Former U.S president urges ‘supine’ Europe to end Gaza embargo
Former U.S President Jimmy Carter, described the EU’s position towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict ‘ supine’, urging the EU to break up with the U.S and lift the embargo on Gaza.…
President Carter: Israel has 150 nuclear weapons
The Former US president Jimmy Carter has broken the silence about Israel’s nuclear power and told reporters at a literary festival in UK on Sunday that Israeli has an arsenal…
Mash’al of Hamas says Palestinians are determined to break up the Israeli blockade
Hamas’s exiled top leader, Khaled Mash’al, reiterated his ruling party’s determination to break up the ongoing Israeli blockade on Gaza, warning of what he termed ‘inactive’ international community’s role towards…
U.S. Presidential candidates voice uncritical support for Israel
U.S. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama made an appearance at a Florida synagogue Thursday in an effort to get support from Jewish voters. Speaking at the the "B'Nai Torah" synagogue in…
Paris asserts its stance towards Hamas has not changed
Paris asserted yesterday that it stance towards Hamas has not changed and that reported contacts with Hamas were done by a former French diplomat and had nothing to do with…
Hamas representatives arrive in Cairo over a new round of truce talks
Palestinian media sources reported on Monday that an official delegation from the ruling Hamas movement in Gaza has arrived in the Egyptian capital to meet Egyptian officials regarding the proposed…
Two Israeli groups call on Israel to participate in a conference to bar cluster bombs
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, issued a press release calling on the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud…
An appeal to Bush to intervene for the release of child, women detainees
Monqith Abu Roomy, head of the media office of Asrana (Our Detainees) center, which defends the rights of Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel, voiced an appeal to the US President,…
Ban Ki-Moon: problem of Palestinian refugees should be solved
United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, said yesterday that it is unacceptable that the problem of Palestinian refugees remain unsolved. During an inauguration ceremony of photo exhibition, marking the 60th…
Bush to visit Israel but not the Palestinian areas
The White House said on Wednesday the during his second visit to the region this year, which is expected to start next week, the U.S President Bush will try to…
Paris proposes installment of an international force in Palestine
Paris has proposed installing an international peace-keeping force in the occupied Palestinian territories, the Israeli Jerusalem Post newspaper reported Sunday. Ac cording to the JP, Israeli Prime Minister, Fransou’ Filoun,…
Message to the US Media
If four Israeli children, ranging from one year old to six years old, were killed by a Palestinian bombing, it would likely make the front page of most major US…
Quartet calls for freezing settlement activities in the West Bank
Members of the Quartet Committee for peace in the Middle East called on Israel to freeze all of its settlement activities in the occupied West Bank, UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon…
British Jews call for boycotting Israel’s independence celebrations
A group of 100 famous academics, authors, actors and public figures of the Jewish population in The United Kingdom signed a letter stating that they will be boycotting the Israeli…
U.S Secretary of States says Washington to keep up sidelining Hamas
U.S Secretary of States, Condoleezza Rice, reiterated yesterday that Washington would keep up sidelining the Islamist Hamas party in Gaza, wondering of what she considered ‘negotiating with a group that…
United Nations concerned over the situation in Gaza
The United Nations voiced yesterday grave concern over the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip in the shadow of strict Israeli blockade and deadly Israeli army attacks. Mr. Ban…
Abbas to leave Washington ’empty handed’
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said that his talks with the US President, George Bush, and US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, have failed in achieving any positive results.Abbas stated that…
Egypt sends forces of policemen to the Rafah crossing
Egyptian security sources reported on Friday that Egyptian authorities sent hundreds of policemen to the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to enforce security and to prevent the Palestinians…
Libyan representative to the UN compares the situation in the Gaza Strip to Nazi Holocaust
Representatives of some Western countries walked out of a session of the UN Security Council on Wednesday after a speech which was delivered by the deputy of the Libyan representive,…
Radio Free Palestine
Calling all community radio broadcasters: You are invited to join an international collaboration and historic radio opportunity. We would like to confirm your station’s participation on Thursday, May 15th. This…
Abbas meets Jordanian Monarch in Washington
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, met on Wednesday with King Abdulla II of Jordan in Washington and discussed with him the outcome of his meeting with the US President George W.…
LA Times: “CIA to submit a report to the congress confirming Israel shelled a Syrian Reactorâ€
The Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday that officials of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) will inform the Congress that Syria and North Korea have secret relations, and that the…
Israel claims it will compensate the family of British reporter killed in 2003
Five years after the Israeli army shot and killed James Miller, a British Cameraman, Israel decided to compensate his family under a deal in which the family would drop its…
Secretary Rice says Hamas should prove willingness towards peace
U.S Secretary of States, Condoleezza Rice, said that Hamas should prove its willingness towards peace by taking some necessary steps. Rice told reporters in the Bahrini capital of Manama, following…
Palestine Granted Full Membership in Inter-Parliamentary Union
The Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) decided on Friday to grant Palestine full membership in the Union as of next October, Palestine News Agency (WAFA) reported.The decision came…
Canadian Union of Postal Workers Votes to Support Boycott of Israel
At their annual national convention, delegates of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)representing 50,000 workers across Canada, voted overwhelmigly in favor of resolution 338/339. The resolution commits the union…
‘I don’t talk to Arabs.. I shoot people like you.’
