The Palestinian team responsible for preparing the UN initiative in September recently obtained an independent legal opinion that reveals a high risk involved with the plan to join the UN. The UN initiative to transfer […]
By Tammy Obeidallah The latest round of atrocities unleashed upon Palestinians proves yet again that the Israeli government is a homicidal opportunist. Instantly, the problem of mass demonstrations deploring increased cost of living and other […]
By Franklin Lamb – Tripoli The large gold framed portrait of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi that adorned the wall behind the reception desk of my hotel since it opened many years ago has vanished. Also gone […]
The Israeli government expressed shock over the Spanish foreign minister’s call for a pan-European push towards the UN’s recognition of an independent Palestinian state. Tel Aviv formally protested on Monday Trinidad Jimenez’s recent expression of […]
The United Nations has for the third time postponed the release of a report on Israel’s deadly attack on the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla in 2010. The UN’s findings about the brutal incident, which left […]
Israel plans to expel 384 Palestinian activists from East al-Quds (Jerusalem) on grounds of their activities in the occupied land. Some of the activists say they have been threatened to be exiled from al-Quds after […]
By Ali Younes In their stealthy and coordinated advance on the Libyan capital Tripoli last Sunday, the Libyan rebels transformed their 8 months uprising from indecisive low-intensity war into the possibility of an imminent victory […]
President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree on Monday postponing local West Bank elections scheduled for October 22. The presidential decree postpones elections "until appropriate circumstances" exist, the statement said, and gives time "to provide the […]
Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip fired several rockets into southern Israel overnight, according to Israeli police, as a Hamas official said Palestinian factions and Israel had agreed to observe a ceasefire after three days […]
By Richard Lightbown ‘The location of the Freedom Theatre […is] in the middle of the most attacked and poorest refugee camp in Palestine, the refugee camp of Jenin. We are talking about almost three thousand […]
Cross-border exchanges of air strikes and rocket attacks between Israel and the Gaza Strip have continued for a third day, as Hamas, the Palestinian group that controls Gaza, announced it was seeking a ceasefire. At […]
Representatives of Arab League states have condemned "the Israeli attack on the Egyptian forces" saying that Israel bears "full responsibility for this crime". Permanent members of the league issued the statement blasting Israel on Sunday […]
Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs hopes that the European Union foreign ministers meeting in early September will bring progress along the road toward the recognition of a Palestinian state. "There’s the feeling that now is […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan In the last three decades, important changes have taken place in the world including new means of communications that made it possible for people to be culturally plugged into distant places […]
By Nath Aldalala’a The Trial of the ‘Pharaoh on the Nile’ captured the imagination of the street in Egypt and beyond. For the second time the ousted leader Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Monday 15th […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. It’s a contest that no revolutionary wants to enter: most ignored. Although Western backing hasn’t generated decisive victory for Libyans or Syrians, these revolutionaries would presumably pass on swapping with […]
By Issa Khalaf It’s been since May that we’ve heard Fatah-Hamas reconciliation via an interim unity government leading to elections in 2012, is imminent. Actually, reconciliation has been impending since 2007. Nothing materialized by way of […]
By Richard Lightbown Two terror attacks in southern Israel on Thursday 18 August caught the army by surprise despite having received a large number of warnings. The official story is that members of the Popular […]
By Mohammed Bsiso History is a very powerful political tool that if wielded correctly can produce far-reaching results. Unfortunately, Zionists and their supporters in the West have long consolidated their control on the historical narrative […]
Israeli warplanes killed three Palestinians in an airstrike in central Gaza City late Friday, medics said, raising the death toll to 14 in the coastal enclave since a deadly attack in southern Israel on Thursday. […]
By Uri Avnery Since the beginning of the conflict, the extremists of both sides have always played into each other’s hands. The cooperation between them was always much more effective than the ties between the […]
The Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that they were no longer committed to its de facto ceasefire with Israel in effect since more than two years ago. "There is no longer any […]
Egypt has lodged an official protest to Israel demanding an investigation into the killings of three security officials during an Israeli military operation near the border, Egyptian state media reported. "Egypt filed an official complaint […]
Israeli fighter jets have targeted a building in the city of Rafah in the south of Gaza Strip, killing at least seven Palestinians. The Palestinian fatalities caused on Thursday include a nine-year-old boy and a […]
By Tamar Fleishman At the break of dawn of every Friday during the Ramadan month world orders change. From that moment on the laws that regulate the occupation at Qalandiya all these years, every day […]
By Kiera Feldman Once, in the bulk goods aisle of the Park Slope Food Coop, a wild-haired woman stood next to me and scrutinized the coffee-grinder settings. ‘I’m using it for an enema,’ she explained. […]
By Mohamed El Mokhtar The regime of El Assad seems dangerously engaged in a losing battle. Its over-reactive response to the growing popular demand for democratic change betrays a lack of vision typical of another […]
An Israeli air strike on the Gaza town of Rafah has killed six people, Palestinian medics and news agencies said, just hours after a series of deadly attacks in southern Israel. Israeli military sources confirmed […]
Israel says it will stick to its refusal to apologise to Turkey for killing nine of its citizens on a Gaza-bound aid ship, an Israeli official has said. Wednesday’s announcement, which the official said Prime […]
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has confirmed rumors that talks are taking place in Cairo between Israel and Hamas to negotiate a prisoner swap, the Israel daily Haaretz reported Tuesday. London based Al-Hayat newspaper had […]
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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