By Vacy Vlazna Dear Morani, “We who are born here on this divine land, we who are dedicated to the message of peace and freedom and the defense of human values, and of the strength of the olive tree…we declare our presence as a wound crying in the depths of time and space in spite […]...
By Mich Levy Winning the war against Israel’s domination of Palestine would concomitantly be a deafening blow to the imperial powers and partners that have controlled the larger region for a century and shaped our global political economy for longer. It is this bigger picture, and history, which suggest that the battle for the self-determination […]...
Israel said Sunday it had found 40 long-range rockets aboard a ship it intercepted in the Red Sea, claiming that it carried weapons sent by Iran to Gaza Strip militants. A statement from the Israeli military said the M-302 rockets with a range of 160 kilometers were found in containers offloaded from the Panamanian-flagged Klos-C. […]...
The Arab League has backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s rejection of Israel as a “Jewish state”, as US-backed negotiations approach a deadline next month. League chief Nabil Elaraby called on Arab countries to take a “firm stand” against Israel’s demands, calling it a deviation from an agreed-upon framework for peace talks. El-Araby delivered his remarks...
By Hatim Kanaaneh The airport security apparatus’s routine act of strip-searching Ezies Elias Shehadeh, an Arab teacher in a Jewish school, has generated too much media noise including Israeli TV and radio reports and interviews and the main editorial in Haaretz. Local Arabic language papers veered off from their focus on the earthshaking Nazareth mayoral […]...
By Ludwig Watzal Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave one of his typical speeches at this year’s AIPAC convention in Washington. Before he delivered his usual sermon about Iran and the other “terrorists” in the region, he implored the friendship and the alliance between Israel and the United States of America. This time, neither President […]...
By Uri Avnery Benjamin Netanyahu is very good at making speeches, especially to Jews, neocons and such, who jump up and applaud wildly at everything he says, including that tomorrow the sun will rise in the west. The question is: is he good at anything else? His father, an ultra-ultra-Rightist, once said about him that […]...
By Neve Gordon (Center-staging the calamities of collaboration, Elliott Colla’s noir thriller exposes the moral and strategic failures of military occupation.) Without networks of collaborators conscripted from among the ranks of the insurgency, sustained military occupations are unthinkable. Yet, no one likes to talk about collaborators—it is an unpleasant subject because collaborators are about as...
Six Palestinians were injured and two Israeli peace activists were detained as protests against the Israeli occupation broke out in at least four villages across the West Bank on Friday. Dozens of Palestinians also suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation during the clashes, which took place in al-Ram, Kafr Qaddum, Bilin, and Beit Ummar. Al-Ram […]...
By Nicola Nasser – Birzeit, West Bank In the Palestinian West Bank town of Birzeit early last February 27, the Israeli (IDF) Occupation Forces (IOF) acted determinedly, under the media spotlights, to feed Amnesty International with a show case study to vindicate the report it released only hours earlier, entitled “Trigger-happy: Israel’s use of excessive […]...
Israel claimed that it intercepted a ship in the Red Sea on Wednesday carrying Iranian “advanced weaponry” bound for Palestinian militants in Gaza, the military said. Representatives of both Hamas and Islamic Jihad, however, denied the accusations, with Hamas officials pointing out that Gaza is under a complete naval blockade by Israel that would make […]...
Israel says it has intercepted a ship in the Red Sea carrying Syrian-made “advanced weaponry” being shipped from Iran to Palestinian fighters in Gaza. The Israeli military said the weapons were shipped overland to Iran and then onward towards Gaza by sea. Iran and Syria have long provided aid to both Lebanon’s Shia movement, Hezbollah, […]...
By Ramzy Baroud In the early days of the Syrian uprising-turned civil war three years ago, the writing on the wall of it becoming an intricate regional and international conflict was there for all to see. Palestinians in Syria were likely to find themselves a pawn in a dirty war, but few could have predicted […]...
An Egyptian court has banned all activities of Hamas in Egypt, a judge said, in another sign that security forces plan to squeeze the Palestinian group that runs the neighboring Gaza Strip. Hamas is an offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which has been declared a ‘terrorist group’ by Egypt’s army-backed government and has faced a […]...
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has bluntly told Barack Obama that he would never compromise on his country’s security even as the US president sought to reassure him on nuclear diplomacy towards Iran and pressure him on Middle East peace talks. In a White House meeting on Monday, overshadowed by the Ukraine crisis, the two […]...
The number of Israeli settlements being started in the West Bank more than doubled during 2013, the Israel central bureau of statistics has said. The bureau said work began on 2,534 new housing units in the settlements in 2013, compared to 1,133 in 2012. Monday’s announcement comes just hours before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]...
Hundreds in Gaza on Tuesday attended the funerals of two men who were killed by an Israeli airstrike the night before, a Ma’an reporter said. In Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinians marched and carried the bodies of Musab Moussa al-Zaaneen and Sharif Nasser, raising Palestinian flags and calling for continued resistance against […]...
By Younes Hassar Cairo. The rumour spread quickly throughout the streets of the city. It is now confirmed news: the king has been deposed by his loyal soldiers. Most people familiar with Egypt would assume that this is the year 1952, that the sovereign in question is king Farouk and that the loyal soldiers are […]...
By Eric Walberg US plans for Egypt and Ukraine are falling apart and Russia is scrambling to pick up the pieces. In the latest color revolution, it was not an army but a rump parliament that pulled the plug on the elected president on a wave of protest, pushing out Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovich on 22 […]...
By Tamar Fleishman – Qalandiya, West Bank Hundreds of years have passed since the prophet Hosea spoke these words of reproval: “The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And […]...