The number of Palestinians displaced by Israeli demolitions this year has already more than doubled that of 2010, UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said Monday. Research by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees found that 990 […]
Israeli ministers have hit back at US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the top American diplomat was quoted expressing concern over the future of Israel’s democracy and the rights of women. Clinton’s remarks on Saturday, […]
By Deepak Tripathi Perils of brinkmanship with Iran are now on open display. As Libyans struggle after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, and the rebellion against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria continues, the campaign […]
Reviewed Jim Miles (Jewish Identity & Palestinian Rights – Diaspora Jewish Opposition to Israel. David Landy. Z Books, London/New York, 2011.) The mainstream media does not cover this kind of topic and only hints at […]
Leon Panetta, US defence secretary, has urged Israel to go back to the negotiating table with Palestinians and to address what he described as the country’s growing isolation in the Middle East. In remarks made at […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara The report just issued by the UN Human Rights Council’s ‘independent international commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic’ is now being passed along the line to the UN […]
The United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees said it has formed a partnership with a renowned architect to build 20 environmentally-friendly schools in the Gaza Strip. The blueprint for the “environmental zero impact” schools to […]
New video has emerged showing Israeli soldiers beating a handcuffed Palestinian teenage boy, threatening to break his legs and arms during interrogation.. Reports say that the teenager who has been identified as Mohammed might be […]
By Uri Avnery In the middle of the ’80s, a German diplomat conveyed to me a surprising message. A member of the Jordanian Royal family would like to speak with me in Amman. At the […]
By Lillian Rosengarten I ask, how can Israel finds freedom as occupier?Two occupations and a faux MuseumSits on desecrated tombs. They call it Museum of Tolerance, I call itEthnic cleansing, killer of those deemed inferior. False prophets, […]
By Stuart Littlewood The gung-ho leadership of the British government, fresh from their heroic ‘liberation’ of Libya (and never mind the mega-deaths and wholesale destruction), are now itching for a fight with Iran, it seems. […]
President Mahmoud Abbas recently provided representatives of the Middle East Quartet with a new proposal on the borders of a future Palestinian state, Israeli media reported Thursday. The proposal included the border and security arrangements […]
Former Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer has described Israel’s security situation as ‘more catastrophic than ever before, ‘urging a major hike in Tel Aviv’s military budget. "Israel has never been in a more catastrophic security situation," […]
Germany is reportedly planning to sell Israel another dolphin-type submarine, financing one third of the nuclear-powered military submarine’s cost. Berlin has approved to set aside USD 180 million in next year’s defense budget for funding […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo It’s hard to imagine a greater provocation than your bosom buddy killing 28 of your own soldiers. NATO helicopters violated the airspace of Pakistan from Afghanistan on Friday and opened […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth As protests raged again across the Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, offered his assessment of the Arab Spring last week. It was, he said, an “Islamic, anti-western, anti-liberal, […]
By M. I. Bhat Keen media observers may have noticed that before the current economic meltdown the phrase ‘Third World’ had gone missing from news and political and economic analysis columns, courtesy economic liberalization that […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘If a man seeks to understand Rome’s casus reason for each foreign conquest, he needs only look into the Treasury.’ (Tacitus, AD 56 – AD 117.) As the US and UK lead towards […]
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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