On Sunday, there were no US flags and lots of Israeli flags in a "street fair" dubbed "Ben Yehuda, Jerusalem Street fair" in Teaneck, NJ. I came a bit early…
U.S Secretary Rice slams ex-US president Carter for planned talks with Hamas
On Friday Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, slammed ex-US president Jimmy Carter for planning to meet Hamas official during his imminant visit to the region. A press release was…
For the second time, Vanunu seeks asylum in Norway
Sources at the Norwegian government stated on Friday that the Israeli Nuclear whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu, filed a second appeal to the Norwegian government to grant him political asylum. The sources…
Belfast Mural commemorates 60th Anniversary of Deir Yassin and Nakba
A mural commemorating the Sixtieth anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre and the Palestinian Nakba was on Friday unveiled in the predominantly Nationalist area of the Falls Road, located in…
Trilateral summit to be held in the Region next May
A senior Palestinian official announced on Tuesday that a trilateral summit attended by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, US President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in addition to…
Solana: reaching a Palestinian- Israeli peace agreement is still possible before the end of 2008
Javier Solana, EU high commissioner on Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday that reaching a resolution of the Israeli Palestinian conflict before the end of 2008 is still possible, indicating that…
Israel, USA to boycott UN anti-racism conference in Durban
Israeli sources reported that Israel and the United States decided to boycott the Durban II Anti-Racism conference which will be conducted in early 2009. The Israeli and US decision was…
BBC Poll: 52% of people worldwide have negative view of Israel
Israel second only to Iran in negative image worldwide, according to the results of a BBC poll released Wednesday. 54% of those polled viewed Iran negatively, and 52% viewed Israel…
Israeli Foreign Ministry rejects appointing a Jewish UN envoy in the Palestinian territories
Israeli daily Newspaper, Maariv, reported on Tuesday that The Israeli Foreign Ministry decided to prevent Professor Richard Black, a high profile Jewish leader at the United Nations, from becoming the…
Hawatmeh: Palestinian factions approve a comprehensive simultaneous, total calm in the West Bank and
Nayef Hawatmeh, Secretary General of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine affirmed on Tuesday that the truce with Israel should be a simultaneous, total and comprehensive one in…
A trilateral Arab summit to be held in Egypt
The daily Arab newspaper of al Hayat based in London reported on Tuesday that Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will arrive in Cairo on Wednesday.The Palestinian president is expected to take…
A New Jewish leftist Group opposing the Israeli occupation formed in Canada
On Sunday a new Jewish leftist movement which opposes the Israeli occupation of Palestine was formed in Canada. The movement calls itself the Jewish Canadian Coalition, and officially announced that…
U.S to verify Israel’s pledge to ease restrictions on Palestinian movement, says Rice
U.S Secretary of States, Condoleezza Rice, said Sunday that the U.S would observe implementation on the ground of Israel’s pledge to ease restrictions on Palestinian movement across the West Bank.…
Masha’al calls upon the Arab leaders to nurture Hamas-Fatah talks
Khalid Masha’al, head of the Hamas’ political bureau, had called on Friday the Arab leaders and their representatives for the Arab summit that will convene on Saturday in Syria to…
President Abbas meets the Jordanian Monarch
Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, held a meeting on Thursday with King Abdullah of Jordan, in Amman, and renewed his rejection of withdrawing or modifying the Arab peace initiative which he…
U.S Vice-President criticizes Palestinian resistance
US Vice-President Dick Cheney expressed the hope that a "viable, democratic and peaceful Palestinian state be born soon" and criticized Palestinian homemade shell fire in to Israeli areas. Cheney was…
Fatah and Hamas continue talks over the Yemeni initiative
Talks between the Hamas and Fatah delegations over the Yemeni initiative had resumed on Saturday in the Yemeni capital of San'a.A'zam al Ahmad, head of the Fatah bloc in the…
The Central Council of Jews in Germany seeks to sue Google
The Central Council of Jews in Germany intends to file a law suit against Google based on claims of "citing racist anti-Jewish ideas." This action was a result of a…
US Protests call for an end to the occupation of Iraq and Palestine
