By Tammy Obeidallah New York Congressman Pete King served as ringmaster at the latest congressional circus looking into Muslim ‘radicalization’ and its perceived threat to the Homeland. Unfortunately, I was not invited to testify at […]
By Ralph Nader The tumultuous managerial shakeup at National Public Radio headquarters for trivial verbal miscues once again has highlighted the ludicrous corporatist right-wing charge that public radio and public TV are replete with left-leaning […]
The United States has dismissed as ‘illegitimate’ a decision by Israel to construct hundreds more illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. “Washington was deeply concerned by continuing Israeli actions with respect to settlements in […]
By Oliver Loode Estonia will mark the 20th anniversary of the restoration of its independence in August of this year. It will be a major milestone in a remarkable year – one that brought the […]
The Israeli cabinet has approved the building of hundreds of new homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, a day after five members of a settlement family were killed. The Israeli prime minister’s […]
Five Israelis, who according to media reports were all members of the same family, have been killed in an overnight attack on a West Bank settlement. Israeli army officials said on Saturday that a Palestinian […]
By Richard Lightbown Press TV on 4 March 2011 reported that cancer cases in Gaza had increased by 30 per cent, and that there was a link between the occurrence of the disease and residence […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has condemned Israel’s approval of a plan to construct hundreds more illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territories. Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat says the PA "strongly condemns the decision of the […]
By Ibrahim Shikaki For many outside Palestine this analogy might not make any sense, since strawberries and cherries are both available throughout the year. In Palestine, like in many ‘developing’ countries, we eat in season; […]
Thousands of Palestinians around the globe have endorsed an online campaign, calling for a ‘third Intifada’ against Israel in order to free Palestine. As many as 52,000 Facebook users have ‘liked’ a page saying "Palestine […]
Foreign diplomats in Israel say Israeli settlers have given them threatening letters over their respective countries’ criticism of Jewish settlements in the occupied lands. Diplomatic sources at several foreign missions in al-Quds (East Jerusalem) and […]
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have held a rally, calling for reconciliation between the political groups and a national unity government. Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza from various political factions took to the streets on […]
By Nicola Nasser When allowed to turn freely, the metaphoric Palestinian compass points in one direction — that of Palestinian struggle. But most of the time, someone is interfering with this compass, rigging it to […]
By Seraj Assi ‘They whom got shy died,’ goes the Arab proverb. In Hebrew they call it Chutzpah, that is, the quality of extreme audacity. Nowhere is Israel’s Chutzpah more acute than in the story […]
By Uri Avnery Jerusalem is abuzz with brilliant new ideas. The brightest minds of our political establishment are grappling with the problems created by the ongoing Arab revolution that is reshaping the landscape around us. […]
The organization in charge of reconstruction in Gaza has placed orders for construction materials to international bodies to help break the Israeli siege on the coastal strip. Israel waged a 22-day war on the Gaza […]
The representatives of various Palestinian factions have held a meeting in the Gaza Strip to end the political divisions and discuss national reconciliation. The Wednesday meeting came in light of the ongoing developments in the […]
By Philip Giraldi J Street is seductive. Americans have been bombarded with propaganda about Israel ever since the foundation of the country over sixty years ago. More recently, the United States has been designated by […]
Hezbollah has warned that the US-backed UN court, alleging to investigate former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri’s murder, serves to mount an assault on the Lebanese nation. On Thursday, the Lebanese resistance movement’s Deputy Secretary General […]
By Sajida Tasneem As Egyptian people continue their struggle for democracy, one month on since Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down as President of Egypt on 11 February, 2011, the unleashing of a democratic […]
Embattled Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi has compared his brutal crackdown on protesters with Israel’s 2009 war on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Gaddafi, whose crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators have so far left thousands of people […]
By Ramzy Baroud A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a political or economic sense– it is, […]
The cancer started in Fatima Hassami’s breast before spreading to her bones, leading to multiple fractures in her left leg and constant pain for the 70-year-old. “I feel so sorry for my mother,” her daughter […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel would refuse to withdraw its forces from major areas of the future Palestinian state. Describing the Jordan Valley as “Israel’s line of defense,” Netanyahu said Tuesday that the […]
By James Gundun, Washington, D.C. Sharing a boat as they float through the Middle East’s ongoing transformation, Israel has faced the same crunch-time decision as America – ride the movement out in front or try […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Where is Barack Hussein Obama? Why hasn’t he done anything sooner and tangible to reassure the hundreds of thousands of freedom fighters marching in the Arab streets, from […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisers conceded last week that the Israeli prime minister is more downcast than they have ever seen him. The reason for his gloominess is to be found in Israel’s […]
The complete closure of Karni crossing on the Israel-Gaza border announced on 2 March will make the delivery of food aid to Gaza more difficult, according to UN agencies assisting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip […]
The people of Turkey regard the United States and Israel as their main enemies, the results of an opinion poll suggest. A total of 2,000 Turkish people took part in the opinion poll conducted by […]
By Yacov Ben Efrat It so happens that the week of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia was also a week of internal Israeli shenanigans. Defense Minister Ehud Barak resigned from the Labor Party and established […]
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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