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Month: October 2011
Prisoners Society: 9 Female Detainees Not Included in Deal
The Palestinian prisoners society on Sunday released the names of 9 female detainees it said are not included in the prisoner exchange set to take place on Tuesday. Suad Ahmad Abdul Raouf, Lina Ahmad al-Jarbuni, […]
Israel Names 477 Prisoners to Be Released
Israel has published a list of 477 Palestinian prisoners to be released in the first stage of a swap deal for the captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The list, released on Sunday by Israel’s justice […]
UN Chief: Israeli Settlement Plans Must Cease
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has condemned reports of Israeli plans to build more than 2,600 housing units in illegally occupied East Jerusalem, saying further settlement activity was "unacceptable". "The secretary-general is deeply concerned at […]
10 Reasons Not to Honor Israel
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph and Tammy Obeidallah This list was compiled in order to dispel the hate propaganda and blatant lies Christians United for Israel (CUFI) is being allowed to spew at Van Buren High School […]
Back to Basics in Palestine: Time for Unity, Synergy and Mobilization
(The following is a condensed version of Susan Abulhawa’s speech at the Al-Awda Center grand opening) By Susan Abulhawa Summary: Susan Abulhawa presents an argument to abandon all negotiations with Israel and to abandon calls […]
Hamas Website Lists Prisoners to Be Freed
A website allied to Hamas, the Palestinian faction which governs the Gaza Strip, has released a list of Palestinian prisoners it expects to be freed from Israeli jails as part of an exchange deal between […]
Where Did Herzl Go Wrong?
By Uri Avnery On Yom Kippur eve last week, when real Jews were praying for their lives, I sat on the seashore of Tel Aviv, thinking. It was my first Yom Kippur without Rachel, and […]
Israel to Build 1,000s more Settler Units
Israel has announced plans to build thousands of new settler units in occupied East Jerusalem showing disregard for agreements reached with the Palestinian Authority. Israel’s Lands Administration has released a plan to construct 2,610 new […]
US Opposes Israeli Plan to Legalize Outposts
The US has said it opposes "any effort to legalize" illegal settlement outposts on Palestinian land, after the Israeli government set up a panel to explore ways to do so. Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime […]
Fatah Official Says Meeting with Hamas Chief ‘Positive’
Fatah leader Azzam al-Ahmad said Wednesday that his meeting in Cairo with Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal was "positive" and that reconciliation talks would restart "soon." Al-Ahmad, who heads the Fatah delegation in talks with Hamas, […]
Israeli Settlers Attack Girls School in WB
Israeli settlers have attacked a girls’ school in the West Bank as Israel steps up violence against Palestinians in the occupied territories. The incident occurred on Thursday when a group of Israeli settlers raided Kortoba […]
Targeting Iran: US Playing the Saudi Envoy Game
By Ismail Salami In a ‘united against Iran campaign,’ the US government has accused Tehran of orchestrating an assassination plot against the Saudi envoy in Washington, a move which is to be seen as part […]
Occupy Wall Street: ‘We Are All Americans Now’
By Eric Walberg – Cairo The current crisis of capitalism is textbook Marx. Greedy capitalists, craven politicians, scheming bankers, dispossessed masses. It is also textbook Lenin. Imperial wars awakening the masses to revolt – though […]
Iranian Plot More Fantastical Than Real
By Ali Younes – Washington, D.C. The alleged Iranian assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Adil Al Jubiar can be described as the dumbest covert operation in the history of intelligence. […]
The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
By Alison Weir To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel’s birth is that […]
Families Relieved by Prisoner Swap
Palestinian families are eagerly awaiting the publication of the names of the more than 1,000 detainees that are to be released in a ground-breaking prisoner swap deal with Israel. The Israeli cabinet approved the agreement […]
2,000 Palestinian Inmates Join Hunger Strike
As many as 2,000 Palestinian prisoners have joined a hunger strike staged by their fellow Palestinian inmates to assert innocence and protest at miserable confinement conditions in Israeli jails. Those newly on the strike action […]
Families Prepare for Hamas-Israel Swap Deal
Families of Palestinian prisoners and Gilad Shalit are preparing for the return of their relatives, a day after Hamas and Israel reached a historic deal freeing 1,027 Palestinians in exchange for the Israeli soldier. No […]
‘Champion of Israel’ in UK Cabinet Self-destructs
By Stuart Littlewood The dodgy relationship between Britain’s defence secretary, Dr Liam Fox, and his friend Adam Werrity has been entertaining the media and public here for the last several days. Werrity, a onetime flat-mate […]
Massacre in Maspero: The Second Egyptian Uprising
By Ahmed Amr – Cairo The thrill is gone, the euphoria has faded and our mass delusions have been swept away to make room for the reality that there never was an Egyptian revolution. Eight […]
‘Price Tag’: Israel Lays Ground for Anti-apartheid Struggle
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Jewish far-right groups responsible for a series of arson attacks on West Bank mosques over the past year broke dangerous ground last week when they turned their attention for the first […]
Hamas, Israel Reach Deal to Exchange Prisoners
Israel and Hamas agreed Tuesday to swap more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for Israeli captive soldier Gilad Shalit, resolving one of the most emotive and intractable issues between them. Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said Israel […]
Israel Mulls ‘Legalizing Settler Outposts’
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has asked for a taskforce to be set up to look at ways to legalize houses in illegal settlements that are built on private Palestinian land, according to Israeli […]
UN: Israel Must Prevent Settler Attacks
The United Nations human rights office called on Israel today to stop attacks by settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, citing a spike in violence in recent weeks resulting in serious physical […]
Israelis Burn 100 Trees Near Bethlehem
Israeli settlers have burned more than 100 olive and fig trees on farmland near the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, witnesses say. The incident took place on Tuesday in the Palestinian village […]
Afghanistan: Ten Years of Tragedy and Misguided Policy
By Ramzy Baroud On July 1 2002, US planes bombed an Afghan wedding in the small village of Deh Rawud. Located to the north of Kandahar, the village seemed fortified by the region’s many mountains. […]
Occupy Wall Street: Rumble from the People
By Ralph Nader Inside the barricading bubbles surrounding the Wall Street plutocrats and the Washington oligarchs who service them, there must be worry. After three years of disclosed ‘lying, cheating and stealing’ as one prosecutor […]
Health of PFLP Leader on Hunger Strike ‘Very Worrying’
Fears are growing about the health of imprisoned PFLP leader Ahmad Saadat, as Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails entered day 14 of a hunger strike sparked by Saadat’s solitary confinement. Head of the Palestinian Prisoners’ […]
Quartet Pledges to Restart Middle East Talks
Diplomats representing the Middle East Quartet – the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia – have agreed to encourage the Palestinians and Israel to return to direct talks. After discussions in Brussels on […]
Israelis Plan Major October Protests
Israeli protest organizers say they have planned two mass demonstrations in Tel Aviv this month to protest the policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The protest rallies are scheduled for October 15 and 29, the […]