Category: Miscellaneous

Thousands of Palestinian marched through the streets of Jenin on Monday to mark the fourth anniversary of what they term the Jenin massacre — an Israeli assault on the refugee…

Like the blinded Samson, America has great power but cannot see its obvious use. Hamas running Gaza, contrary to what our politicians and pundits are saying, is an opportunity to…

The shells keep falling. They’ve gotten inside my head, so that its not just my house shaking but but my brain throbbing. It’s like someone is banging a gong next…

{mosimage}Saturday has become a strange day of rest for the families from Anata, East Jerusalem. Parents go about their work without the anxiety of going to the secondary school gates…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health slammed the Israeli decision to ban the entry of medication to the Gaza Strip, and the American and the European Union decision to halt all…

The bypass roads, checkpoints, land confiscation and Wall construction, which the city of Qalqilia into a prison housing 45 thousand Palestinians, were not enough for the Israeli government. Israeli soldiers…

Apparently bypass roads, checkpoints, land annexation and Wall construction, which turned the city of Qalqilia into a prison housing 45 thousand Palestinians, were not enough for the Israeli government. Yet,Israeli…

Large crowds, estimated at tens of thousands, marched on Saturday in the funeral procession of Eyad Abulineen, a Palestinian resistance fighter of Rafah, along with his 7-year old son Belal…

The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, says Israel’s plan to impose its final borders deep inside the occupied territories while expropriating large areas of Palestinian land for Jewish settlers will lead…

According to the repeated statements of official representatives of United states and Europ, International interest in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is based on historical responsibilities to both sides of the conflict, the…

Sixty-two-year-old Shafiqa Massoud is, for all intents and purposes, the head of the household. Hers is a typical peasant family that lives in the Qalqilya area directly up against the…

Now that the Palestinians have made their democratic choice, granting the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas its overwhelming majority of votes in January’s Palestinian Legislative Council elections, the time has come…

It is hard to believe that my own society which survived millennia in Palestine, is now begging to retain 20% of its legal property. Not too long ago, I conducted…

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‘Against the Wall’ is a strong presentation about the truth and realities on both sides of the ‘fence’. Against the Wall, Ed. by Michael Sorkin. New Press, N. Y., 2005.…

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya told the first meeting of the Hamas-led cabinet that the government is facing a severe financial crisis, saying, "The Ministry of Finance has inherited an…

I seem to recall that the East Germans called the Berlin Wall – or ‘Berlin Fence’ as I suppose we would have to call it if built by the Israelis…

Attallah Abu al-Sibbah is keen to demonstrate that Hamas is not the Taliban. As the new Palestinian culture minister, he will not be ordering the dynamiting of statues nor forbidding…

Decent human beings see hypocrisy when current US Foreign policy (CUSFP) stands for rights of refugees from Darfur but against the rights of Palestinian refugees.  This is not the first…

Readers must be cautioned that ‘right,’ left and ‘center are relative terms: they have substantially different meaning in the Israeli political context. “Israel votes for disengagement and final borders” and…

The organization, Women Against the Occupation and for Human Rights, known as Checkpoint Watch, is unable to open its photo exhibit entitled Checkpoints Without Borders. The Teaching Center in the…

Homecoming, between dwelling and settling Inspired by Heidegger’s “Elucidations of Holderlin’s Poetry,”(1) the question to be asked is: What is meant by homecoming? How do people transform a place into…

Constructive discussions or academic talks on Israel need an unbiased attitude, juridical approach and humanist values towards the Arabs particularly the Palestinians who have been losing their campaign for freedom…

Israeli and Palestinian political commentators are calling the recent Israeli election results a political ‘earthquake’. From what I can tell, they are using the term not because the results have…

A Palestinian medical source in Alia governmental hospital in Hebron, south of the West Bank, reported on Sunday evening that one Palestinian resident was suffered fractures, concussions and bruises to…

Each Palestinian has a special place in their heart for Rachel Corrie. She symbolized strength, perseverance, and self assuredness. Conversely, she was labeled an enemy of Israel, a nuisance of…

Britain’s apparent complicity in Israel’s military assault on Jericho prison should finally demolish an enduring myth about Britain’s foreign policy. Iraq’s supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction was not…

In this week’s report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights revealed a number of violations of international law by Israeli…

A few kilometers away from the continuous Israeli heavy shelling in the northeastern Gaza Strip on Saturday, April 1, in the heart of Gaza City, several local Palestinians were enjoying…

Since September 2000, more than 800 Palestinian children have been killed. . .Who will take responsibility for her death? Who shall be held accountable? On 18 March 2006, I visited…

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A European Union (EU) delegation has visited Gaza to get a fresh perspective on food shortages following the Israeli closure of a critical checkpoint. The delegation, consisting of 16 heads…

Israeli army arrested 35 Palestinians in different cities and villages of the West Bank on Thursday before noon, in several military invasions, Palestinian news network reported. The bulk of arrest…

The Palestinian Hamas-formed government sworn in by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza city on Wednesday, marking the tenth Palestinian government since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in…

