By Heidi Schramm – Washington On February 4, Nir Barakat, the mayor of Jerusalem, announced that he would accept a 2007 ruling issued by an Israeli High Court ordering the Jerusalem municipality to evacuate and […]
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Israeli forces have arrested fourteen Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, witnesses said. Around 10 Palestinian men looking for iron girders northeast of Beit Lahiyaa were seized and dragged into Israeli vehicles […]
The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has endorsed a draft resolution that gives Tel Aviv carte blanche authority to maintain the occupation of the lands confiscated from Palestinians. The resolution, endorsed on Monday, has been widely described […]
Israel has rejected United Nations demands of an independent probe into its last year war on the Gaza Strip which claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Palestinians. A senior official in the Israeli Prime […]
By Jonathan Cook – Jerusalem The Israeli courts ordered the release this week of two foreign women arrested by the army in the West Bank in what human-rights lawyers warn has become a wide-ranging clampdown by […]
Hassan al-Err, aged 67, and his seven-member family are moving into a mud house built by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, because other building materials are not available. The […]
Hundreds of prominent Israeli university professors and lecturers have blasted their government’s decision to recognize the first university built on occupied Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, warning this fans international boycott of Israeli […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington Inch by inch, the Palestinian president has apparently once again succumbed to American pressure. He is about to allow his junior officials to start so-called “proximity talks” with their […]
By Tammy Obeidallah Amid the glamour of the world’s tallest building, gold bars, man-made islands, casinos and fashion, a man lay dead in his hotel room. Preliminary reports would say he had been suffocated with […]
Shouting “killer and murderer”, hundreds of American students heckled Israeli ambassador Michael Oren during a speech at the University of California over the Gaza War, reported The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday, February 9. “Michael Oren! […]
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has charged Israel with launching hundreds of attacks against Palestinian medical teams in 2009. The aid group, also known as PRCS, said that the Israeli troops fired 15 times at […]
By Jonathan Cook – Jerusalem Jerusalem’s mayor threatened last week to demolish 200 homes in Palestinian neighbourhoods of the city in an act even he conceded would probably bring long-simmering tensions over housing in East […]
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has scoffed at the blockade of the Gaza Strip, saying walls cannot force Palestinians to submit to external control. "Gaza is surrounded on three sides; north, east, and south; to […]
Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Monday to discuss prospects of reunifying Palestinian factions. Lavrov told reporters on Monday that the discussions mainly focused on reviving "efforts brokered by Egypt […]
Palestinians say they would consider a US offer to hold indirect peace talks with Israel if the talks are focused on the issue of the borders. Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said on Monday that the […]
Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas has criticized the US administration for changing its stance on Israel’s settlement activity. In an interview with the German daily Der Spiegel, Mahmoud Abbas said President Barack Obama has […]
Egypt is to close its sea border to the Gaza-bound supplies as it reinforces the restrictions against the passage of sustenance into the strip. Cairo has ordered a port to be built at its maritime […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Israel has failed to conduct a proper investigation of the alleged war crimes committed by its forces during the December 2008-January 2009 Gaza war. On Sunday, Joe Stork, the deputy […]
Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas during his visit to Hiroshima has urged the world to abandon weapons of mass destruction including nuclear arms. Abbas kicked off his Asian tour on Sunday in the Japanese […]
By Ramzy Baroud The media’s habit of revisiting certain issues at set intervals can be strange and even illogical at times. For example, many news outlets commented on President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in […]
By M. Shahid Alam An Arab-American of Lebanese descent, fluent in Arabic, Anthony Shadid was one of a handful of unembedded Western journalists reporting from Iraq during the US invasion in 2003. At the time, […]
One of the two generators of Gaza’s only power plant has been shut down due to a shortage of fuel, cutting power to around 50 percent of the residents of the Gaza Strip. The Gaza […]
The Palestinian Authority says it has sent a memorandum to The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) in a bid to seek justice for "all Israeli crimes" committed in the occupied Palestinian lands. On Friday, Palestinian […]
A Palestinian Fatah party delegation, returning home from the Hamas-run Gaza strip, said Friday the rival factions have taken major steps toward a reconciliation deal. "We have paved the way to new ties based on […]
A new Israeli poll has indicated that the popularity of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is plummeting. According to the poll, conducted by Tel Aviv University’s Department of Statistics, the […]
By Ira Glunts Is it possible that Rahm Emanuel will lead a team of high octane Democratic party pro-Israel political operatives to run the campaign for the former Prime Minister and current Defense Minister Ehud […]
By Uri Avnery Many important struggles in Israel are calling out to people of conscience. Among others (in random order): The struggle for preserving the environment and the future of the planet. The struggle for […]
Dr. Ludwig Watzal – Bonn Yitzhak Laor, The Myths of Liberal Zionism (London: Verso, 2010) 162 p. The book deals with the deep contradictions within Israeli society, the fact that a large majority of the […]
Democratically-elected Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh says Israel must recognize the rights of the Palestinian people before asking for recognition. "They have to recognize us first, the right of the Palestinian people, we are the […]
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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