Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed Monday he is ready to go to Ramallah to meet President Abbas and open negotiations, in response to questions posed by Ma’an in an online dialogue. "We are completely […]
A senior United Nations official has called for an immediate end to Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, as he witnessed first hand the suffering and destruction caused by this ongoing […]
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal is in Jordan on his first official visit since he was forced to leave in 1999 for what authorities called "illicit and harmful" activities. The trip on Sunday by Meshaal, who was […]
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Beyond Tribal Loyalties – Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists. Ed. Avigail Abarbanel. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, 2012.) In her closing remarks Avigail Abarbanel discusses what the central theme of […]
By Tariq Shadid The essence of the Palestinian struggle is the battle against Zionism. It is a battle against its racism, against its murderous war crimes, against its insatiable territorial hunger, against its disdain for […]
The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory. Nur Masalha. (London: Zed Books, January 2012). 288 pp. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1848139718 2012 marks the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba – the most traumatic catastrophe […]
PLO meetings with Israeli envoys have not been able to restart negotiations, a Palestinian presidential spokesman said Friday, after Israel said it had fulfilled its obligation to the Quartet-sponsored talks. Israel did not provide anything […]
US Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has once again defended his statement about Palestinians being an “invented” people amid a wide-scale anti-Palestinian campaign by American presidential candidates. During a debate in Florida on Thursday night, […]
By Uri Avnery It finally happened. The Egyptian parliament, democratically elected by a free people, has convened for its first session. For me this is a wonderful, a joyful occasion. For many Israelis, this is […]
By Ismail Salami – Tehran Washington’s double-edged sword of policies towards the Islamic Republic is not only exhausting the patience of the Iranian nation but it is provoking the ire of international conscience as well. […]
By Johnny Barber I had spent the prior month in Gaza and actually left Gaza to join the flotilla sailing from Greece. I was hoping to use my modest skills as an EMT in the […]
Almost 1,100 Palestinians, over half of them children, were displaced due to home demolitions in the West Bank by Israeli forces in 2011 – over 80 per cent more than in the previous year – […]
A newly released report says Israel is considering the use of US-made white phosphorus shells in its probable future attack on the Gaza Strip. According to a report published by the Jerusalem Post on Thursday, Israeli […]
Hamas’ Shura Council will select the movement’s next chief when Khalid Mashaal steps down, senior official Mahmoud Zahhar said Thursday. Mashaal confirmed on Saturday that he does not seek renomination as head of the party’s […]
By Sam Bahour The human body is an amazing creation. It’s not only the most complex system known to mankind, but it embodies within it signals that tell its owner that something has gone wrong. […]
By Ramzy Baroud The country that has long been known to abuse its powers and privileges in the United Nations is now leading a campaign to reform the same organization. While UN reforms are welcomed, […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. The rise of asymmetric warfare has suspended the possibility of entrenched conflicts fought between conventional armies, bringing dreaded ‘meat grinders’ to a halt. Now entire populations are subjected to the […]
By Jennifer Loewenstein At night I could not get to sleep. My body was trembling all over and no matter what I did to try to calm myself, I could not stop this trembling. I […]
The Middle East conflict will only end when Israel withdraws to the pre-1967 lines and a Palestinian state is established, jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti has said in a rare court appearance. "The conflict will be […]
An Israeli military court has sentenced the speaker of the Palestinian parliament to jail for the next six months without trial in the latest of Tel Aviv’s detentions of Hamas’ lawmakers. Aziz Dweik, a senior […]
The Israeli government plans to launch its first cyber emergency drill to fortify its vital infrastructure systems against multisource cyber attacks, reports say. The maneuver, dubbed "Lights Out", is to start on Wednesday and will […]
By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank ‘This place is the carbuncle on the ass of the occupation,’ said Dalit Baum as the gates of Ofer prison closed behind us. The Palestinian residents of the […]
The Inter-Parliamentary Union’s committee on the Middle East on Tuesday met to discuss the imprisonment of members of the Palestinian parliament. The head of the Fatah bloc of lawmakers, Azzam Ahmad, headed a delegation representing […]
Palestinian protesters have stormed the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the occupied east Jerusalem (al-Quds) to protest Israel’s abduction of two senior Hamas officials. On Monday, the relatives of the detainees […]
By Stuart Littlewood The Queen needs a new royal yacht. But the British government says it can’t afford to buy her one. The £80 million for the project must come from private sources. "Leading British […]
By Ramzy Baroud Regardless of who may rule Israel, little change ever occurs in the country’s foreign policy. Winning parties remain obsessed with demographics and retaining absolute military dominance. They also remain unfailingly focused on […]
By Ralph Nader The U.S. war in Afghanistan is testing so much futuristic detect and destroy weaponry that it can be called the most advanced all-seeing invasion in military history. From blanket satellite surveillance to […]
Hamas on Monday rejected criticism that it had failed to open the Central Election Commission’s headquarters in Gaza. CEC chairman Hanna Nasir said Monday that the Hamas-run government had not reopened elections offices in the […]
Israeli forces have abducted two senior Hamas officials in an attack on the offices of the Red Cross in the occupied East Jerusalem (Al-Quds). According to a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red […]
A recent report shows that minor Palestinian detainees are physically and verbally abused by Israeli guards in the Al Jalame prison in northern Israel. According to a report published by the Guardian on Sunday, minor […]
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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