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 By Jonathan Cook - Nazareth Things have come to a strange state of affairs when Washington regards Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's far-right foreign minister, as the voice of moderation in the Israeli cabinet. While Lieberman has called the soon-to-be-unveiled US peace plan the best deal Israel is ever likely to get, and has repeatedly flattered its [...]
 By Ramzy Baroud Israel is often viewed by Washington politicians as the most 'stable' ally in the Middle East. But stability from the American perspective can mean many things. Lead amongst them is that the 'ally' must be unconditionally loyal to the diktats of the US administration. This rule has proven to be true since [...]
 By Rana Abdulla Of all the privations in the modern world, some of which can be overcome, admittedly with difficulty, such things as the lack of electricity and gas for heating or cooking although we take for granted are not necessarily prerequisites for a life of sorts, yet all would agree, what cannot be endured [...]
 By Jim Miles Canada's Conservative leader, Stephen Harper, spoke today in front of the Israeli Knesset. It was a short speech, beginning with homilies, platitudes, and economic references and then turned towards the righteous values he deems paramount in both Canada and Israel. In his introduction he talked about Jewish Canadians, "[Jewish Canadians] are also [...]
 By William James Martin To: President Wallace Loh Office of the President University of Maryland College Park, Md 20742 Dear President Loh; I have read your response to the ASA boycott of Israeli academic institutions. In fact, if reports are correct, you said: "We firmly oppose the call by some academic associations-American Studies Association; Asian-American [...]
Jan 22 2014 | Posted in Articles | Commentary | Read More »
 By Jamal Kanj Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon articulated publicly what Israeli leaders say privately: Give us your tax money, weapons and your veto power but "leave us alone." He called the US peace efforts "not worth the paper it is printed on," and accusing US Secretary of State John Kerry of being a glory [...]
Jan 22 2014 | Posted in Articles | Commentary | Read More »
 By Kathy Kelly "Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. ... A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must [...]
Jan 20 2014 | Posted in Articles | Commentary | Read More »
 By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The post-colonial societies everywhere have been fascinated with the military, maybe because the first and last encounter of the post-colonial societies with the colonizing power had been a struggle against its military. With the disappearance of the colonizing power, the elites retain the inherited state apparatus and try to create a [...]
Jan 20 2014 | Posted in Articles | Commentary | Read More »
 By Ahmad Barqawi Their ambivalent stance was not enough, for no middle ground is safe in the Syrian war. No middle ground to be found there anyway. And the worst thing that could happen to the Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk Camp is being impartial at a time when the Arab World is so thoroughly [...]
Jan 20 2014 | Posted in Articles | Commentary | Read More »
By Uri Avnery In the middle of the 70s, Ariel Sharon asked me to arrange something for him - a meeting with Yasser Arafat. A few days before, the Israeli media had discovered that I was in regular contact with the leadership of the PLO, which was listed at the time as a terrorist organization. [...]
Jan 18 2014 | Posted in Articles | Commentary | Read More »
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal Neoconservatives and Zionist lobbyists from the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and their allies on Capitol Hill driven by the right-wing Israeli government are trying everything to sabotage the agreement between Iran and the five UN Security Council members plus Germany. This unholy alliance tries to drag the Obama administration [...]
Jan 17 2014 | Posted in Articles | Commentary | Read More »
 Palestinian film, Omar, has been nominated for an Oscar, making it the second-ever film from Palestine to compete for the prestigious film award. The nomination came on Thursday morning when it was announced that it will contest in the best foreign language film category and will go up against Italy's The Great Beauty, which has [...]
Jan 17 2014 | Posted in Features | News | Read More »
 By Felicity Arbuthnot - London A 'Devastating' two hundred and fifty page document: 'The Responsibility of UK Officials for War Crimes Involving Systematic Detainee Abuse in Iraq from 2003-2008', has been 'presented to the International Criminal Court, and could result in some of Britain's leading defense figures facing prosecution for 'systematic' war crimes' the (London) [...]
Jan 17 2014 | Posted in Articles | Commentary | Read More »
By Omar Shaban Statements of 'solidarity' with Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk are emerging one after the other. Albeit very late as it took some groups 200 days to assemble the courage to announce to the world that they are aware of the crisis that has befell the camp. However, what is characteristic and outrageous in [...]
Jan 17 2014 | Posted in Articles | Commentary | Read More »
 By Felicity Arbuthnot and Dr. Ang Swee Chai As Israel buried Ariel Sharon amid eulogies from world figures, Tony Blair, a Butcher of Baghdad, paid a tribute to the Butcher of Beirut which included the line that Sharon: "didn't think of peace as a dreamer, but did dream of peace." Also that: " ... he [...]
Jan 15 2014 | Posted in Articles | Commentary | Read More »
 By Shafiq Morton Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister, has passed on at the age of 85. After a lingering coma induced by a stroke in 2006, his body has finally shut down - and the curtain has fallen on what can only be described as a colorful, if not chequered career. Although I never [...]
