forces violated the laws of war both by firing rockets deliberately and […]
By Jonathan Cook – Tel Aviv Two immigrants from the former Soviet Union staged a very public wedding in the streets of central Tel Aviv this week to highlight the plight of hundreds of thousands of […]
By George S. Hishmeh Barack Obama is in a bit of a bind. Unlike any of his predecessors, this American president chose, admirably, to attempt to tackle the Palestinian-Israeli conflict shortly after taking office, realizing […]
By Aisha Mouneimne – Cape Town A groundbreaking application to the National Prosecuting Authority and to the Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation was launched on Wednesday in Johannesburg by various Palestinian lobbyists. The Palestinian Solidarity […]
By Sam Husseini So Obama came with cupcakes to wish Helen Thomas a happy birthday. Now, if only he’d take her questions. Obama claimed they have a "common birthday wish" — for a "real healthcare […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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