The Israeli regime would likely ask Washington for billions of dollars in the wake of revolutions and anti-government protests across the Middle East and North Africa. “Israel may seek an additional USD 20 billion in […]
By Issa Khalaf In the Palestine Chronicle comments by Dr. Saeb Erekat, (‘Palestine Papers Revealed Nothing: A Response to Ramzy Baroud‘), he writes, "The issues discussed were mechanisms by which Palestinian rights would be realized, […]
Palestinian Authority (PA) caretaker Prime Minister Salam Feyadh has said that Palestinians should form a unity government with the participation of both Hamas and Fatah. Feyadh said that he had reached the conclusion after studying […]
Israel has given the green light for the resumption of the construction work on an access ramp to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The East al-Quds (Jerusalem) municipality said on Sunday that the building of the […]
Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian fields in a village north of the West Bank, injuring at least 10 Palestinian residents. Clashes erupted after a large group of settlers began uprooting olive trees in Palestinian fields […]
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has reiterated his country’s support for the recognition of the independent state of Palestine during his first official visit to the Palestinian territories. “Now Palestine has its embassy in Chile and […]
Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics says illegal settlement construction in the occupied West bank has climbed sharply in the past five months. The data, released by the bureau on Saturday, indicates that the Israeli regime […]
Gazan truck drivers have blocked entry to the remaining commercial crossing in Gaza, calling on Israel to reopen the other crossing that it closed last week. The union of commercial transportation drivers went on strike […]
By Sherri Muzher When I was a kid, I was often asked what my nationality was. Was I Italian? Was I Greek? The answer was none of the above. “I’m Palestinian,” I would respond with […]
By Eugene Sigaloff Those twangy voices,American voices,Voices like billiard balls,Voices like crew cuts:“Request permission to engage.”“Roger that … You are free to engage.”Voices like bullets.Permission to engage is granted,Permission granted to “light ‘em all up.” […]
By Terry Wolfwood At the Algeria conference on Palestinian Political Prisoners I met a desperate father, Samir Asfour. He told me the story of his son. Ahmad was a 17 year old student when he […]
By Fidel Castro When at just 27 years old Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as […]
The Lebanese army has said that an Israeli reconnaissance plane has breached the country’s airspace in violation of a UN Security Council resolution. A statement issued by the army says an unmanned, remote-controlled Israeli aircraft […]
By Stuart Littlewood After maintaining a deafening silence about Israel’s atrocities against civilians, Britain suddenly wants a ‘day of reckoning’ for war criminals – as long as they are Libyan. While protestors’ attempts to oust […]
By Mohannad El-Khairy If the 2011 Arab Revolution highlights anything, it is the Arab masses’ refusal to accept their disenfranchisement at the expense of the ruling corprotocracy, the corporate-political class that continues to aggrandize itself […]
By Uri Avnery Of all the memorable phrases uttered by Barack Obama in the last two years, the one that stuck in my mind more than any other appeared in his historic speech in Cairo […]
By Stuart Littlewood Congratulations, BDS campaigners. Your global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions effort is hurting Israel so much that panic-stricken propaganda bosses are casting about in desperation for something to hit back with… for example, […]
The number of cancer patients has been climbing in Gaza due to the use of depleted uranium by the Israeli military during its onslaught on the impoverished enclave two years ago, medical sources say. After […]
By William A. Cook ‘Calls for democracy … stem from …an inner hunger for freedom.’ — (Tzipi Livni, Washington Post, 2/24/11) A beacon is a signal fire, a warning light to guide one out of […]
A senior United Nations official today called for ‘credible and effective international intervention’ to break the impasse in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, noting that a negotiated solution would help stabilize a Middle […]
The White House has announced that Yemeni ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh has apologized to the US and Israel for previously blaming the recent uprisings in his country on them. In a telephone call to Washington […]
Israeli forces have rearrested a Hamas legislator, Azzam Salhab, outside the occupied southern West Bank town of al-Khalil (Hebron). Salhab, 54, who was released from prison five months ago, was once again arrested along with […]
By Ramzy Baroud When the Libyan people took on their reviled dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, Israeli officials seemed puzzled by the alarming and unprecedented trend of popular awakenings in the Arab world. Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor […]
By James Petras Most accounts of the Arab revolts from Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq and elsewhere have focused on the most immediate causes: political dictatorships, unemployment, repression and the wounding and […]
Israel is reportedly planning to launch a new war to strengthen its position in the Middle East, following recent political reforms in regional states. A Western diplomat in the Jordanian capital Amman said on Wednesday […]
Despite worldwide calls for an end to the expansion of Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land, Israel has approved the construction of more settlement units in East al-Quds (Jerusalem). Israeli officials on Wednesday approved the […]
The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People is to address the plight of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons and detention facilities. The committee’s next meeting, which will […]
An Israeli diplomat has resigned in protest to the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Ilan Baruch, who served at Israel’s foreign ministry, said he opted to resign from […]
The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas has harshly condemned the brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protesters in Libya. Hamas, the democratically-elected Palestinian government in Gaza, denounced the killings of pro-democracy protesters by forces loyal to Libyan […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. The spark that the impoverished Tunisian fruit peddler, Mohammed Bouazizi, lit in his self-immolation act in protest for his mistreatment and humiliation by a policewoman is still ablaze within […]
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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