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Year: 2010

Hundreds Attend Palestinians’ Funeral
A large number of Palestinian people have participated in the funeral of five Palestinians who were killed by an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of people attended the funeral in Deir-al Balah in […]

Turkey Summons Israeli Envoy
Turkey has summoned the Israeli envoy to protest a deal between Tel Aviv and Cyprus over "economic rights in the Mediterranean," officials and media reports say. Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned Ambassador Gaby Levy on Thursday, […]

Arabs to Take Israel Defiance to UN
Arab countries will submit a draft resolution to the UN, protesting Israel’s defiant construction of illegal settlements on the occupied Palestinian lands. Nabil Shaath, a Palestinian negotiator said on Saturday that the draft would be […]

Israel’s Ship of Fools 2
By Uri Avnery The expression ‘Ship of Fools’ was used by a Swiss theologian 515 years ago as the title of a book harshly criticizing the Catholic church of his day. Its licentiousness, he foresaw, […]

What H. Res. 1765 Tells Us About the Peace Camp?
By Sama Adnan As House Resolution 1765, formerly 1731 and 1734, passed in the House by a voice vote enjoining the Obama administration to oppose a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence, the peace camp looked […]

Nazi Crimes as Ideological Cover for Israeli Crimes
By Yves Engler – Ottawa Last week, Canada’s House of Commons unanimously passed a private member’s bill to establish a national Holocaust monument. While it is a good thing to commemorate the suffering of Jews […]

A Doctor in Galilee
By George Polley (A Doctor in Galilee: The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel. Hatim Kanaaneh. Foreword by Jonathan Cook. Pluto Press, 2008) Hatim Kanaaneh is the kind of physician I enjoyed working […]

Israel’s Jerusalem Master Plan 2020
By Stephen Lendman A November 10 Qatar News Agency article headlined, "Israel Plans to Rebuild Old Jerusalem – Palestinian Official," stated: Attorney Ahmed Al-Ruwaidi, "responsible for the Jerusalem unit in the Palestinian Authority (PA), said […]

Arabs Rule out New Peace Talks
Arab foreign ministers have said there will be no more negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis unless the United States makes a "serious offer" for resolving the conflict. "The negotiation track between the Palestinians and […]

Insisting on Their Humanity: ‘The Plight of the Palestinians’
By Ramzy Baroud When a copy of William A. Cook’s latest book, The Plight of the Palestinians arrived in my mailbox, I initially felt a little worried. The volume, featuring the work of over 30 […]

Flotilla II’s Departure Time Set
International activists are to reach Gaza next year under the banner of Freedom Flotilla II after a first such fleet came under a deadly Israeli attack. The seaborne convoy is to sail to the beleaguered […]

‘Israel Involved in Kosovo Organ Trade’
A European Union prosecutor who says Israel has been trading with an elaborate organ trafficking network in Kosovo has brought the case to Pristina District Court, a report says. Jonathan Ratel, who serves in Kosovo […]

Israel Eying Free US F-35 Fighter Jets
Despite rejecting US calls for extending a partial settlement freeze on the occupied Palestinian territories, Israel is still looking to acquire another 20 US-built F-35 fighter jets free of charge. Earlier in November, the United […]

One Way out for the Palestinians
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. When President Barack Obama described the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections last month as a “shellacking,” he was praised for his outright admission […]

Apartheid Law: Keeping Jews and Arabs Apart
By Jonathan Cook – Katzir The pretty two-storey home with a red-tiled roof built by Adel and Iman Kaadan looks no different from the rows of other houses in Katzir, a small hilltop community in northern […]

Al Wehdat and Faisali: The Tip of the Iceberg
By Tammy Obeidallah ‘Stop criticizing us—just look at how your own kind treats you.’ This cliché, so often sneered by Israelis and their apologists, attempts to downplay the occupation of Palestine and to make Palestinians […]

US Nakedness: Zero Consequence for Israel
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria Noam Chomsky calls it one of the most humiliating moments in US diplomatic history. Sam Bahour refers to it as a dead end. Both are referring to President Obama’s pathetic […]

Israel Bars Entry to West Bank Firemen
Israel has barred a group of Palestinian firefighters from attending a ceremony where they were to be honoured for their help in battling a deadly forest fire last week. At least 10 Palestinians were invited […]

EU Shelves Recognition of Palestine
Foreign ministers from the European Union have said they would recognise a Palestinian state "when appropriate". The ministers’ declaration on Monday followed a call from Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, for the […]

Hamas Holds Massive Gaza Rally
Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters have filled the streets of Gaza City in a mass rally to boost support for the Palestinian resistance group on its 23rd anniversary. Cars and buildings were adorned in […]

Israel: Settlements Not an Obstacle
Israel’s ambassador to the US has said that settlement building has never been an obstacle to making peace, just days after Washington ended attempts to push the Israelis into extending a moratorium on building the […]

Netanyahu Rules out Jerusalem Split
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has made clear that comments by the country’s defence minister, in favour of dividing Jerusalem between Israelis and Arabs were not the policy of the Israeli government. "Ehud Barak’s […]

Israel Frees Leader of Islamic Movement
The leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel has been released from prison after serving a five-month prison sentence. Raed Salah was convicted of assault in July for an incident that took place in 2007 […]

Two Palestinian Killed in Gaza Border Clash
Two Palestinians have been killed and an Israeli soldier wounded in an exchange of gunfire near the border of the Gaza Strip with Israel. The Israeli army said in a statement that the two Palestinians […]

Out of Failure, a Chance for Justice
By William A. Cook Philip Crowley, speaking for the State Department, seemed to imply a new beginning for the US as it halted the peace negotiations it had started last May, when he noted there […]

Felicia Langer’s Ongoing Fight for Justice
By Ludwig Watzal – Bonn Last week, the German-Israeli human rights lawyer, Felicia Langer celebrated her 80th birthday in the German town of Tuebingen. Ms Langer was born in Poland. When Nazi-Germany attacked Poland in […]

Hamas Does Not Oppress Women
By Dr. Ahmed Yousef – Gaza Since the creation of Hamas in 1987, its election through the Change and Reform bloc in 2006, and the failed Fatah-led coup attempt in 2007 that left it and […]

Dissolve the Palestinian Authority
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan On September 9, 1993, Yasser Arafat, the PLO chief, signed a letter addressed to Yitzhak Rabin accepting UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 and recognizing the right of Israel to […]

We Need Peace, Not Just Process
By The Elders For nearly two decades, there have been peace processes in the Middle East but no peace. In our recent visits to four countries across the region and the occupied Palestinian territory, we […]

And What Will Santa Bring the Kiddies of Gaza?
By Stuart Littlewood – London Rarely do I enter a church unless it’s to admire the medieval architecture, a soaring testament to man’s faith in a more dangerous and uncertain age. One reason being that […]