As investigations into the killing of two Palestinian teenagers at a Nakba Day protest earlier this month continue, an Israeli army soldier who allegedly fired a rubber bullet during the incident has been suspended, according […]
By Richard Falk I am not surprised that there are such contradictory reactions to Pope Francis’ recent visit to Palestine and Israel. To begin with, there are sharply divergent views about the Catholic Church, and […]
A senior Fatah official said on Thursday afternoon that a government of national consensus would be decided upon and made public in the coming hours, as negotiators from both sides are working out the last […]
All Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Israeli custody since April 24 have been evacuated to hospitals after their health deteriorated seriously, a lawyer said. Jawad Bulous, who works for the Palestinian […]
Reviewed by Jim Miles (The Battle for Justice in Palestine. Ali Abunimah. Haymarket Press, Chicago, USA. 2014.) With the peace talks being dead, what happens in Israel/Palestine? Settlements will continue to be built, dispossession will […]
By Vacy Vlazna On the Other Side of the Road, is a documentary with a cathartic difference about the Palestinian Nakba; the 1948 catastrophe of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of over 500 Palestine villages and cities […]
By Steve Breyman Mark Landler’s “US Troops to Leave Afghanistan by End of 2016” was the lead story in the New York Times on Wednesday, May 28. Landler reports President Obama’s decision to reduce troop […]
By Johnny Barber Whitewashed like other politically significant sites around Cairo, Tahrir Square today shows no memory of the youths who died there for Egypt’s future The City of the Dead in Cairo is an […]
By Ramzy Baroud On 16 May, Libya’s rogue general Khalifa Haftar staged several bloody attacks against other Libyan militias in the name of eradicating terrorism by leading a paramilitary force evasively named the Libyan National […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth When Pope Benedict XVI visited the Holy Land five years ago, Israel heightened its security, gladly emphasizing the potential threat he supposedly faced in Israel from Muslim extremists. As his […]
By Jamil Khader On the eve of the sixty sixth anniversary of the Palestinian Nakbah (May 14th), the Franco-German Cultural Center in Ramallah screened the French director Michel Gondry’s film, Is the Man Who is […]
By Sam Bahour Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip use the Israeli currency, the New Israeli Shekel, for their daily business. However, as the peace negotiation […]
By Mats Svensson You come to Palestine as a diplomat, as a development worker. You come to create change. To make something better. Not for yourself but for people living on a small plot of […]
A senior Palestinian official told US media on Sunday that the PLO had accepted an invitation to attend talks with an Israeli delegation at the Vatican. A member of the PLO executive committee was quoted […]
By Jamal Kanj Is it the official diplomatic fanfare and PR machine parading Israel’s religious “tourism,” or the unofficial welcome decorating Palestinian churches in Jerusalem with slogans like “Jesus is garbage” and “Mary is a […]
The following is a translation of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech at a press conference upon Pope Francis’ arrival in Bethlehem early Sunday. It’s a great honor to welcome Your Holiness to Bethlehem, […]
By Nicola Nasser A media blackout of the war crimes committed by Syrian insurgents has allowed them to act with impunity, with all scrutiny falling on Damascus As the conflict in Syria enters its fourth […]
In one of his last interviews before he died of cancer this week, renowned Arab Druze poet Samih al-Qasim talked about the role poetry has played in the region’s fractious history. By Liam Brown I’ve […]
The Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday brushed off demands, both domestic and international, for a transparent investigation into the deaths of two Palestinian youths killed by Israeli forces last week. The pressure follows […]
Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday heard an appeal by the parents of a US activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in 2003. The parents of Rachel Corrie asked for a […]
A group of 30 Palestinian refugees fleeing Syria have been allowed to temporarily enter Tunisia until a permanent solution can be found, having been denied entry to the country a day earlier. The refugees landed […]
By John V. Whitbeck Now that the American-monopolized “peace process” has expired, Europe should seize the initiative and try to do something useful for Israelis, Palestinians and peace. If European states still believe that a […]
By Hatim Kanaaneh Silly thoughts come and go. That is why we call them passing thoughts. But some silly thoughts come out of the blue and stay. How can one fall asleep with such a […]
By Dimi Reider The Israeli response to Nakba Day events this year involved clampdown on demonstrators in the West Bank, most lethally in Betunia, where two Palestinian teenagers – Muhammad Abu Daher and Nadim Siam […]
A dry winter in the Middle East is being studied particularly closely in Gaza, where the area’s 1.9 million residents already face a number of largely man-made threats to water security. The following round-up of […]
Jailed Palestinian leaders Marwan Barghouthi and Ahmad Saadat have announced that they will go on hunger strike on Wednesday, a senior official said. Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe said Tuesday that over 120 Palestinian […]
The Gaza Strip ministry of interior on Saturday evening agreed to jail three security officers for two weeks after a fact-finding commission determined that they had used excessive force against demonstrators and journalists during a […]
By Joe Catron – Gaza Nestled into the northeastern corner of the Gaza Strip, where the separation barrier Israel built around the Palestinian enclave in 1994 curves from the east to the south, Wael Wahdaan’s […]
Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Thursday evening that Hamas had agreed to the details of the reunification of security forces with Fatah, resolving a key obstacle in the implementation of the national reconciliation […]
Dear Ghassan, On our birthday this year I turned 31 and you turned 78. Even the dead grow old without a homeland. Do you know that we live and die in diaspora now? Do you […]
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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