Jan 14 2014 | Posted in Articles | Commentary | Read More »
 By Jamal Kanj My friend and I were on a cross-country flight from San Diego to Washington, DC on Saturday, September 18, 1982. We arrived at our friends' home with gleaming smiles, but were received with dejected expressions. "Haven't you heard the news?" they asked. "What news?" we replied. "The massacre of Palestinian and Lebanese [...]
Jan 14 2014 | Posted in Articles | Commentary | Read More »
 Naming the settler's hate crimes towards the Palestinians "Price Tag" is to be unfaithful to the truth. No other word other than terror could describe the outcome of the crime committed by settlers from Beit- El, towards the residents of the Palestinian neighborhood beside which they, the invaders, built their fortified settlement. Physical, mental and [...]
Jan 14 2014 | Posted in Articles | Features | Read More »
 By Julie Webb-Pullman On Tuesday 7 January the Deputy Director General for Latin America of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Itzhak Shoham, met with the charge d'affaires of the Embassy of Chile in Israel, Oscar Alcamán, to express his "surprise and concern" over the Palestino football club's jersey. The Palestino Club is a first-division [...]
Jan 14 2014 | Posted in Articles | Features | Read More »
 By Ramzy Baroud The death of former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon enlivened US media's interest in the legacy of a man considered by many a war criminal, and by some a hero. In fact, the supposed heroism of Sharon was at the heart of CNN coverage of his death on January 11. Sharon spent his [...] |
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Israel on Wednesday moved forward with plans for 261 new homes in two settlements located deep in the occupied West Bank, a watchdog said, drawing strong European condemnation. It was the fifth such move in just over two weeks and raised to 2,791 the number of new settler homes announced since the start of the [...]
Jan 23 2014 | Posted in News | Read More »
An Israeli airstrike on Wednesday killed two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip including one accused by Israel of ordering rocket attacks, officials said. Eyewitnesses said Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a car in Beit Hanoun carrying Ahmed Zaanin, 21, and Mahmoud Zaanin, 23, killing them both. They were transported to hospital by ambulance. [...]
Jan 22 2014 | Posted in News | Read More »
Israeli forces injured five Palestinian protesters with rubber-coated steel bullets and caused dozens more to suffer from excessive tear gas inhalation as they dispersed protests across the West Bank on Friday. The weekly protests against the Israeli occupation and separation wall were violently dispersed by Israeli forces in Bilin, al-Masara, Kafr Qaddam, and Tuqu. Bilin [...]
Jan 18 2014 | Posted in News | Read More »
Seven Palestinian refugees were killed and dozens injured late Thursday in a bombing that targeted Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus. The head of the Omari Battalion, a Free Syrian Army militant group, told Ma'an that a military helicopter dropped an explosive barrel on houses in the "Palestine Park" area of the camp. The injured were [...]
Jan 17 2014 | Posted in News | Read More »
Palestinian film, Omar, has been nominated for an Oscar, making it the second-ever film from Palestine to compete for the prestigious film award. The nomination came on Thursday morning when it was announced that it will contest in the best foreign language film category and will go up against Italy's The Great Beauty, which has [...]
Jan 17 2014 | Posted in Features | News | Read More »
Palestinian medical sources say four children and a woman were injured in an Israeli raid on the occupied Gaza Strip after rockets were at Israel. The five Palestinian civilians were hit by shrapnel but their wounds are not life-threatening, the sources told Al Jazeera on Thursday. The military says five rockets fired toward southern Israel [...]
Jan 17 2014 | Posted in News | Read More »
Israeli authorities on Wednesday agreed to free two Palestinian Jerusalemites on the condition that they be deported from Jerusalem, a prisoners' committee spokesman said. Amjad Abu Asab, a spokesman for a committee that represents Jerusalemite prisoners, told Ma'an that Israel agreed to free a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and a former Minister of [...]
Jan 15 2014 | Posted in News | Read More »
Jewish settlers are suspected of setting fire to a mosque's entrance in the occupied West Bank, after last week's beating and detention of Israeli settlers by Palestinians. The perpetrators wrote "Arabs out" and "Revenge for blood spilled in Qusra" in Hebrew on the walls of the mosque in Deir Istiya village on Wednesday, which lies [...]
Jan 15 2014 | Posted in News | Read More »
Israel's former prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has been buried at his ranch kilometres from the occupied Gaza Strip in the southern Negev desert. Eight generals carried Sharon's coffin to the grave on Saturday alongside that of his second wife, as a Jewish cantor intoned a prayer for the dead, the AFP news agency has reported. [...]
Jan 14 2014 | Posted in News | Read More »
Israeli airstrikes on Monday targeted al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip after rockets fired by Palestinians landed in southern Israel. A Ma'an reporter in Gaza said that no injuries were reported but Israeli jets were still overhead. Israeli armed forces said in a statement that planes had "targeted two terror sites in the [...]
Jan 14 2014 | Posted in News | Read More »
 Head of the PLO delegation to Syria Ahmad al-Majdalani said that Islamist militants opened fire at an aid envoy on its way to a besieged refugee camp near Damascus. Al-Majdalani said in statement that meetings would be held with Syrian and Palestinian officials to discuss the next steps, and another delegation will be sent to [...] |
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