Protests were held throughout the United States on Saturday to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and calling for an end to the dual occupations of…
Ki-moon†Israel should halt excessive force, disproportionate attacks against the Palestiniansâ€
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon , called on Israel to halt its disproportionate and excessive use of force against the Palestinians people. The statement of the UN Chief came during a…
‘Unwavering Commitment’ to Inequality
Death hovered over Gaza long before locally-made Palestinian rockets struck near the Israeli southern town of Sderot on February 27, killing Roni Yechiah and sparking an Israeli ‘retaliation’ that has…
EU Foreign Ministers debate Hamas participation in peace negotiations
EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs debated how to deal with the Hamas movement with regard to the peace negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Hamas has been accused of…
Javier Solana: no peace in the Middle East with settlement construction
Javier Solana High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary-General of the European Union, stated on Monday evening that if Israeli continues to built settlements it would not…
Paris slams ongoing settlement construction
France slammed on Monday the ongoing Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and considered settlement activities as obstacles that are limiting the ability to create a viable Palestinian…
Protest in Paris against Israeli attacks
Paris was the scene of massive nonviolent protests on Saturday against the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and against the visit of Israel’s President, Shimon Peres, to the country…
Security Council holds an urgent meeting following the Jerusalem attack
The Security Council held an urgent session following an attack against a Yeshiva in Jerusalem where eight Israelis were killed and thirty others were injured, including three who suffered serious…
Rice: “Israeli, Palestinian negotiators likely to meet Thursdayâ€
U.S secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, stated on Wednesday in Jerusalem that Palestinian and Israeli negotiators are likely to meet on Thursday after they were halted when Israeli initiated its…
Bush “optimistic†about peace
US president, George Bush, stated on Tuesday that he is still “optimistic that Israel and the Palestinians will achieve a peace deal” before he leaves office in ten months, despite…
Rice arrives to Egypt and accuses Hamas of weakening the peace process
Condoleezza Rice, the U.S Secretary of State, arrived at Egypt’s capital Cairo, on first stop during her visit to Middle East.Rice is expected to arrive in Israeli on Tuesday afternoon.…
Bush to send 150 Million USD to the Palestinian president to facilitate peace process
The White house announced on Friday that that U.S President Bush has completed preparations to send 150 Million USD in aid, as a matter of urgency to Palestinian President Mahmoud…
Rice concerned over humanitarian conditions in Gaza
The U.S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stated that she ‘had concerns’ over the Israeli attacks on the Palestinian Gaza Strip, due to the recurring deaths of Palestinian civilians…
EU’s Human Rights Subcommittee concerned for the lives of Palestinian Detainees
Members of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the European Union met on Wednesday with the Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Ashraf Al Ajrami, and Fadwa Ibrahim, of the Free Marwan Barghouthi…
Abbas accuses the rival Hamas movement of aiding Al Qaida
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah movement accused their rivals Hamas of providing aid to Al Qaeda to establish a base of operations in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.…
Jordanian police arrest five they suspect of being Hamas spies
The BBC reported on Wednesday that the Jordanian police arrested five men, believed to be spies for the Palestinian Hamas movement. According to BBC arabic.com, the five were taking photos…
Morgantini calls for transparent inquiry into the death of Barghouthi
EU Parliament Vice President, Luisa Morgantini, called on the Palestinian National Authority, President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad to hold an independent and serious inquiry into the death…
Abbas and Olmert are pessimistic that a peace deal will be achieved by the end of 2008
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Israeli Prime Minister Ehod Olmert were pessimistic about achieving a peace deal by the end of 2008, Palestinian and Israeli sources reported on Tuesday.…
Israeli media: Qatar is willing to mediate a truce between Hamas and Israel
Israeli media sources reported on Monday that the Qatari Foreign Minister Shikh Hamad Bin- Jassem al-Thani said that his country is willing to mediate a truce between Hamas and Israel.…
