The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has accused the United Nations of supporting Israel over the crippling naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum on Saturday attacked the recent UN statement, which called […]
An international British-based aid agency says Israel should compensate for the damage its soldiers have inflicted on impoverished Palestinians. Oxfam on Saturday issued a statement, which criticized Israel for wasting international money donated to Palestinians […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel Since I witnessed the rise of the Nazis during my childhood in Germany, my nose always tickles when it smells something fascist, even when the odor is still faint. When […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has reiterated that it will only join direct negotiations with Israel when Tel Aviv ends the expansion of West Bank settlements. Chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Saturday that Israel […]
Angry protesters in Turkey have staged a demonstration against the presence of an Israeli team at a volleyball tournament in their country. Large numbers of people gathered near the sports hall in the capital Ankara […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Israelis wanted for war crimes can sleep easier thanks to their friends and admirers in the British Establishment. Yes, our brand-new coalition government intends providing a safe haven for the […]
By Raid Khoury The plight of the Palestinian Arabs has been well documented and their cause kept alive by the indestructible spirit of this courageous and proud people. Those who were supposed to disappear from […]
By John V. Whitbeck On July 22, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on the following question posed to it by Serbia: “Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions […]
By William A. Cook ‘We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk […]
By Stuart Littlewood ‘This Time We Went Too Far’. By Norman Finkelstein. OR Books, 2010. Quite simply, this is a cracker of a book and very timely. In explaining how Israel’s war on Gaza in […]
By Beverly Brodsky Letters from Palestine: Palestinians Speak out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the Power of Nonviolence. Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah. “Papers, please!” This demand from a French official in the film […]
At least two Palestinians have been killed and seven others wounded in an Israeli attack in northern part of the Gaza Strip, medics and witnesses say. The incident happened on Wednesday afternoon when Israeli forces […]
By Ramzy Baroud Each time Israel fails to keep its ‘side of the bargain’, the Palestinian Authority responds with the same redundant language. The cycle has become so utterly predictable that one wonders why the […]
The Islamic Hamas movement has blamed US and Israel for the ongoing impasse between the Palestinian resistance movement and rival Fatah party. "US intervention in the region, the issue of indirect talks, banning residents from […]
By Nicola Nasser Since 1860, when the American Jewish tycoon Judah Touro donated $60,000 — a fortune for that time — towards the construction of the first Jewish settlement outside the old walls of Jerusalem, […]
In a unanimous vote, the Lebanese cabinet has decided to file an official complaint against Israel at the UN Security Council over the Israeli spy rings operating in the country. The complaint will be about […]
By Sally Bland Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean. Basem L. Ra’ad. London-New York: Pluto Press, 2010. Pp. 272 Most Palestinians, Arabs and their sympathizers know all too well that turning Palestine into Israel […]
Amnesty International has reiterated its call on Israel to stop the demolition of Palestinian houses and other buildings in the West Bank. The international rights watchdog on Wednesday condemned the Israeli demolition policy and charged […]
By George Ikners Resistir e Vencer, to resist is to win, a simple phrase from the life of Gusmao describing the struggle in Timor-Leste. Today there are various meanings attributed to the idea of resistance […]
Israel has demolished eight houses and ships belonging to Palestinians in a residential area northwest of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Dozens of Israeli soldiers arrived in al-Gharbi village on Wednesday morning and immediately […]
By Jim Miles Start-Up Nation – The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle. Dan Senor and Saul Singer. Council of Foreign Relations Book, McClelland & Stewart. 2009. There are no Palestinians…. Israel is an amazing place […]
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says his country would keep up its all-out efforts to push Israel into removing the years-long siege of the Gaza Strip. Davutoglu met with Hamas’ political leader, Khaled Meshaal in […]
Fatah’s official in charge of al-Quds (Jerusalem) affairs has accused the Palestinian Authority of "serious negligence" and thus harming the Palestinians in the city. The government led by caretaker Prime Minister Salam Feyadh has failed […]
By Jonathan Cook A fascinating debate is entering Israel’s political mainstream on a once-taboo subject: the establishment of a single state as a resolution of the conflict, one in which Jews and Palestinians might potentially […]
The Fatah party, which leads the Palestinian Authority (PA), once again urges a halt in Israel’s expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian lands. Secretary of Fatah’s Central Committee Jibril Rajub said on Tuesday that […]
Israel has leveled tents used by Palestinians as their homes in the northern West Bank in defiance of global calls for halting the destruction of Palestinian shelters. Israeli soldiers entered al-Farisiya village on Monday morning […]
An Israeli man accused of being involved in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai has appealed a Polish court’s decision to extradite him to Germany. Last month, Uri Brodsky was captured in Warsaw […]
By George S. Hishmeh –Washington, D.C. It was a session replete with superlatives when the assistant secretary of state for political and military affairs, Andrew J. Shapiro, spelled out in unprecedented detail the Obama administration’s approach […]
By Stephen Lendman In July 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled Israel’s ‘Separation Wall’ illegal, saying its route inside the West Bank, and associated gate and permit system, violated Israel’s obligations under international […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth There is one video Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, must be praying never gets posted on YouTube with English subtitles. To date, the 10-minute segment has been broadcast only in Hebrew […]
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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