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 agreement. “We agreed on all the details of the security file, we are committed to what we signed. We will […]...
By Ramzy Baroud “In Yemen today, the US embassy is closed to the public. Officials telling CNN there is credible information of a threat against Western interests there,” a CNN news anchor read the news bulletin on May 08. This is CNN’s Yemen. It is a Yemen that seems to exist for one single purpose, […]...
By Ramzy Baroud Although conquered, Yafa city and its proud past as a centre of Arab culture stand tall in the collective memory of Palestinians everywhere When I stood on the borders of Yafa, the line of what is real and imagined suddenly became blurred. Once Palestine’s largest city, Yafa turned out not to be […]...
By Jonathan Cook Palestinians are due to stage marches in both the occupied territories and Israel Thursday to commemorate the loss of their homeland 66 years ago – an event they call the Nakba, or “Catastrophe” – a little more than a week after Israeli Jews celebrated the anniversary of the Jewish state’s birth. But […]...
By Ghada Ageel Israeli advice to Palestinians to “wipe their homeland from their memory” underlines a lack of empathy for Palestinians’ rights In January 1993, I won a full-year scholarship to study Hebrew language and literature in Israel. Seizing the opportunity was not an easy thing for a young, single, Palestinian refugee woman from Gaza. […]...
By Samah Sabawi The reliance on the generosity of the imperial powers and the weak leadership of the Arab elites has been the principle cause of failure in Palestinian resistance For almost one hundred years of Palestinian resistance to the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine, various consecutive Palestinian leaderships have placed their trust in diplomacy […]...
By Jamal Kanj Outgoing Israeli president Shimon Peres talked in a recent interview about a peace agreement he reached with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in 2011. According to Peres, the Israeli prime minister rejected the draft understanding telling him “to wait a few days Tony Blair could get a better offer.” The President continued, “The […]...
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth For 66 years Israel’s founding generation has lived with a guilty secret, one it successfully concealed from the generations that followed. Forests were planted to hide war crimes. School textbooks mythologised the events surrounding Israel’s creation. The army was blindly venerated as the most moral in the world. Once, “Nakba” […]...
Israeli border police shot dead two Palestinians on Thursday during a demonstration in the West Bank marking the 66th anniversary of the Nakba, or “catastrophe” of the Jewish state’s creation. Security and medical sources told AFP that Musaab Nuwarah, 20, and Mohammed Udeh, 17, died in a Ramallah hospital after being shot in the chest […]...
Thousands of Palestinians rallied across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday to mark the 66th anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, of 1948. For the first time since 2007, Palestinian political factions organized joint rallies to mark the mass displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians in the conflict surrounding Israel’s creation. Israeli forces […]...
An Israeli ministerial committee has approved a bill limiting the presidential pardon of Palestinian prisoners convicted of murder. The passage of the bill on Sunday by a clear majority, means that it is now ready to be taken to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, for a preliminary vote. The bill, which gives courts not politicians […]...
By Asa Winstanley – London Activists with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition on Monday said the so-called Gaza’s Ark, which was bombed two weeks ago while docked in Gaza City, would now set sail for Europe in autumn. While strongly implicating Israel as the culprit behind the attack, activists at a press conference in London said […]...
Clashes broke out in Abu Dis on Monday after Israeli forces raided the town to repair a hole made by local activists in the separation wall, local officials said. Hani Halabiya, a spokesman of local popular committees in East Jerusalem, told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers raided Abu Dis to repair a hole in the separation […]...
By Hatim Kanaaneh When your children let you in on their secret plan for a surprise party for your wife’s seventieth birthday and you remember that you are seven years her senior, a ‘senior moment’ should not come as a major surprise. Still I panicked. A friend had dragged me kicking into a conference on […]...
By Nicola Nasser Israel has carved economic inroads into Asia deep enough to compromise the traditional Asian political support for Arabs. If this trend continues, the growing economic Israeli-Asian relations could in no time translate into political ties that would neutralize Asia in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s official visit to Japan from […]...
PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi addressed the Nordic Jerusalem Conference in Sweden on Friday, stressing the importance of Jerusalem for Palestinians. Jerusalem is a symbol of peace, but it is surrounded by military checkpoints, a separation wall, and settlements, Ashrawi said. The city is part and parcel of Palestinian history and culture, she added. […]...
A UN official on Friday called for solidarity with Palestinians though boycott and divestment from companies that benefit from settlements. In a report published in Arabic on the UN’s website, Richard Falk, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, urged organizations and companies around the world to join the […]...
A Fatah spokesman on Saturday said that the PLO-Hamas reconciliation deal was making the necessary progress to be implemented within five weeks of the April 23 agreement as planned. Fayiz Abu Eita told Ma’an that senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad was set to visit the Gaza Strip “soon” to discuss the formation of the agreed-upon […]...
By Steve Breyman “Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” — George Orwell Rise to Prominence Anne-Marie Slaughter had a successful academic career at elite institutions. After receiving degrees from Princeton, Harvard Law, and Oxford, she taught […]...
By Ramzy Baroud I unfriended another Facebook friend this week. It may seem to be a trivial matter, but for me, it is not. The reason behind my action was Syria. As in Egypt, Syria has instigated many social media breakups with people whom, until then, were regarded with a degree of respect and admiration. […]...