A group of four Israeli military officials has traveled to Cairo to hold talks with Egyptian authorities on regional developments and security issues, a report says. The Egyptian al-Ahram quoted sources at the Cairo International […]
By Stuart Littlewood Law, justice, liberty and human rights, we were taught, are non-negotiable. Perhaps Obama, La Clinton, Cameron and Hague missed that important part of their education. Restore the Palestinians’ lands, homes and resources, […]
By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank Since September has past and with it the trepidation about a ‘political tsunami’, and the horrifying scripts or bleak prophesies about thousands of people from throughout the West […]
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph Van Buren Board of Education near Findlay, Ohio is holding ‘A Night to Honor Israel’ at its High School on October 27th. The sponsor of the event is nothing other than Christians […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Samir Khan was the age of my young brother. Born to reasonably well-to-do parents, he grew up in the United States and went to the best of schools in […]
By Katherine Barwick Dear Mr. President, I am neither an expert on history nor a political activist; I am just an average American who is gravely concerned about the direction I see my country taking. […]
An international aid convoy with 41 pro-Palestinian activists has reached Gaza via the Rafah border crossing to offer support and relief aid supplies to Palestinians living in the besieged territory. The humanitarian aid convoy called […]
A court has prevented Israeli nuclear whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu, from leaving Israel under the pretext that, while unconfined, he could still be a threat to Tel Aviv. Vanunu, under orders not to leave Israel and […]
The outgoing UN special coordinator for Lebanon says Israeli drones violate Lebanon’s sovereignty on an almost daily basis in blatant violation of international law. “With regard to the over-flights, these are almost daily occurrences and…It […]
By Uri Avnery An old photo from World War I shows a company of German soldiers getting on the train on their way to the front. On the wall of the car somebody had scribbled: […]
By Eyad Sarraj – Gaza A few days ago, Three American scientists have won the noble peace prize for discovering that the universe is expanding. Many American scientists are prize winners and laureates. There is […]
By James Petras The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki a U.S citizen in Yemen by a CIA drone missile on September 30 has been publicized by the mass media, President Obama and the usual experts on […]
Palestine has won a first diplomatic victory in its quest for statehood when the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation [UNESCO] executive committee backed its bid to become a member of the cultural body with […]
Gazan fishermen have protested the Israeli naval blockade that deprives them of access to natural resources in the Mediterranean Sea. The Israeli navy is threatening the livelihood of nearly 3,300 fishermen working along the 40-kilometer-long […]
By Eric Walberg The 711 coalition deaths in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan last year made 2010 the deadliest one for foreign troops since the US invasion in 2001, continuing the upward trend since 2003. […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria Why do you say that there is ‘some merit’ in Abbas’ bid while you vehemently oppose and discredit it? It’s a question many people, including journalists have challenged me with […]
By Ali Younes It should come as to no surprise that China and Russia decided to veto the European-draft resolution condemning Syria at the Security Council earlier in the week despite the swinging rhetoric that […]
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, has branded Israel as a "threat" to its region, accusing it of owning nuclear weapons, in a defence of Palestinians. "I right now see Israel as a threat for […]
Thousands of teachers on Wednesday protested at UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City over the dismissal of a union official, a Ma’an correspondent reported. The Local Staff Union called for the general strike on Wednesday, the […]
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have staged protest rallies against Washington’s unilateral support for the Israeli regime while an official US delegation is on a tour of the area. US diplomats were on their […]
The US has added action to its clear opposition to the Palestinian bid for UN membership by effectively suspending the financial assistance it had allocated to the Palestinian Authority (PA). In August, the US Congress […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara As insurrection in Syria lurches towards civil war, the brakes need to be put on the propaganda pouring through the western mainstream media and accepted uncritically by many who should […]
By Eric Walberg Radical Muslim cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, the victim of assassination by US forces 30 September, was born in New Mexico in 1971, educated at Colorado State University in engineering, and radicalised while preaching […]
As reports come in that the USA may be preparing to cut a substantial portion of the aid it gives to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if the Palestinian statehood bid is successful, people in the […]
Palestinian activists have begun a hunger strike in solidarity with thousands of their compatriots in Israeli jails, Press TV reports. During a Monday rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah, representatives of the Palestinian […]
By Ramzy Baroud United States ambassador to Syria Robert Ford is quite a feisty diplomat. He shows up unannounced and uninvited at various hot spots in the country, greeted with varying degrees of enthusiasm and, […]
Leon Panetta, the US defence secretary, has called for "bold action" from Israeli and Palestinian leaders to achieve peace after cautioning that Israel was becoming increasingly isolated in the Middle East. Panetta, on his first […]
The US Congress has reportedly decided to withhold USD 200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in response to Ramallah’s bid for UN statehood. The decision to freeze the payments was made by […]
A Palestinian prisoner in Israel’s Ashkelon jail is suffering from repeated fainting spells after taking part in a hunger strike against worsening prison conditions, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said Monday. Palestinian detainees in prisons across […]
By Georgina Reeves On Sunday night, the mosque in the small village of Tuba suffered an arson attack. Unknown agitators entered the building and set the fire, causing damage to carpets and the structure itself. […]
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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