By Ramzy Baroud For those who spent childhoods in Gaza, the spiritual month of abstinence provokes reflection on how it enabled Palestinians to uncover the collective strength of their beleaguered community When I was a […]
Israel on Monday issued a brusque warning to Hamas, demanding it prevent rocket fire from Gaza as fears grow of a new confrontation around the coastal Palestinian enclave. Militants fired 14 rockets at southern Israel […]
Egyptian prosecutors have referred two Israelis and one Egyptian to trial on espionage charges, a judicial source said on Sunday. The Egyptian is in custody and the two Israeli “fugitives” are to be tried in […]
By Hussein Al-alak After a near decade long occupation of Iraq, you would have thought that some people, within British political circles, would have learned something about the country, which they sent troops in to […]
Israel has dropped hundreds of anti-Hamas lollipops in two of the West Bank’s largest cities, in a renewed attempt to incite Palestinian popular opinion against the Islamist political group. Palestinian residents of Nablus and Ramallah […]
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday called for considering the reoccupation of Gaza by Israel following what he described as a surge in rocket attacks, as the UN urged ‘restraint’ over the disappearance of […]
By Stuart Littlewood I’ve been reprimanded for being too critical of the Presbyterian Church (USA) which has taken 10 years and 5 general assemblies to deal with its objectionable investments, and then only by the […]
The Israeli military on Thursday officially identified Marwan al-Qawasmeh, 29, and Ammar Abu Eisha, 33, as the two main suspects in the kidnapping of three Israeli youths who went missing two weeks ago. The military […]
Israel offered to help moderate Arab nations threatened by a lightning offensive by militants in Iraq, as the country’s top diplomat met with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor […]
By Ramzy Baroud “Brother, brother,” a young man called on me as I hurriedly left a lecture hall in some community center in Durban, South Africa. This happened at the height of the Afghanistan and […]
Israeli troops detained 37 Palestinians in the West Bank during the night as its arrest campaign entered its 11th day on Monday, with no sign of three settlers thought kidnapped, and amidst clashes in the […]
The number of Palestinian children in Israeli jails has surpassed 250 in the wake of the ongoing military search campaign in the West Bank, a Palestinian Authority lawyer said Tuesday. “Israel is violating international children’s […]
Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal has denied having information about three Israeli teenagers thought to have been kidnapped in the West Bank, in an interview aired Tuesday. “Frankly, we do not have information about what happened,” […]
By Zaakir Ahmed Mayet The verdict and sentence handed down against three Al Jazeera English journalists by the judiciary controlled by the illegitimate Sisi regime has shocked the world. Waves of condemnation have rushed into […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth For more than a month Israel sought to wriggle off a hook that should have snared it from the start. Two children, 17 and 16, were shot dead during Nakba […]
By Richard Falk At this moment it is right to celebrate unreservedly the outcome of the vote in Presbyterian General Assembly decreeing the divestment of $21 million worth of shares in Motorola Solutions, Hewlett-Packard, and […]
By Tamar Fleishman Twenty people, who had been released from hospitals all around the West Bank, gathered at Qalandiya checkpoint in order to receive permits from the DCO and head home to the Gaza strip. […]
By Jeremy Salt Nearly four decades ago, determined to win a war it was losing in Vietnam, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger paved the way for the rise of Pol Pot and the inception of […]
By Jamal Kanj In 1992 British born American Zionist Bernard Lewis wrote in the Foreign Affairs journal “Rethinking the Middle East” calling for the “Lebanonisation” of the Arab world for it was “vulnerable to such […]
The nearly 1.9 million member Presbyterian Church USA voted Friday after a contentious debate to divest from three companies that provide supplies to Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank. The 310 to […]
A 22-year-old youth on Friday succumbed to wounds sustained during an Israeli military raid on Qalandiya refugee camp south of Ramallah, making him the second Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces since the morning. […]
By Ala Qandil Sitting on a leather armchair that oversizes his fragile build, in his Ramallah law office, located on one of the main streets of this bustling city, Raja Shehadeh speaks softly and calmly […]
Israeli forces shot and killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy after clashes erupted early Friday morning during a raid on the southern West Bank village of Dura, near Hebron. Local sources told Ma’an that Mahmoud Jihad […]
By Sam Bahour I have had enough of those Palestinians. I think the world in general is also fed up with Palestinians. They have gone too far in demonizing Israelis and must be stopped. The […]
By Nicola Nasser Reacting to antagonized Palestinian snowballing protests to her government’s decision on June 5 to reverse a 47-year old bipartisan consensus on describing eastern Jerusalem as “occupied,” Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on June […]
By Ramzy Baroud “Labeiki ya Zaynab,” chanted Iraqi Shiite fighters as they swayed, dancing with their rifles before news cameras in Baghdad on 13 June. They were apparently getting ready for a difficult fight ahead. […]
By Stuart Littlewood Israel’s elaborate hasbara (propaganda) machine has done a sterling job over the years of distorting the truth and re-framing the Holy Land narrative to make the regime in Tel Aviv appear blameless […]
One Palestinian was killed, homes were demolished and dozens more were arrested on Tuesday amid an intensifying Israeli army crackdown in West Bank areas following the disappearance of three Israeli settlers. The latest demolition took […]
Israeli troops shot dead a young Palestinian man in al-Jalazun refugee camp north of Ramallah during overnight clashes with locals, medics said. Palestinian Red Crescent officials said the victim, 20-year-old Ahmad Sabarin, was killed by […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security cabinet on Monday to discuss possible punitive steps against Hamas which Israel has blamed for the kidnapping of three teenagers, media reports said. “We have one goal: to […]
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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