Year: 2010

By Neve Gordon – Israel Despite the fact that it was the seventh demolition since last July, this time the destruction of the Bedouin village Al-Arakib in the Israeli Negev was different. The difference is […]

French Firm Quits Israel Rail Project

Pressure from pro-Palestinian groups has forced a French multinational firm to drop out of an Israeli light rail project that cuts into occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem). The assertion will bolster an international campaign to boycott […]

NGO Monitor War on Truth, Electronic Intifada

By Stephen Lendman NGO Monitor web site (ngo-monitor.org) says it "was founded to promote accountability, and advance a vigorous discussion on the reports and activities of NGOs claiming to promote moral agendas, such as humanitarian […]

Hezbollah Discovers Israeli Spy Devices

Israel has remotely detonated two of its spying devices in southern Lebanon after they were discovered by the Hezbollah resistance movement. At least two Lebanese were injured after the espionage devises were detonated remotely in […]

Obama’s Israel Policy: A Very Big Carrot

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Helen Thomas: Zionists Control US Foreign Policy

Renowned American author and veteran journalist Helen Thomas says the "Zionists" are in full control of the US foreign policy and its other institutions. Thomas, a former White House journalist, said Israel can never be […]

To Gaza with Humble Apologies

By Lillian Rosengarten I am a Jew symbolic of the carnage of Gaza.I will walk on the ravished desolation of destroyed livesplaces where Apache helicopters fired yet another missileon to crowds reduced to charred remains.I […]

New Language for Middle East Peace

By John V. Whitbeck The recent passage by Israel’s Knesset of a law requiring either a two-thirds Knesset majority or approval by an unprecedented national referendum before Israel can "cede" any land in expanded East […]

WikiLeaks ‘Vindicated Israel’

By Jeff Gates The U.S. is under attack by an enemy within. Skilled at game theory warfare, this foe targets the most sensitive realm of U.S. national security: its relations with other nations. The online […]

Lebanon at Stake: Turkey Must Reveal Its Cards

By Ramzy Baroud The timing of the Turkish Prime Minister’s two-day visit to Lebanon could not be more judicious. Lebanon’s enemies have been banging the drums of war louder than ever before. All the malevolent […]

Outsourcing Airport Security to the Shin Bet?

By Belen Fernandez Perhaps I am out of the loop, but is it normal in mainstream U.S. media these days to suggest that domestic airport security be outsourced to the Israeli Shin Bet? At first […]

International Day of Solidarity with Palestine

By Stephen Lendman On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 181, the Palestine Partition Plan, granting 56% of historic Palestine to Jews (with one-third of the population), 42% to Palestinians, with Jerusalem […]

UK to Ease Law for War Crimes Suspects

A new bill proposed by the British government gives the chance to war crimes suspects visiting the UK to escape without facing an arrest threat, newspaper reports said. Under proposed new laws in the Police […]

Asian Aid Convoy Set to Leave for Gaza

Asia’s first humanitarian aid convoy has begun its ground journey to the Gaza Strip, trying to break Israel’s four-year-long blockade on the coastal enclave. A group of pro-Palestine activists is set to leave India on […]

WikiLeaks Documents Benefited Israel: Turkey

Israel, as opposed to others in the Middle East, has benefited from the alleged US documents, released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks, Turkey says. "It seems to us that the country which … is not mentioned […]

Israeli Troops Kill 2 Palestinians in Gaza

The Israeli military has announced in a statement that its soldiers shot at least two Palestinians dead in the besieged Gaza Strip. The military said on Thursday that the Palestinians were killed as they were […]

UN: 80 Percent of Gazans Depend on Aid

The UN has expressed concern that more than 80 percent of the 1.5 million Palestinians in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip depend on relief supplies for their survival. On Tuesday, the director of the United Nations […]

WikiLeaks: More Israeli Game Theory Warfare?

By Jeff Gates ‘The United States is the real victim of WikiLeaks. It’s an action aimed at discrediting them.’ — Franco Frattini, Foreign Minister of Italy. The impact of the WikiLeaks release of diplomatic cables […]

Hamas Ready to Put Peace Deal to Vote

The Islamic resistance movement of Hamas says it will accept a peace deal with Israel if the Palestinian nation approves any such accord in a referendum. Palestinian democratically elected Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on […]

WikiStink

By Susan Abulhawa Over a quarter of a million diplomatic cables, marked – ‘secret’ , ‘confidential’, or ‘unclassified’ – to and from the US State Department have been ‘leaked’ to the public, presumably by a […]

‘No More Freeze in Israel Vocabulary’

The Israeli foreign minister has expressed strong opposition to any curbs on the expansion of Jewish settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian lands. Calling Israel’s partial settlement freeze in the West Bank a failure, hawkish […]

Cleaning House Essential for Mideast Peace

By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Considering that the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority have shamefully ran out of original ideas and remain deadlocked on the issue of peace negotiations, it may thus […]

Fatah ‘Tipped off’ about Gaza War

A leaked US diplomatic cable has raised the possibility that Fatah, the Palestinian group in power in the occupied West Bank, knew that Israel was planning an attack on the Gaza Strip before it launched […]

Saudi Urges IAEA to Watch Israel Nukes

Chairman of the Saudi Shura Council is calling for Israel’s nuclear facilities to be monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al Sheikh made the call on Monday on […]

Right Coalition Urges Pressure on Israel

A coalition of humanitarian groups has called for international pressure on Israel to lift its siege of the Gaza Strip as the blockade continues to persist. The group, comprised of 22 development, human rights and […]

Abbas Likens Settlements to ‘Time Bomb’

The Palestinian Authority (PA) describes Israel’s unyielding settlement activities as ‘vicious’ and a ‘time-bomb’ that threatens future talks with Tel Aviv. The acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas said in a Monday message to the United […]

Wikileaks and the New Global Order

By Jonathan Cook The Wikileaks disclosure this week of confidential cables from United States embassies has been debated chiefly in terms either of the damage to Washington’s reputation or of the questions it raises about national […]

Wikileaks: The Tel Aviv Connection

By Jeff Gates What is Tel Aviv to do now that it’s known Israelis and pro-Israelis ‘fixed’ the intelligence that induced the U.S. to war in Iraq? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me […]

Wikileaks: A Surge of Truth