Dozens of protests held worldwide calling for an end to Gaza siege
In partnership with Popular Committee Against the Siege (PCAS), Friends of freedom and Justice-Bilin, and Gaza On My Mind, dozens of groups worldwide held protests in solidarity with the people…
Egypt’s ambassador to Washington: my country wants Gaza no more isolated
The Egyptian ambassador to Washington, Nabil Fahmy, stated yesterday that his country will not allow Gaza to be isolated from the outside world. ‘ Cairo will make every possible effort…
Covering Palestine: How US Media Betrayed Its Public
Free media is an important institution in a democracy. The media in a democratic society must be responsible for conveying the sort of facts and analysis that is necessary for…
Fayyad: Palestinian-Israel negotiations will not reach a peace deal this year
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad stated his doubts on Tuesday over the progress Palestinian-Israeli talks will achieve in reaching a peace deal this year.Prime Minister Fayyad revealed that his doubts…
London School of Economics students vote to divest from Israel
Joining a growing list of high-profile institutions, unions and citizen’s groups that have chosen to divest from Israel, the Student Union at the prestigious London School of Economics voted overwhelmingly…
Washington to ask for clarification from Israel regarding new settlement activities
Spokespman of the U.S State Department, Jhom Mackromk, stated on Wednesday that the American administration will ask for clarifications from Israel with respect to a new settlement project on the…
The Palestinian PM: Israeli is not fulfilling it’s obligations
On Tuesday, the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad accused Israeli of not fulfilling its obligations regarding the freezing of all settlement activity in the West Bank and not removing the…
UK Student Societies, NGO’s, to launch antiapartheid week on Monday
Several nongovernmental organizations and student societies in the United Kingdom are set to launch the Antiapartheid week in order to protest the Israeli apartheid policies on Monday February 11, 2008.…
The Israeli army kills one Lebanese civilian and kidnaps another at the borders with Israel
Lebanese media sources reported on Monday that the Israeli army shot and killed one Lebanese civilian and kidnapped another from a village at the southern Lebanese Israeli borders on Sunday…
The UN Security Council fails to condemn Israel
The United Nations Security Council failed on Tuesday evening to issue a statement condemning Israel for its siege on Gaza.The Libyan representative of the UN, who this month holds the…
Arabs, Russians, protest against Israel’s siege over the Gaza Strip
Hundreds of Arabs and Russians protested in Moscow on Tuesday against the unjust Israeli siege over the Gaza Strip and demanded the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Jerusalem…
Protests across the US call for an end to Gaza siege
Over the weekend, protests were held in a number of US cities and towns calling on Israel to end the imprisonment of 1.5 million Palestinians inside Gaza without access to…
Around 5.000 protested opposite Downing Street today to call for end of siege of Gaza
Around 5.000 protested opposite Downing Street in London on Satrurday, residence of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, calling for Israel’s brutal illegal siege of Gaza to be immediately lifted.They were joined…
Members of the Montreal Palestinian community react to the humanitarian crisis provoked by the Block
We, as members of the Palestinian community in Montreal, are worried about the plight of the people in the Gaza strip who are currently under siege. The Israeli government by…
UN Security Council fails again to condemn the Israeli Siege imposed on Gaza
The United Nations Security Council failed again on Friday to issue a statement calling for the end of the Israeli imposed siege on the Gaza Strip and the halt of…
International protests continue against the Israeli Siege on Gaza
Several protests were organize on Friday evening in several European cities, the protests had one thing in common they all called for the immediate left of the Israeli siege imposed…
The Palestinian National Conference in Damascus calls for Unity
In a joint statement issued on Thursday by all the participants in the Palestinian National Conference for Palestinian National Rights said that this conference is to bring unity to the…
Vigil in Montreal Against Gaza Siege
Dozens of Palestinians and Canadians held a vigil on Wednesday in Montreal – Canada, against the ongoing and unjust Israeli siege and attacks against the Palestinian residents in the Gaza…
Washington hampers UN decision against the Israeli siege of Gaza
