Pressure Mounts on Abbas to Quit
A senior member of Hamas has demanded that the Palestinian president resign for supporting the postponement of a UN vote which could have led to the prosecution of Israel for war crimes during its campaign in […]
Month: October 2009
Israeli, US Army Chiefs Hold Secret Talks on Iran
Israeli Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi and his American counterpart Admiral Mike Mullen have held secret talks in France with a special focus on Iran. The two officials, who met in the […]
Israel to Build 800 More Units in Illegal Settlements
Tel Aviv is going to construct some 800 new housing units across the occupied West Bank despite international calls for a halt to all settlement activities. "The settlers are working fast to produce as many […]
Deconstructing the Israeli Narrative
By Dan Lieberman As Israel’s democratic posture becomes more questioned, its mystique becomes more exaggerated. To prove the validity of its actions, Israel’s supporters focus on three components of Israel’s drive to an accomplished nation: The […]
Will Israel Ensure that History Repeats Itself?
By Jeff Gates The lead-up to the first U.S.-Iran talks in three decades saw a replay of the same modus operandi that induced the U.S. and its allies to invade Iraq in March 2003. Then […]
Obama’s Witchhunt
By Stephen Lendman The FBI’s top six news stories for the week ending September 25 were about arrests and/or indictments of suspected Muslim terrorists. Combined, they became the latest national security targets in America’s war […]
Palestinians: Abbas Betraying Martyrs’ Blood
The Palestinian Authority has come under fire from other factions including Hamas over its request from the UN Human Rights Council to defer a UN vote over Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Taher Al-Nouno, a […]
Hamas: PA Trades in Blood of Gaza Children
The democratically-elected premier of Hamas government in Gaza has lambasted the Palestinian Authority over its decision to delay a vote on a report about the Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Ismail Haniya also slammed as […]
UN Must Immediately Adopt and Act on Goldstone Report
By Omar Barghouti Palestinian civil society has strongly and almost unanimously condemned the Palestinian Authority’s latest decision to delay adoption by the UN Human Rights Council of the report prepared by the UN Fact-Finding Mission, […]
If You Can’t Beat Hamas…
By James Gundun While the international community shuttles from one meeting to the next, jets from one city to the next, Gazans idle their time or keep their minds distracted from the past and future. […]
Audacity of Nope: Obama Disappoints as Middle East Peacemaker
By Ira Glunts Let me make one thing perfectly clear: President Barack Obama definitively demonstrated at the trilateral summit in New York that he will not contribute anything significant to peacemaking between Israelis and Palestinians. […]
US ‘Pressured Abbas on UN Report’
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, urged the Palestinian Authority (PA) not to accept the findings of a UN report into Israel’s war on Gaza because of fears it might scupper attempts to restart […]
Israeli Troops Close Ibrahimi Mosque to Non-Jews
‘Israeli troops have been deployed outside the structure since late Friday evening and designated the area for the exclusive use of Jewish settlers until Monday,’ Head of the Endowment and Religious Affairs Department in al-Khalil […]
Israel Musing Over Another Gaza Onslaught: Report
The military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement known as the Al-Quds Brigades says that Tel Aviv is mulling over another round of attacks on the Gaza Strip. "The ongoing status quo has […]
Khaled Mashall: Israel ‘Destined’ to Fall
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal hails the release of 19 Palestinian detainees, describing the prisoner swap as a prelude to liberation of all Palestinians in Israeli prisons. In a televised speech late on Friday in Damascus, […]
Israel Frees Other Captives in Shalit Video Swap
Israel has set free the remaining nineteen Palestinian female captives in exchange for a one-minute video showing the fate of a captured IDF soldier, Gilad Shalit. Eighteen of the women crossed into the West Bank […]
Obama Agrees to Cover Up Israel’s Nukes
Israel has reportedly received an assurance by US President Barack Obama that it would not be pressured into accounting for its alleged nuclear arsenal or signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In a meeting with, […]
Should Obama Back Goldstone Report?
By George Bisharat President Obama has placed restoration of the stature of the United States among his primary foreign policy goals. He has already achieved substantial progress in Europe, where polls indicate that he is […]
Sinking the Goldstone Report
By James Gundun They had no one else to turn to. Yesterday PLO Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Ibrahim Khraishi claimed ‘we have enough votes’ to pass Richard Goldstone’s Gaza report in the UN […]
Carter Says Iran Nuclear Program ‘Legal’
Former US president Jimmy Carter says Iran’s nuclear program is "legal," urging Washington and Tel Aviv to stop making threats against Iran. "I hope and pray that Iran will be induced to permit international inspectors […]
Israel to Seal Off West Bank Border for 9 Days
Israel has announced plans to shut down the West Bank border for almost ten days so that Jewish Israelis can celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). The closure will begin on Thursday, October 1 and […]
Israel Lobbying to Expunge UN Report, Avoid Prosecution
Tel Aviv is lobbying Western powers to prevent a UN report, attesting to Israel’s war crimes during the Gaza carnage, from being adopted by the UN Human Rights Council. After a three-month investigation, former South […]
The Comic Genius of Netanyahu
By Stuart Littlewood – London Knowing that Iran won’t surrender its right to civil nuclear power, the schemers in Tel Aviv and Washington were bound to mount a hysterical campaign to scare the rest of the […]
Mizrahi Jews Reach Out to the Arab World
By Sherri Muzher When the late Egyptian president and Pan-Arabist Gamal Abdel Nasser led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, it may surprise people to know that it was the Egyptian singer and Mizrahi Jew Leila […]
On Palestinian Civil Disobedience
By Neve Gordon Sometime in 1846, Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail because he refused to pay his taxes. This was his way of opposing the Mexican-American War as well as the institution […]
Iran’s Nuclear Theater Meant to Divert Attention
By Ramzy Baroud World events have taken an interesting turn recently, with the Goldstone report, which wreaked havoc in the beginning of the week being nearly completely overshadowed by Iran’s revelation of another nuclear facility, […]
