Khaled Meshaal, the Hamas leader in exile, has rejected any concessions over a future Palestine state at a rally marking the 25th anniversary of the armed Palestinian group. More than 100,000 Palestinians gathered in the […]
An international conference on Palestinians jailed in Israel, to take place in Iraq next week, will address the legal status of prisoners after Palestine was recognized as a non-member state at the United Nations. Palestinian […]
By Tamar Fleishman – Qalandiya, The West Bank The final two days of Israel’s so-called Pillar of Cloud operation were declared as days of rage. In front of the checkpoints, the prisons and the army […]
By Doc Jazz The Mavrix, a South African band, are known for their solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Their musical message reached all the way into the hearts of the Palestinians of Gaza and received […]
By Uri Avnery ‘Revenge is a dish that is best eaten cold,’ is a saying attributed to Stalin. I don’t know if he really said that. All the possible witnesses were executed long ago. Anyhow, […]
By Ismail Salami As part of the sinister plan for Syria at work, French military agents have recently held face-to-face meetings with the foreign-backed militants inside the country in a bid to “assess the situation […]
By Ramzy Baroud Palestine has become a “non-member state” at the United Nations as of Thursday November 29, 2012.The draft of the UN resolution beckoning what many perceive as a historic moment passed with an […]
By Joshua Brollier – Gaza City Dr. Majdi Na’eim worked for eight consecutive days at Al-Shifa Hospital throughout Israel’s “Pillar of Cloud” operation in the Gaza strip. With hundreds of wounded pouring into the emergency […]
By Jamal Kanj Egyptian democracy is alive and well. That is about the only positive observation on the current pro and counter demonstrations in major cities across the country. President Mohammed Mursi’s precarious pronouncement on […]
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been holding tense talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel as plans to build thousands of new settler homes on occupied Palestinian land strained ties with key allies. On a […]
More than 20 Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli forces in central Hebron on Thursday afternoon, after a skirmish between Israeli troops and Palestinian police. Locals said Israeli soldiers had tried to detain an […]
By Vacy Vlazna In the early winter of 1918, the wheat, barley and sesame fields of Sarafand al-Kharab lay fallow. Oranges, figs, almonds and olives had been harvested, the summer honey stored. At night the […]
By Tariq Shadid When Stevie Wonder announced his withdrawal from a performance at the FIDF (“Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces”) fundraiser gala, many in the pro-Palestinian movement cheered. I was relieved too. Seeing one […]
By Nicola Nasser – Bir Zeit, West Bank Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has definitely crossed an international red line to vindicate a swift and firm rejection from Israel’s closest allies when he announced plans […]
By Stuart Littlewood Earlier this week, in a sham show of ‘get tough’ diplomacy, UK foreign minister Alistair Burt announced that the Israeli ambassador had been formally summoned to the Foreign Office following Israel’s decisions […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot – London Palestine’s recognition at the United Nations as a Non-Member Observer State, led the self proclaimed “only democracy in the Middle East” to hurl its metaphorical toys out of the pram, […]
By William A. Cook ‘As for the rights of Jewish people in this land, I have a simple message for those people gathered in the General Assembly today, no decision by the U.N. can break […]
By Ismail Salami – Tehran US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has recently described Iran as the hardest issue she has been dealing with as secretary of state. In 30-minute keynote address at the annual […]
Israeli settlement activity in the Palestinian territory, especially the newly announced projects in the E-1 area, is a red line which cannot go unanswered because it divides the Palestinian land, President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday. […]
By Faisal Al Yafai – The National As the West Bank celebrated on Sunday after the UN vote to recognize Palestine as a non-member state, the reality in the occupied territories remained unchanged. Israel’s land […]
A Palestinian man who was shot dead by Israeli security agents outside Nablus on Monday did not attack them before they opened fire, his family maintains. Hatem Shadid of the Illar village was driving when […]
By Ramzy Baroud A small group of students affiliated mostly with leftist Palestinian factions meandered through the streets of the small town of Birzeit near Ramallah in the summer of 1993. It was an impromptu […]
By Ernest Corea – Washington, D.C. The Israeli government’s desire to extract revenge from the Palestinians for the recognition that the international community has bestowed on the Palestinian Authority (PA) is offensive and inconsistent with […]
The United Nations passed a resolution, calling on the Israeli regime to quickly open its nuclear program to inspection and join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) “without further delay.” The 193-member UN General Assembly on […]
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails launched a one-day hunger strike on Tuesday for the second consecutive week, to show support to long-term hunger strikers, the Palestinian Authority ministry of prisoners affairs said. Last Tuesday, prisoners […]
Twelve Fatah members returned to the Gaza Strip on Monday after fleeing the enclave in 2007 amid a fierce battle with Hamas. “We are strugglers, we left for blood not to be shed and today […]
By Kathy Kelly – Gaza On November 15, 2012, day three of the recent eight day bombardment of Gaza, Ahmed Basyouni and his family were watching news of the attacks on TV in their home […]
By Jim Petras By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara Asked in a recent interview about the ‘Arab Spring’, Michel Aoun, the Lebanese Christian leader and ally of Hizbullah smiled and said ‘You mean the Arab hell’. That for the […]
By John V. Whitbeck The UN General Assembly has now voted, by 138 votes to 9, with 41 abstentions and 5 no-shows, to recognize the existence as a state “of the State of Palestine 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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