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Month: August 2010

Israel Vows to Seize Lebanon Aid Ship
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has threatened Beirut with action by the Israeli navy to intercept a Lebanese ship heading to the besieged Gaza Strip. Barak claimed that the Lebanese ship Mariam is not on […]

Fatah, Hamas Leaders to Meet in Gaza
The leaders of Fatah and Hamas are scheduled to meet in Gaza on Saturday in an attempt to end the internal conflict and achieve reconciliation. The talks are to be conducted based on trust and […]

Israel Jets, Drone Enter Lebanon Airspace
Four Israeli warplanes and one spy drone have illegally flown over Lebanon’s airspace in the third day of provocative violations of the country’s sovereignty. On Friday, the Israeli aircraft entered the southern border town of […]

Gazan Fisherman Shot by Israel Navy
Israeli naval forces have shot and injured a local fisherman during a patrol of the Gaza Strip’s coastline, Palestinian medical sources have said. The 22-year-old victim came under attack on Saturday while sailing, the Palestinian […]

Ramadan in Aida Camp: Sitting, Waiting, Existing
By Rich Wiles From the barred windows of a four storey house string runs across the narrow main street of Aida Camp, well above head height, to the caged fence atop the walls of Aida […]

Ramadan Kareem from Netanyahu and Obama
By Jeff Halper The day before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began, at 2:30 in the morning, workers sent by the Israeli authorities, protected by dozens of police, destroyed the tombstones in the last […]

Direct Negotiations and the Challenge Ahead
By John V. Whitbeck The U.S. government has now announced that direct Israeli-Palestinian will resume after a September 2 launch ceremony at the White House. In making this announcement, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton […]

Post-Zionism – When You Say No
By Uri Avnery Before the victory of feminism, there was a popular Israeli song in which the boy asks the girl: ‘When you say No, what do you mean?’ This question has already been answered. […]

Trapped at Ground Zero
By Ramzy Baroud The controversy over the right of Muslim Americans to build community center and mosque a short distance from the site of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is both strange and outright […]

Hamas Must Re-brand
By Stuart Littlewood – London In the five years since I became interested in the conflict in Palestine, only two things of positive note have happened in the Occupied Territories. The Palestinians held full and […]

Anti-Israel Sentiment Grows in US
A new opinion poll shows the Israeli regime is losing support among the American public as more US citizens question Tel Aviv’s commitment to peace. The survey presented to Israeli leaders last week was conducted […]

‘US to Unveil New Mideast Talks Plan’: BBC
The US reportedly plans to announce details of direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians in a bid to put an end to the ongoing conflict. According to the BBC, the US State Department is to […]

No Country Can Warn Turkey: Davutoglu
The Turkish foreign minister has rejected a newspaper report and says that no country can issue warnings against Turkey, especially against its prime minister. Ahmet Davutoglu was responding to a story in the Financial Times […]

‘Murderer Israelis not Afraid to Steal’
An Arab Israeli politician spoke out against an alleged theft by the Israeli forces of the Flotilla activists’ personal belongings. Hanin Zuabi, who is member of the Israeli parliament, Knesset, joined the humanitarian campaign to […]

And the State, is It Loyal?
By Neve Gordon Several weeks ago, hundreds of students demonstrated in front of Ben-Gurion University’s administration building. About a third of the protestors were expressing their opposition to the government’s decision to attack the relief […]

Playing the Never Again Card, Again
By Jeff Gates The phony intelligence used to induce our March 2003 invasion of Iraq has been dusted off. This time it’s being deployed to take us into Iran. Same scam. Same storyline. Same fraud—even […]

The Secrets in Israel’s Archives
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth History may be written by the victors, as Winston Churchill is said to have observed, but the opening up of archives can threaten a nation every bit as much as the […]

Isn’t Tolerance an American Virtue?
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Observing the shameful and venomous debate raging in the US over plans for a Muslim civic centre and a mosque in downtown Manhattan two blocks from Ground Zero, I could […]

Impact of Israeli Military Order No. 1650
By Stephen Lendman Located at the European University Institute (EUI), the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) conducts "inter-disciplinary and comparative research (on) major issues facing the process of integration and European society." Prepared […]

Israeli Fighters Launch 4 Attacks on Gaza
Two of the Tuesday assaults hit near Rafah and north of the city of Khan Yunis, near the border with Egypt, AFP reported, citing Palestinian security sources and witnesses. Targets near the Zeitoun district, east […]

Hezbollah Gives Hariri Evidence to Beirut
Hezbollah has provided the Lebanese government with evidence proving Israel’s involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. According to a judicial source in Lebanon, Hezbollah security chief Wafiq Safa gave Lebanese […]

Israelis Pose with Dead Palestinians
More humiliating photographs, taken by Israeli troopers and border guards, hit the internet, some featuring the servicemen posing next to dead Palestinians. The pictures, published by the Israeli human rights group, Breaking the Silence, on […]

No Room for Arab Students at Israeli Universities
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Arab counterparts have been criticised by lawyers and human rights groups. The new initiatives […]

Mr. Erdogan: Please Say No to Uribe
(An Open Letter from Gaza to Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey: Urge UN Secretary General to remove Alvaro Uribe from the Panel of Inquiry into the attack on the Humanitarian Flotilla to […]

Mr. Erdogan: Please Say No to Uribe
(An Open Letter from Gaza to Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey: Urge UN Secretary General to remove Alvaro Uribe from the Panel of Inquiry into the attack on the Humanitarian Flotilla to […]

Hamas: A Beginner’s Guide – Book Review
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal – Bonn Khaled Hroub, Hamas. A Beginner’s Guide, Pluto, 2 nd Edition, London-Ann Arbor 2010 (2006), 196 p. Israel, the United States and the European Union call Hamas a "terrorist organisation". […]

Israeli General: Flotilla Killings Low
An Israeli military panel charged with investigating the bloody takeover of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla says the death of nine civilians onboard the aid convoy is low. "They (the activists) were committed to kill and […]

US, Israel Hold Anti-guerrilla Drills
Israeli forces have carried out joint military maneuvers with US marines in the Negev desert in southern Israel as the allies up their military cooperation. The exercise was held on Saturday as part of exercises […]

‘Gaza Schools, Clinics will Be Shut’
The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees has warned that it would close schools and clinics in the Gaza Strip due to lack of funds. UNRWA spokesperson Adnan Abu Hasna said on […]

US ‘Urged to Stop Supporting Israel’
The United States has been urged to stop supporting Israel’s secret nuclear programs and to compel Tel Aviv to allow international inspections of its nuclear facilities. Arab League countries have put pressure on Washington and […]