A United Nations investigator has defended a report published earlier this month that accuses Israel and Palestinian fighters of war crimes following the Israeli offensive in Gaza earlier this year. Addressing the UN Human Rights […]
British lawmakers and pro-Palestinian activists have pilloried the governing Labour Party for entertaining Israeli War Minister Ehud Barak at their annual conference instead of calling for his arrest for war crimes committed against the Palestinians. […]
The elected prime minister of Palestine, Ismail Haniyeh, says his party Hamas has approved the framework of the Egyptian peace agreement and that signing it ‘is near.’ In an interview aired on September 29, Haniyeh […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Nine months after he helped to organise protests against Israel’s attack on Gaza, Samih Jabareen is a prisoner in his home in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, an electronic bracelet around […]
By Jim Miles That Israel exists and has the power to continue existing is very much a fact. With a sophisticated military establishment including more than 200 nuclear weapons (at lowest estimates) there is no way […]
By Stu Harrison ‘The war could have finished the day before I arrived’, independent journalist and author Antony Loewenstein told ‘Green Left Weekly’ of his recent trip to the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza. His […]
Israeli fighter jets have been allowed to use Saudi airspace to launch go-it-alone air strikes on Iranian nuclear installations, says a recent report. The issue has been discussed in a closed-door meeting in London, where […]
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem urges Israel to yield to the demands pressed by the UN nuclear watchdog and open its nuclear sites to inspection. The Syrian diplomat said on Monday that the Israeli regime […]
Palestinian factions have joined the Islamic Conference Organization to condemn the Israeli troops’ breaking into the al-Aqsa mosque. The Palestinian Authority, in a statement issued on Monday evening, condemned Sunday’s Israeli infringement on the al-Aqsa […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Israel’s 130 West Bank settlements are illegal under international law, including Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention that states: "Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of […]
By Jonathan Cook – Arrabeh Demands from Israel’s chief commander this month that all Israeli citizens should be required to perform national service has turned the spotlight on a rarely discussed group of soldiers: members […]
Five people have been injured after shots were fired at a funeral in Gaza City for two of three Palestinians killed in an Israeli air raid, Palestinian medical sources have said. The gunshots rang out […]
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has called on Arab nations to take steps towards normalising ties with Israel, in an effort to restart stalled Middle East peace talks. Cinton made her case with […]
Four Palestinians have been injured and another seven detained after Israeli police stormed the al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli security forces on Sunday fired rubber bullets and stun grenades at Palestinians who […]
Several Palestinian factions, including the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the Hamas resistance movement have warned of a new Intifada, or uprising. The warning by the Palestinian groups came after Israeli police beat up Palestinian […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth A local authority in Israel has announced that it is establishing a special team of youth counsellors and psychologists whose job it will be to identify young Jewish women who are dating […]
By William A. Cook Consider the consequences of the Israeli PR blitz that is now blanketing the world as its defiant answer to the United Nations’ authorized investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity by […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Why do I have this feeling that we have been here and done all this before? I know, I know. This US President is different, as different from his […]
Israel’s prime minister has told the United Nations it must prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons – and accused the world body of bias towards the Palestinians. In an address to the UN General Assembly […]
Zeid al-Ja’bary, Head of the Waqf and Endowment department, said on Thursday that this was the first time the settlers had entered the mosque since the massacre carried out by Baroach Goldstein in 1994, killing […]
During the trilateral meeting in New York, beyond a cool handshake, there were no signs of progress toward restarting peace talks. Facing strong Israeli resistance over its demand for a full settlement freeze, the US […]
Israel has given the go ahead to the construction of more houses in the occupied West Bank amid the world’s calls for a complete freeze in such activities. The Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has […]
Official sources reported that five Palestinian fishermen were arrested on Wednesday morning. Israeli forces seized their boats near the coast of Gaza City. Sources added that the fishing boats were surrounded by Israeli gunboats, the […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Established in 1992, the Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association helps Palestinian prisoners, and works to end torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, other forms of abuse, […]
By Max Kantar The recent publication of the UNHRC’s report on Israel’s December-January assault on the Gaza Strip, also known as the Goldstone Report, has elicited some rather hysterical reactions from Israel’s leading apologists. Perhaps […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel No point denying it: in the first round of the match between Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu, Obama was beaten. Obama demanded a freeze of all settlement activity, including East […]
When Barack Obama was campaigning to be the US president in late 2008, he said that achieving a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would become a focus of his administration if elected. Shortly after […]
By John V. Whitbeck The desperate and desultory New York ‘summit’ among Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas and the evident capitulation of Obama to Israeli defiance of even his minimalist effort to achieve mere […]
By James Gundun With expectations building to unrealistic proportions, American, Israeli, and Palestinians officials have started downplaying the looming tripartite summit on the UN sidelines. All sides insist the meeting isn’t a resumption of negotiations, […]
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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