Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he intends to make conditions tougher for Palestinian prisoners. "I have decided to change Israel’s treatment of terrorists sitting in prison," Netanyahu said in a speech at […]
By Richard Irvine Recently I often think I have entered a parallel universe. One where the illegal is legal; the victim the criminal; where Goliath defends himself from David. Palestinians have of course endured this experience […]
By Samah Sabawi I was 12 years old when for the first time in my life I became a citizen of a country – Australia. Before that, I was a stateless Palestinian refugee. There were […]
By Stuart Littlewood In 2008 two humanitarian vessels got through to Gaza. In an article entitled ‘Keeping the Sea-Lane to Gaza Open’, I wrote: "The success of the ‘Free Gaza’ boats in breaking the siege, […]
By Ramzy Baroud Many commentators today are basing the success of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the June 12 elections largely on its ability to guide the country through a decade of remarkable […]
By Medea Benjamin ‘I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him,’ said Dr. Martin Luther King […]
Israel’s deputy foreign minister said Wednesday that "Israel has recognized a Palestinian state and is ready to sit with the Palestinians to reach an understanding on the condition that there will be no outside intervention […]
Israeli troops have increased demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank this year, leaving over 700 people homeless, a rights group says. Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said in a statement on Wednesday that […]
Israel has called on Apple to "immediately remove" from its store an application calling for a third Palestinian Intifada (uprising) against Israel, a report says. The Israeli Public Affairs Ministry informed Apple CEO Steve Jobs […]
Israeli and Turkish officials have been holding US-backed secret direct talks to ease tensions between the two sides, an Israeli official has said. A source in the Turkish Foreign Ministry and a US official confirmed […]
Palestinians have held a demonstration in front of the UN office in the Gaza Strip to mark World Refugee Day and demand that the international community fulfill its responsibility toward the Palestinian refugees. Pro-Palestine activists […]
Head of Israel’s Nuclear Energy Commission Shaul Horev says Tel Aviv has returned nuclear waste from its Sorek nuclear reactor to the United States. Horev, who spoke at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ministerial […]
By Vittorio Arrigoni (This article was originally published at Vittorio Arrigoni’s blog Guerrilla Radio. Translated by Daniela Loffreda.) Her eyes are as deep as unexplored oceans and her movements are done with the grace of […]
By Sam Bahour For anyone closely following the Palestinian-Israeli issue, nothing is more insulting than the world’s political players peddling another peace initiative, crusaded as the ultimate formula to extract the conflict from its current […]
By Stuart Littlewood Kairos Palestine, the voice of Palestinian Christians, has given the Archbishop of Canterbury a strong ticking-off for remarks he made during a BBC interview. Rifat Kassis, co-ordinator of Kairos Palestine, said he […]
By Theresa Wolfwood (Barghouti, Omar. BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. 2011. Haymarket Books, USA.) "The BDS campaign is among the most important forms of such ‘resolute struggle’ by the great […]
A European aid convoy with 53 pro-Palestinian activists has entered the Gaza Strip via the Rafah border crossing to help ease the conditions of Palestinians in the coastal sliver. The humanitarian aid convoy, called “Miles […]
Salam Fayyad will announce his intention to refuse to head the new unity government if he is offered the post, sources close to the appointed West Bank Prime Minister told Ma’an. Fayyad has publicly said […]
Israel’s Navy says it will not allow a new international flotilla of ships to break the blockade on the impoverished Gaza Strip and reached the coastal sliver. Speaking at a ceremony marking the completion of […]
By Jane Hirschmann People often ask me why I am part of a team to organize a U.S. Boat to Gaza that will be sailing this month with the next International Flotilla to break the […]
‘Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” — George Orwell, ‘Politics and the English Language.’ By Roger Sheety "On […]
Israel is objecting to the release of dozens of Palestinian prisoners with life sentences to their homes in the occupied West Bank in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier, Ma’an has learned. Under a new […]
Acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas has called on the European Union to recognize Palestine as an independent state based on the 1967 borders. "We are calling on the European Union to help us […]
By Ralph Nader The meticulous Harvard Law Review editors should be rolling over in their footnotes. The recidivist violations of constitutional and statutory requirements by their celebrated predecessor at that journal – Barack Obama has […]
Israel says it has reaped more benefit from its arms sales in 2010, earning more than USD seven billion, despite the worldwide financial crisis. "Despite the global economic crisis, Israel’s military industries have experienced a […]
An unnamed high-ranking Israeli military source has warned against any potential seaborne attempt by pro-Palestinian activists to deliver humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. "No ship will get into Gaza," the source was quoted […]
By Dr. Mohsen M. Saleh When the 12-year-old ‘Imad saw his mother prepare some sandwiches, which they can have during the march on 15/5/2011 to the southern Lebanese borders with Palestine, he wondered in surprise, […]
The United Nations-backed Summer Games for children have begun in the Gaza Strip in an annual attempt by its organizers to “give the kids of Gaza a chance to be kids.” For five years the […]
By Kathy Kelly In Late June 2011, I’m going to be a passenger on ‘The Audacity of Hope,’ the USA boat in this summer’s international flotilla to break the illegal and deadly Israeli siege of […]
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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