The father of imprisoned Islamic Jihad Khader Adnan announced Monday that he will hold an open ended hunger-strike to show solidarity with his son. Jihad leader Khader Adnan entered his 51st day on hunger-strike on […]
The Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza has warned of an imminent health crisis as hospitals in the besieged strip continue to face power outages, Press TV reports. “All departments of the Gaza Strip hospitals including […]
By Ludwig Watzal (Ben White, Palestinians in Israel. Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy, Pluto Press, London 2012, 128 pp., 13 Pounds.) With the signing of the Oslo Accords that led to the outbreak of the so-called […]
By William A. Cook ‘Men use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.’ —Voltaire: Dialogue XIV, Le Chapon et la Poularde Voltaire’s wit often illuminates truth. Consider this revealing […]
By Michael Nolan We assume that a stable, democratic republic enforces its own laws and abides by those of the international community. We assume, as well, that a soldier obeys orders, despite personal views, in a […]
By Sami Zaatari Politicians and supporters of Israel often use analogies to try and paint the Palestinians as the bad guys, the villains who are responsible for the conflict, and the party that is responsible […]
Protesters rallied across the West Bank on Saturday, criticizing government policies that have lead to a rise in living costs. In Hebron, hundreds marched from the Hebron municipality headquarters to the ministry of economy building, […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected round the world.’ (President Barack Obama, State of the Union address, 24th January 2012.) […]
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon has threatened Tehran with a military strike against its nuclear facilities in an attempt to force the country to abandon its nuclear energy program. Speaking at the 2012 Herzliya Conference […]
PLO official Wasel Abu Yousef said Thursday that the diplomatic Quartet has proposed a series of measures to ease Israeli restrictions on Palestinians in order to restart stalled peace talks, according to news reports. The […]
Israeli warplanes have conducted more airstrikes against several areas in the besieged Gaza Strip, wounding at least two Palestinians, including a child. The airstrikes seriously injured a three-and-a-half-year-old girl at a home and wounded another […]
By Uri Avnery (On Monday, I was honored to receive the Leibowitz Prize for ‘life’s work’, the prize established by the Yesh Gvul soldiers’ peace organization. I was unable to prepare a speech, so I […]
By Ismail Salami The simmering tensions over the Malvinas Islands or Falkland Islands (off the coast of Argentina in the South Atlantic) have become a matter of great concern as the UK decided to deploy […]
By David Green I only recently learned of Illinois Governor Pat Quinn’s trip to Israel this past summer (2011) for a ‘week-long educational mission where he sealed two important agreements and received briefings from high-ranking […]
Protesters have thrown shoes and small stones at the convoy of Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, as he entered the Gaza Strip for a visit. An AFP correspondent on the Gaza side of the Erez crossing […]
Efforts to implement reconciliation measures are being delayed, with both Fatah and Hamas officials trading claims of intransigence. In an exclusive interview with Ma’an on Wednesday evening, Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muheisin said that […]
Israel has rejected calls by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to stop its illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank. During a joint press conference with the UN chief in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday, […]
By Ramzy Baroud In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as ‘anti-Semitic’. He also denounced Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi for writing a forward to White’s latest book, Palestinians in […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo Afghan immigrants Mohammad Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Mahommad Yahya and their 21-year-old son Hamed were found guilty in a Canadian court Sunday of first degree murder in the 2009 […]
A group of European Parliamentarians on Wednesday called on Israel to release 26 imprisoned Palestinian lawmakers, official news agency Wafa reported. The group, composed of 26 members of the European Parliament, urged “the EU and […]
The humanitarian community’s 2012-2013 Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has a narrower scope than in previous years, focusing on two strategic objectives: improving the protective environment, including access to essential […]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Israelis and Palestinians to take steps that will build trust and ensure an environment conducive to sustained negotiations, voicing his hope that the nascent talks begun last month between […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘… the enduring power of our moral example, America is back.’ — President Obama, State of the Union address, 24 January 2012 First the world was sold imaginary weapons of mass destruction in […]
By Stuart Littlewood Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was in London recently. Did anyone know? Did western media care? No. Not until reports appeared that Jewish community leaders cancelled a meeting with him after intervention by […]
President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal are expected to agree on the structure of a Palestinian national unity government during their meeting in Amman this Thursday, according to a senior Fatah official. Secretary-general […]
A recent report has revealed that Israel has increased the number of its overseas covert operations in countries such as Sudan, Lebanon and Iran over the past year. "Most of the details about the operations are […]
By Danny Lucia ‘Over a million Iraqis are dead from America’s war.’ That sentence is a cognitive litmus test. Some people’s immediate reaction is, ‘That can’t be right,’ because the United States couldn’t do that. […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo The Third Annual BDS Conference opened 17 December at Hebron’s Children’s Happiness Centre, ‘to expand Palestinian civil society’s active implementation of BDS that is deeply rooted in the Palestinian struggle.’ […]
By A Bhakto She continued to trust different brokers of peace. And was betrayed over and over again. Her happy and carefree children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, and good […]
By Ramzy Baroud The British Foreign Office and the US State Department are seriously concerned. Human rights officers in the United Nations are angry. Canada, for some reason, seems particularly enraged. The target of all […]
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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