USA blocks statement by the UN Security Council criticizing the Israeli siege of the Gaza strip. The US representative in the UN, Zalman Zad, said that this statement ‘is not…
Emergency session of UN Security Council called to deal with Gaza crisis
The United Nations Security Council has called for an emergency session on Tuesday to respond to the heightening crisis in the Gaza Strip. The crisis came to a head Sunday…
British group calls for protest of Israeli siege on Gaza
A British peace group has called for protests against the Israeli government, after Gaza’s only power station was forced to shut down Sunday, when Israel cut fuel supplies to the…
Mashal slams the Palestinian Authority
Khalid Mashal the President of the Hamas political bureau expressed dissatisfaction towards the Arabic and International communities silence towards the continued daily attacks on the Palestinians by Israeli.Mashal also expressed…
Rice lowers expectations shortly before Bush’s arrival to Palestine and Israel
In an interview with the BBC World Service, US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, lowered expectations in terms of likely outcomes of President George W. Bush’s visit to the region…
Israeli settlement financier moves to bulletproof mansion in London
Lev Leviev, Israel's richest man, and a major funder of the illegal Israeli settlements scattered across Palestinian land, has bought himself a $70 million bulletproof mansion in the suburbs of…
US President encourages Israel to remove a small number of the 300 existing W. Bank settlements
In the lead-up to his first ever visit to the Middle East as President of the U.S., George W. Bush stated Friday that he is encouraging Israel to take down…
South Africa says Israel defies international law
No country in the world has been able to defy international law as much as Israel in the four decades since the Six Day War, the South African government said…
Amnesty: Israel killed more than 650 Palestinians in 2006
In May the human rights group Amnesty International released its 2007 report on “Israel and the Occupied Territories,” summarising 2006. During the year Israel killed more than 650 Palestinians, which…
Fighthing Spreads to Ein al Hilweh Refugee Camp in Lebanon
Recent infighting in Lebanon has spread to the Ein al Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp. Reports say that two Lebanese soldiers were killed as they fought Jund al Sham militants in…
Israeli response to benchmark plan expected to request a ‘slowing-down’ of the process
Haaretz.com reported on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is set to deliver his official response to the American benchmark plan. It is expected that Olmert will ask the…
Amnesty report harshly criticizes 40 years of Israeli occupation
In a special report published on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories Monday, Amnesty International accused Israel of widespread human rights abuses.…
Hamas delegation rejects Gaza-specific ceasefire
The Hamas delegation to Egypt has reportedly rejected any ceasefire with Israel which does not apply to both the West Bank and Gaza Strip.In negotiations currently being held in Egypt,…
Obama outlines Middle East vision
US Senator and potential Democratic presidential nomination Barack Obama has outlined his vision for the Middle East, arguing that peace in the region will only be secured through “a clear…
Newly-released British intelligence documents reveal Israeli involvement in 1976 hijacking
The hijacking of an Israel-bound plane in 1976 by a Palestinian resistance group was used by multiple Israeli administrations as justification for their continued military occupation of Palestinian land. Yitzhak…
Barghouthi welcomes Norway’s decision to resume Palestine aid
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Palestinian Minister of Information welcomed on Friday Norway’s decision to resume direct aid to the Palestinian people. Barghouthi, who is the spokesperson of the Palestinian government, said…
Norway resumes direct aid to the Palestinian Authority
Unlike members of the quartet, Norway has ignored the international financial embargo placed on the Palestinian Authority and has resumed with direct aid to the administration.In a statement released to…
Largest UK Union may join boycott of Israel
The largest union in the United Kingdom, UNISON, will vote on a proposal to boycott Israeli products at their annual meeting in June. The union, with 1.4 million members, represents…
British Academics did the right thing
Incensed by the brutal ugliness of Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinians, members of Britain’s University and College Union (UCU) have voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions.The vote, passed Wednesday, 30…