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Netanyahu to Stage hunger Strike against World Peace – Satire
In a last ditch effort to block an impending nuclear deal between Western powers and Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced today, April 1,…
Apr 1 2015 / Read More » /
Eight Urgent ‘Musts’ Needed for Palestinians to Defeat Apartheid
By Ramzy Baroud Waiting on Israeli society to change from within is a colossal waste of time, during which the suffering of an entire nation…
Apr 1 2015 / Read More » /
In Politics, Talk is Cheap
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough reminds the Palestinian people of a lesson they learnt the hard way from the…
Mar 31 2015 / Read More » /
Land Day: A Day of Reckoning, 39 Years Later
By Jamal Kanj If you are like me, I am sure you are tired of reading about the results of the last Israeli election. Or…
Mar 31 2015 / Read More » /
Taking the Long Run in Palestine
By Annie Slemrod On a crisp Ramallah evening, much of the city appears to be tucked inside the city’s cafes sipping hot tea. But 20…
Mar 27 2015 / Read More » /
Netanyahu the Mythbuster: ‘Special Relationship’ No More
By Ramzy Baroud Imagine if an American presidential candidate made a plea to his supporters on election day with the following statement: “The Republican administration…
Mar 25 2015 / Read More » /
For Hamza: Arms Sanctions against Israel’s Everyday Terrorism
“By This is for the child that is searching for an answer, I wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter, Long…
Mar 25 2015 / Read More » /
West Punished Palestine When It Voted Freely; Endorses Israel’s Vote for Occupation
By Ghada Ageel The 2006 elections were an amazing demonstration of Palestinian democracy in its multi-coloured beauty. The people under occupation expressed their determination to…
Mar 23 2015 / Read More » /
Netanyahu’s ‘Flip-Flop’ and the Willful Blindness of the Mainstream Media
By Jeremy R. Hammond When Benjamin Netanyahu declared this week that he would work to prevent a Palestinian state from being established if reelected…
Mar 23 2015 / Read More » /
International Women’s Day at Qalandiya
By Tamar Fleishman Around a thousand Palestinian women and some men marched on the main road leading from Ramallah to Qalandiya checkpoint. The women waved…
Mar 22 2015 / Read More » /
Israel Votes Apartheid
By Neve Gordon Benjamin Netanyahu is truly a magician. Just this past Friday, most polls indicated that his Likud party would likely receive around 21…
Mar 19 2015 / Read More » /
Netanyahu’s Victory: Now What President Obama?
By Alan Hart “Love him (Netanyahu) or hate him, this is the face of Israel.” That’s how Uriel Heilman concluded an article for the JTA…
Mar 18 2015 / Read More » /
‘Islamic State’ as a Western Phenomenon: Reimagining the IS Debate
By Ramzy Baroud It is as if leaders of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) are getting tips on demonising Muslims from world leading Islamophobes and…
Mar 18 2015 / Read More » /
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April 4, 2015
UN Official Confirms Israeli Soldiers Launched Attacks from inside Gaza School
A senior UN official has confirmed that the Israeli military turned a school in the Gaza Strip into a military base during July's ground offensive. The comments last week by Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui corroborate a report that was published in The Times on August 5 ('Invaders turn abandoned school into command base'). - Addressing a Security Council... More → -
April 4, 2015
US Rejects Netanyahu's Demand for Iranian Recognition of Israel Read
The US State Department rejected over the weekend Israel’s demand that any final deal with Iran on its nuclear program include recognition of Israel’s right to exist, saying that was not the issue at hand. - “This is an agreement that is only about the nuclear issue,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters on Friday night, according to Fox News. “This is an agreement that doesn’t deal with... More → -
April 4, 2015
The Collapse of the Obama Doctrine in Yemen
For a long time, the US seemed invulnerable to what even Yemen analysts admit is an intricate subject to understand, let alone attempt to explain in a straightforward manner. TheUS drones buzzed overheadindependent from all of this. They “took out” whomever they suspected was an al-Qaeda affiliate. President Barack Obama was even revealed to have approved of a “secret kill list,” and agreed to considercounting... More → -
April 4, 2015
Liberal Democrats Sympathize with Palestinians over Israel by 68-60: Pew
Look at these numbers from a March 2015 Pew research poll closely. Overall, they state that Americans sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians. But drill down in the Democratic numbers and you see a different story. - Democrats sympathize with Israel over Palestinians– by just 57 to 54. That is a horse race, in one of our major political parties. - And now look at Liberal Dems: They sympathize with Palestinians... More → -
April 2, 2015
Widespread Searches after Israeli Settler Goes Missing near Hebron
Israeli forces erected checkpoints and carried out searches across wide swathes of the southern West Bank Thursday amid reports that an Israeli had been captured by unknown assailants. - The reports said that two Israeli settlers had stopped on the side of the road south of the village of Beit Einun north of Hebron to repair a flat tire. - Israeli Channel 2 said that one of the settlers entered the village to get a... More →
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UN Official Confirms Israeli Soldiers Launched Attacks from inside Gaza School
US Rejects Netanyahu’s Demand for Iranian Recognition of Israel Read
IS Pushes further into Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Liberal Democrats Sympathize with Palestinians over Israel by 68-60: Pew
Widespread Searches after Israeli Settler Goes Missing near Hebron
Tehran and World Powers Reach Solutions on Iran Nuclear Program
Israel to Send African Migrants to ‘Third Country’
Gazans Hope ICC Will Make ‘Israel Pay’
Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure 3 Palestinians in Southern Gaza
Boehner: Administration Treatment of Bibi ‘Reprehensible’
