By Stephen McCloskey The Gaza Strip is inching toward a humanitarian crisis as Israel’s five year blockade of the territory has been exacerbated by a dispute over fuel supplies. Gaza’s young people are on the […]
By Mamoon Alabbasi – London US presidential candidate Mitt Romney ended a three-country world tour of Britain, Israel and Poland without appearing to have learned much from his overseas trip. Even in his attempts to […]
By Jamal Kanj Mitt Romney has just ended an international tour intended to prop his political credentials as a world leader. In the first leg of his trip, he angered the otherwise temperate Brits by […]
Swiss experts have been invited to the West Bank to test Yasser Arafat’s remains for possible poisoning, the chief investigator looking into the 2004 death of the Palestinian leader has said. Tawfik Tirawi did not […]
Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi has fired his spy chief Murad Muwafi in a major shake-up of military and intelligence ranks extending to the head of the Republican Guard and the governor of North Sinai. Wednesday’s decision […]
By Ramzy Baroud The neoconservatives are back with a vengeance. While popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and other Arab countries had briefly rendered them irrelevant in the region, Western intervention in Libya signaled a […]
By Stuart Reigeluth -Brussels The EU seems oblivious to the fact that Tel Aviv is using the Syria violence to encourage disastrous regional conflict and divert attention from Palestine. The annual EU-Israel Association Council meeting was […]
By Martin Khor – Geneva The use of drones by one state to kill people in other countries is fast emerging as an international human rights issue of serious public concern. This was evident in […]
By Kathy Kelly and Dr. Hakim – Kabul Two days ago, we spent three anxious hours in an outer waiting area of the ‘Non-Immigrant Visa’ section of the U.S. consulate here in Kabul, Afghanistan, waiting […]
By Ludwig Watzal The US Empire constitutes the greatest threat to world peace. This has been proven by the history of this nation. Starting out as a nation born in the fight against British colonialism, […]
By Adie Mormech – Gaza City Thousands of Palestinians gathered for evening prayer in front of the Egyptian embassy in Gaza City Monday evening, in memory of the 16 Egyptian soldiers killed the previous night. […]
By Rebecca Johnson Sixty-seven years ago, on August 6, the first uranium bomb was exploded above Hiroshima with the force of 15 thousand tons of TNT. Tens of thousands were killed by the blast and […]
Egypt’s military has pledged to hunt down those behind the killing of its 16 soldiers at a checkpoint along the Sinai border with Israel. It described on Monday the attackers as "enemies of the nation" who […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to release 50 prisoners detained before the Oslo Accords if the Palestinian Authority cancels its proposed UN bid, Hebrew-language newspaper Maariv reported Monday. Netanyahu also offered to meet […]
By Ismail Salami – Tehran In continuation of the US-led illegal sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, Congress passed on Wednesday night a bill, which imposes more embargoes on the country including those on […]
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has vowed that he will retake control of the Sinai after an attack near the Israeli border left 16 guards dead. "I have given clear orders to all of our security forces, […]
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has vowed that he will retake control of the Sinai after an attack near the Israeli border left 16 guards dead. "I have given clear orders to all of our security forces, […]
The UN Middle East envoy on Sunday urged Israel to reconsider its decision to bar four foreign ministers and ambassadors from attending a conference in Ramallah. "I regret the decision by the Government of Israel […]
Several thousand Israelis have demonstrated their discontent at government austerity measures and the lack of universal military service in two separate protests in Tel Aviv. Saturday’s rallies were in protest against a recent package of sweeping […]
By Georgina Reeves In his latest piece written for the New York Times, Avraham Burg asks: ‘Where is the good old Israel?’ Assuming he is not being tongue-in-cheek, and there is no suggestion in the […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Governor Mitt Romney, the presumptive presidential Republican nominee suggested in a speech delivered in Israel that the reason the Israelis has had greater economic success than the Palestinians was in part […]
Palestinians in Syria will remain neutral in the conflict, a Palestinian Authority official said Saturday, as refugees become increasingly caught up in the violence. Rising numbers of Palestinians are leaving their homes because of the […]
Palestine will obtain a status of non-member state in the UN General Assembly, after which a full membership application will be sent to the UN Security Council, the Palestinian Authority minister of foreign affairs said […]
At a glance, the latest data on post-assistance food security in the West Bank and Gaza Strip – released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN agency […]
President Abbas condemned the attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria on Thursday which killed at least 20 people and wounded 65, a statement from his office said. Witnesses in Yarmouk camp told Reuters […]
By Sam Bahour ‘We have to get rid of Arafat.’ — Israeli defense Minister Shaul Mofaz to Prime Minister Sharon caught on an open mic. (Source: Haaretz, Hebrew) “We operated against Ahmed Yassin and Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi […]
By Yousef M. Aljamal – Gaza Strip ‘You will become an uncle soon,’ my sister Zeinab told me cheerfully. She didn’t know then what fate had in store for her, for us. In April 2007, as […]
By Zahra Pilavdzic Here, buried, beneath the rubble of slaughter. The pawns cry not for kings, but for their missing… mothers, now martyrs. They seek escape at the end of a long, dark checkerboard to hell. Here in the absence of decency… there is no poetry, just blood. and… only the angels can […]
By Jamil Khader Egyptian Director Rami Imam’s popular Ramadanic sitcom, Naji Attallah’s Band, revolves around the personal vendetta of Naji Attalah (performed by the well-known comedic actor, Adel Imam) against the Israeli government. A former […]
By Paul Craig Roberts The State Department has an office that hunts German war criminals. Bureaucracies being what they are, the office will exist into the next century when any surviving German prison guards will […]
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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