The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine warned on Monday that PLO meetings with Israeli envoys were set to harm reconciliation between Palestinian factions, as Hamas reiterated its opposition to the talks. PLO delegates […]
Israel will boost defence spending by about six per cent this year in the face of deepening regional instability, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, after saying last year that he would make cuts to […]
Izz Tawil draws a black circle on the flip-chart in his office in Ramallah, capital of the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). “The Palestinian economy is a closed cash-circle,” the general manager […]
By Deepak Tripathi An old colleague who was a distinguished Africa expert used to say, ‘When the mainstream media focus on one half of the story in a continent full of brutal and corrupt dictators […]
By Roger Sheety The most recent diatribe by Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua published by Haaretz represents the latest nail in the ideological coffin of so-called liberal Zionism. Writing out of his comfortable home in […]
Israel has said the online publication of thousands of its citizens’ credit card details by a hacker who says he is based in Saudi Arabia is comparable to terrorism, and promised to hit back. Such cyber-attacks […]
By Stuart Littlewood Britain’s foreign secretary William Hague is taking a long time to answer the sort of questions he must have mulled over before starting this country along another warmongering road to hell. Explanation, […]
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph A baby fighting for his life. Parents are panic stricken. Doctors desperate for help. Permission to get medical help denied. Welcome to Gaza! The world’s largest open air prison in the world, with […]
Hamas on Friday denied allegations that its security forces refused to allow a Fatah delegation to enter Gaza. Ismail Jaber, a former security chief and aide to President Mahmoud Abbas, told Ma’an that he and […]
Israeli troops demolish four Palestinian houses in the east of Tel Aviv-occupied West Bank, which they claim were endangering an archaeological site located nearby besides having been built ‘illegally.’ “They are in the area of […]
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal is in Egypt to hold talks with Egyptian and Arab League (AL) officials on Palestinian reconciliation efforts. "Hamas is committed to achieving reconciliation to end the Palestinian division, form a government, […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel Is there no limit to the villainy of Hamas? Seems there isn’t. This week, they did something quite unforgivable. They stole a war. For some weeks now, our almost new […]
By Ramzy Baroud There was an unmistakable hint of triumph in the comments made by Ismail Haniyeh, Prime Minister of the elected Hamas government in Gaza when he was hosted by Mohammed Badie, Supreme Guide […]
Palestinian tax revenues collected by Israel amounting to 150 million shekels ($39 million) will be transferred to Gaza upon their release in the next 24 hours, the head of the Palestinian Monetary Authority said on […]
Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister, has been indicted on corruption charges in the so-called Holyland case. Olmert was accused on Thursday of taking bribes to promote construction of housing projects while he was the […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan In 1917, Jews constituted 7 percent of the indigenous Palestinian population and owned 1 percent of the land. Britain, as a colonialist power and the victor of World War I forced […]
By Ludwig Watzal The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) was launched in Brussels on 4 March 2009. It’s a people’s tribunal in the spirit of the Tribunal on the Vietnam war that was set up […]
By Sean Fenley ‘[Obama] didn’t just embrace the Bush policies he kissed them on the lips and ran with them.’ – Ret. United States Air Force Colonel, Morris Davis ‘The buck stops here!’ – Harry S. […]
When hundreds of thousands of people across the Arab world poured into the streets in 2011 to demand freedom from dictatorship, they set in motion a series of events which not only created humanitarian needs […]
Hamas leader Ismail Radwan said on Wednesday the PLO meeting with Israeli envoys in Amman on Tuesday would damage Fatah’s reconciliation deal with his faction. "We consider these meetings a blow for national reconciliation, especially […]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commended Palestinian and Israeli negotiators for meeting today in Amman, Jordan, and called on the two sides to use the meeting to work towards a lasting solution to the Middle East conflict. […]
By Paul Craig Roberts The outlook for liberty is dismal. Those writers who are critical of Washington’s illegal wars and overthrow of the US Constitution could find themselves in indefinite detainment, because criticism of Washington’s […]
By Ismail Salami – Tehran Will Washington dispense with a new round of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran? Or will the warmongers in the White House march for war against the country? In a […]
By Ramzy Baroud ‘Sooner or later, there will be no escape from conducting a significant operation [in Gaza],’ said Israeli army Chief of Staff Lieutenent General Benny Gantz on December 27, the third anniversary of […]
Resistance movement of Hamas has called on the Palestinian Authority to boycott an upcoming meeting with the Israeli negotiators in Jordan’s capital Amman. “We urge the Palestinian Authority to cancel the meeting. These meetings are a […]
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have gathered in the Jordanian capital for their first face-to-face meeting in more than 15 months, but both sides insisted full-blown talks remained some way off. Israel’s chief negotiator Yitzhak Molcho, […]
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has said that Palestinians will never back down in their resistance against the Israeli occupiers and their blockade of the Gaza Strip. During his tour of the Turkish Mavi Marmara […]
By Kathy Kelly and the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers – Kabul Bibi Sadia and her husband Baba share a humble home with their son, his wife and their two little children. An Afghan human rights […]
The cross-party committee overseeing national reconciliation met in the Gaza Strip for the first time on Monday, after the meeting was postponed days earlier. The "public freedoms committee" is tasked with hammering out a number […]
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will meet for the first time in more than a year in Jordan on Tuesday to discuss stalled peace talks, the Jordanian foreign ministry said on Sunday. "Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on […]
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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