By Uri Avnery – Israel The Judge: ‘You are accused of murdering your wife and two children. How do you plead: Guilty or not guilty?’ The accused: ‘Your honor, I do not deal with the […]
By Robin Yassin-Kassab Here’s a strange and sparkly, jumpy and tightly-packed little book by PULSE’s own Belen Fernandez, in which our heroines (Belen and the photographer Amelia Opalinska) hitch-hike through Lebanon and Syria a few […]
By Jonathan Cook in Jerusalem Israeli police have been criticised over their treatment of hundreds of Palestinian children, some as young as seven, arrested and interrogated on suspicion of stone-throwing in East Jerusalem. In the past year, […]
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has proposed paying compensation to relatives of Turkish citizens killed during a raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, in exchange for Turkey’s help in protecting the Israeli navy against […]
The European Union, the United Nations and the Arab League have rebuked Israel after its refusal to halt settlement construction forced Washington to drop efforts to relaunch Mideast peace talks. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on […]
By Mohammed Mar’i – Ramallah The Israeli and Arab uproar against a ruling by some 300 Jewish rabbis prohibiting the rental of homes to non-Jews, usually Arabs living inside Israel, rose on Thursday. Noah Flug, […]
By Ramzy Baroud The WikiLeaks vs. the US government saga started in July, when 77,000 secret US documents directly relating to Afghanistan were made available to major media organizations. Many of us shook our heads […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Jews must not rent homes to ‘gentiles’. That was the religious decree issued this week by at least 50 of Israel’s leading rabbis, many of them employed by the state as […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai If only Burma had oil–as much as Iraq has–perhaps Aung San Suu Kyi wouldn’t have spent nearly two decades of her life in incarceration. If Burma had been somewhere […]
By Jeff Halper Struggling as I have for the past decades to grasp the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and find ways to get out of this interminable and absolutely superfluous conflict, I have been […]
France has declared that it will recognize a free and independent Palestinian state based on borders before the 1967 war, becoming the first European nation to do so. Bernard Valero, a spokesman for the French […]
The Palestinian Authority has called for the US recognition of an independent Palestinian state in response to Israel’s refusal to stop settlement expansion on the occupied Palestinian territories. Chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Saeb Erekat […]
The acting Palestinian Authority chief says the US-backed talks with Israel are near collapse over Tel Aviv’s refusal to stop expanding Jewish settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories. Speaking during a visit to Greece on […]
Former British lawmaker George Galloway has says that an aircraft is to take humanitarian aid to the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, rallying support for the relief effort. The pro-Palestinian activist, who has headed several Gaza-bound aid […]
Israeli military bulldozers have leveled a school and forced dozens of families living in tents near the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) to evacuate. The Israeli bulldozers entered the village of Tana early […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Here we go again. Hummus is back in the news, and almost on the front pages of American newspapers. My column, titled ‘The Undeclared War on Arab Cuisine’ and […]
The United States has suspended its demand for Israel to renew a freeze on Jewish settlement building in the West Bank, throwing Palestinian-Israeli peace talks into deeper disarray. The White House and the state department […]
By Dr. Abdel-Qader Yassine If there is one thing a Palestinian cannot understand, or If he did understand cannot forgive, it is the apathy and hypocrisy with which governments in the ‘Free World’, especially in […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Professor Richard Falk put it most eloquently: ‘The idea of Nuremberg after World War Two was that crimes against the peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes are also offences […]
Argentina has recognised Palestine as a "free and independent state," just days after neighbouring Brazil announced that it would "legitimate aspiration of the Palestinian people for a secure, united, democratic and economically viable state co-existing […]
A fire that killed 41 people and ravaged big swaths of forest in northern Israel’s Carmel region has been extinguished, police have said. "All of the fires were officially extinguished as of midnight," Mickey Rosenfeld, […]
By Sam Bahour The United States is at a crossroads in its mediation of Middle East peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians. The Obama administration can no longer walk on the Israeli side of the […]
By Ira Glunts Three years ago I heard the American-born Israeli Michael B. Oren promoting his new book Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present at a university near […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. The acting president of the Palestinian National Authority (PA) chose an appropriate setting to issue his latest impassioned plea. Himself in political limbo, running on the fumes of an […]
By M. Shahid Alam Was there ever a time when a leading organ of the US media could speak the unvarnished truth about the links between the United States and Israel? Consider this quote from […]
By George Polley (Breakthrough: Transforming Fear Into Compassion, a new perspective on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Insight Press, Albuquerque, NM, November 2010. Paperback.) Richard Forer is a certified practitioner of the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method. I […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London One of the most grotesque Wikileaks revelations so far is the disclosure that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was told in advance about the murderous assault on his countrymen in […]
Israeli settlers have set fire to Palestinian olive groves near the evacuated illegal settlement of Homesh, near the West Bank city of Nablus. The Thursday incident was confirmed by a Palestinian Authority (PA) official, Ghasan […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appealed for international help to fight a massive forest fire out of control in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Describing the blaze as an "unprecedented disaster," Netanyahu said […]
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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