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Month: February 2013
Israel Court Defers Release of Hunger Striker
Palestinian hunger striker Samer Issawi has appeared in an Israeli court, where his lawyers attempted to get him released on bail, as hundreds protest across the West Bank. Gaunt and wheelchair-bound, Issawi appeared on Tuesday […]
Israeli PM Names Livni as Justice Minister
Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former foreign minister, has been named as justice minister after joining an emerging coalition headed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of the ruling Likud Party. Livni, who heads the centrist HaTnuah Party, […]
Yad Vashem, Power, and the Politics of History
By David Langstaff “I was like other men, I fed on bread, and on dreams, and on despair. I too loved, I cried, I hated, I suffered… But when you dry this bouquet of nettles, […]
Protesters Rally in Solidarity with Hunger Strikers
Protesters rallied in Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah on Monday in support of hunger striking prisoners in Israeli jails, as the PA minister of prisoner affairs warned of a popular uprising in the West Bank. In […]
‘Prisoner X’ Linked to Israeli Spying Leak
A suspected agent of the Israeli spy agency Mossad known as “Prisoner X” was arrested by his own spymasters after leaking information about his work to Australian intelligence services, an Australian broadcaster reported. Ben Zygier, […]
Israel ex-FM Lieberman on Trial for Fraud
Israel’s former foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud and breach of trust at the start of a trial that has put the ultranationalist’s political career in doubt. The charges, […]
Lapid and the ‘Zuabis’: Marginalization of Arabs Continues
By Uri Avnery The sole contribution of Ya’ir Lapid to Israeli folklore so far is his saying that he would not join a move to block Binyamin Netanyahu, since this would mean joining forces with […]
Why the Iran Sanctions?
By William James Martin The efforts of Israel and its US supporters and the Obama administration to institute crippling sanctions on Iran may have less to do with a potential nuclear capability than with the […]
In the Name of Oppression: Two Babies at Checkpoint
By Tamar Fleishman Two back-to-back procedures at the same time and at the same place. It was cold. The air was polluted. But the harmful and cruel regulations were more polluted. The victims: two babies. […]
Robbery of Books and Ownership of Narrative
By Susan Abulhawa I finally watched The Great Book Robbery at the University of Pennsylvania this weekend with some friends. It’s a film documenting Israel’s systematic looting of over 70,000 books from Palestinian public and […]
Palestinians Rally for Hunger Striker
Israeli soldiers have clashed with Palestinian protesters at a rally in support of a prisoner observing an hunger strike to protest his incarceration. The Israeli military said about 200 Palestinians threw rocks at soldiers who […]
Bulgaria Expels Visiting Hamas Delegation
Palestinian Hamas politicians ordered to leave the country after being branded “a serious threat to national security”. Bulgaria has ordered three visiting Palestinian politicians from Hamas to leave the country, saying they posed a security […]
Counterfeiting on Rise in Gaza
Residents of the Gaza Strip repeatedly fall prey of fake banknotes both in Israeli shekels and in US dollars, smuggled from Egypt through tunnels or printed locally. “Counterfeit NIS are easy to distinguish, but with […]
In Memory of Mahmud Darwish – A Poem
By Manash Bhattacharjee I learnt from your poems how To wait upon death And how waiting is a game as Treacherous as death. I learnt from you how the root Of waiting is grasped in […]
Palestine’s Borderline Restaurant: Mats, It’s Just Politics!!
By Mats Svensson We used to meet at Borderline Restaurant, myself and three young, well-educated men (always men) from “The Bank.” We were discussing the recent World Bank meeting in Al Ram. President Arafat had […]
Medics: Child Dies of Injuries from Gaza Explosion
Medical officials said Thursday that a young boy died two days after an explosion in the al-Sheikh Radwan area in the northern Gaza Strip. Imad Abu Qadrous, 5, died of severe head wounds and three […]
UN Concerned about Palestinian Detainees
Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has expressed concern about the well-being of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, particularly Samer Issawi who has been on hunger strike for more than 200 days […]
Becoming Refugees Once More: Palestinians from Syria Return to Gaza
By IRIN Ahmed Dweik’s family knows a thing or two about the refugee experience. Theirs started in 1948, when his father fled his Palestinian home town as Israeli forces captured the village of West Batani […]
Western Media and Israel: The Definition of Insanity
By Jamal Kanj Western media is obsessed with presenting a positive spin on everything related to Israel, while trivializing good and accentuating negative news on Palestine. It’s admirably free in many aspects, but when it […]
No More Truthless Heroes: Glorifying the Chris Kyle’s Story
By Joshua Brollier On February 11, 2013, the New York Times reported about the funeral of retired Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle, portraying him as a “warrior and family man.” The highly politicized and massive […]
Syrian Civil War Grounded To a Stalemate
By Zachary Fillingham Opposition troops in Syria have largely come to be referred to as the Free Syria Army (FSA), but this title belies the fact that the anti-Assad side of the civil war equation […]
Teatime in Tihar Jail – A Poem
By Ramzy Baroud – with Rafiq Kathwari He sipped then walked slowly head held high greeting the hangman with a gentle nod eyes sunk to heart beard grew defiant remembering the judge asking to repeat […]
Video: Omar Barghouti of the Palestinian BDS Campaign
Omar Barghouti of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign on why he thinks this type of pressure is needed to make Israel respect international law.
Israel Confirms Jailing Mystery Foreigner
Israel has confirmed it had imprisoned a mystery foreigner in solitary confinement on security grounds who had committed suicide, without revealing his identity or the charges against him. “The Israel Prisons Service (IPS) held a […]
Abbas: Hamas Opposes Elections
Fatah leader President Mahmoud Abbas says elections will be the basis to end the division, but that Hamas opposes a vote “at this stage.” “An agreement has been reached with Hamas that we form a […]
Israel Approves 90 New Settler Homes
Israel has given final approval for 90 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, driving another wedge into a rift with Washington ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. The homes will […]
Hamas: West Bank Arrests Underscore Election Obstacles
The detention of Hamas supporters in the West Bank lays more obstacles before the intended general elections, a party official said Tuesday after Israel launched an arrest sweep. Mousa Abu Marzouq, deputy chief of the […]
Iraq at the Brink: A Decade after the Invasion
By Ramzy Baroud Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign ‘Operation Desert Fox’ devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. […]
Palestinians’ Life in the Shadow of the Barrier Wall
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Since 1967 Israeli-Arab war, the Palestinians in the occupied lands have to contend in their daily lives with Jewish-only settlements, settler-only highways, check points and roadblocks, earth mounds and trenches, land […]
The Southern Man and His Cosmopolitan Ghetto: Lapid and the Israeli Center
By Neve Gordon – Israel Former anchorman and middle-class darling Yair Lapid stunned the Israeli political scene in the recent elections. His party, Yesh Atid (There is a Future) won 19 seats, second in size […]