PLO officials on Wednesday marked the 46th anniversary of the Naksa, or setback, in which Israel defeated five Arab armies in 1967 and seized the occupied territories. “Forty-six years later, the Israeli occupation of twenty-two […]
By Sam Bahour Next to U.S. support for Israel, the main reason why the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip continues is that the Europeans have reduced themselves to a subservient role […]
By Ramzy Baroud On April 21, the BBC obtained disturbing video footage shot in Burma. It confirmed extreme reports of what has been taking place in that country, even as it is being touted by […]
Reviewed by Hala Nassar (Raja Shehadeh: Occupation Diaries. Profile Books Ltd, London 2012. Pages 208, Illustrations.) When Raja Shehadeh writes about Palestine, he makes sure that we walk with him the valleys, the mountains and […]
President Mahmoud Abbas wants to return to negotiations “as soon as possible” to achieve peace based on a two-state solution, he said Tuesday. “We are determined to return to the negotiating table as soon as […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Under heavy pressure from the US, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has paid grudging lip service over the past four years to the goal of Palestinian statehood. But his […]
Young Palestinian men and Israeli forces clashed in East Jerusalem’s Abu Dis neighborhood on Monday as Israeli Civil Administration officers delivered a demolition order for a building in the village. Dozens of students from the […]
By Stuart Littlewood Australian federal and state MPs have been indulging in an orgy of anti-anti-Semitism by signing en masse the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism. Over 100 have put their mark on it. The […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on Rami Hamdallah, the head of al-Najah University in the West Bank city of Nablus, to form a new government as the next prime minister, and the academic said […]
Iran has significantly reduced financial support to Hamas because of the group’s support for opposition groups in Syria’s internal conflict, a senior party official said Monday. Ahmed Yousif told Ma’an that Iran has never threatened […]
The Israeli military has disciplined a group of female soldiers who posted photos of themselves in underwear on Facebook. One picture shows the soldiers exposing their underwear and bottoms. In another, five women pose only […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara William Hague’s statement that extremism in Syria would flourish unless the EU ended its arms embargo was grotesque. On the basis of the massive quantities of arms already delivered by […]
By Uri Avnery Ya’ir Lapid, the freshman parliamentarian and Treasury Minister, has declared that from now on he will deliver all his important speeches outside the Knesset, confining his Knesset appearances to the legal minimum. […]
By Julie Webb-Pullman Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan might now be pondering on his own advice to Syrian President Bashar Assad, to listen to his people, before he finds himself and his government similarly […]
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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