Many scholars continue to recommend the need for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations while overlooking the harsh reality that Israel is on a predetermined course. Short of ideologically realizing the vision of the…

Ramallah’s twin-city of Al Bireh in the West Bank is having a crisis with its dead. The Israeli authorities are preventing construction of a new cemetery. There is no where…

The Palestinian parliament approved in its session on Tuesday the new Palestinian cabinet formed by the majority party Hamas led by Prime Minister Ismael Haniya. The government, which is the…

A cheering face with a broad smile is how Said Fahmi Salah, 40-year-old  local farmer and a father of 20 children,  receives journalists who happen upon his home in the…

Saeb Erikat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, recently warned that Mahmoud Abbas, the president, might "embark on dismantling" the Palestinian Authority (PA) if Israel continued to carry out "acts of piracy"…

For more than a quarter century, Israeli policy has been in conflict with that of the United States and the international community. Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory has obstructed a…

A large Israeli forces of almost 20 military vehicles invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem in the early hours of Monday morning. Troops invaded several Palestinians houses in the…

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On July 18, 2005, 14-year-old Ragheb Al Masri sat in the back of a taxi with his parents at the Abu Holi checkpoint. An Israeli bullet penetrated his back and…

Israel exists as a major military force in the world and a silent member of the nuclear club. Yet it cries wolf that Hamas threatens its existence. On the third…

As an aid to the besieged Gaza Strip; Egyptian food trucks crossed the Karem Salem Crossing, East of Rafah city in the south of Gaza, Wednesday morning. The trucks carry…

Sabar, 11, walks around the southern town of Tel Arad barefoot. He limps, has a severe disability and bad eyesight, and has difficulty lifting objects with his hands. His father,…

Family of the two Palestinian prisoners, Azzam Abu Adas, and Bilal Hafnawi from Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus denied on Wednesday, allegations of linkage of…

United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has brought Britain’s standing in the Arab and Muslim worlds to its lowest point for half a century. By withdrawing British monitors from a…

In an age in which the South Americans are slowly re-asserting their rights to decide their own futures it is sad to see Palestine moving the other way. Dear Editor:…

The origins of the March 14 Israeli raid of a Palestinian prison in Jericho are rooted in another Israeli raid on a Palestinian city in 2001. On August 27 of…

Israeli Authorities reopened the Mintar( Karni) Crossing Tuesday morning in order to allow the entrance of essential foodstuffs, mainly grains and vegetables, into the impoverished Gaza Strip — home to…

As the new Hamas government is sworn into power in the Palestinian Authority, we might ask: What would bring a people, the most secular of Arab populations with little history…

The announcement of an extended closure was made at the weekly cabinet meeting by right-wing Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, who had initially ordered the closure to remain in force…

In the midst of journalism’s "Sunshine Week"–during which the Associated Press and other news organizations are valiantly proclaiming the public’s "right to know"–AP insists on conducting its own activities in…

The Palestinians are on the verge of a humanitarian crisis, as the UN warns, not just because of food shortage caused by Israeli closures but also because their agriculture-dependent territories…

Hamas has submitted its cabinet list to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday.  The new cabinet includes, 14 ministers from the West Bank, 10 from Gaza Strip, including one…

More than 54,000 Palestinians suffer from the problem of not having an identity card, either by not being registered with the Israeli authorities at birth, or by having foreign nationalities.…

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If there were poetic justice, if Hollywood or the publishing industry had true courage, the story of Rachel Corrie would be coming to a big screen or bookstore near you.…

Hamas’ guidelines are helping Israel: They depict a religious and cultural clash, outside the framework of the people’s struggle against foreign occupiers The Palestinians are busy forming a government. It…

The events overtaking Palestine are eerily reminiscent of 1948. Unfolding today in the occupied territories is another disaster of historic proportions, evocative of Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence. Israeli expansion, colonization, and…

All of the bakeries in the Gaza Strip are closed.  Dependent on imports of flour, the 1.2 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, the most crowded place on earth…

The Israeli attack on Jericho and kidnap of a number of Palestinian prisoners, including the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) demonstrates once again the…

The Israeli army has decided to extend the closure imposed on the Palestinian territories until next Saturday. Army claims receiving several warnings of possible attacks against Israeli targets. The Palestinian…

Sunday night was a horrible night for fourteen year old Hamza Fawzi Iweida. He was beaten, abducted, tied to a chair and insulted, after being asked for his identity card…

Report: "We have now obtained previously top-secret papers which show not only that Norway was a mere cover for the Israel deal, but that Britain made hundreds of other secret…

Another act of aggression by the Israeli state, emboldened by western governments’ hostility to Hamas. Al-Jazeera is broadcasting footage of a brutal Israeli raid on a prison in the Palestinian…

A report from the Palestine National Information Center released on Tuesday revealed that 4,298 Palestinian people have been killed since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada on September 29, 2000. Of…

Additional reports of intense suffering are coming from Israel’s Telmond Prison where several Palestinian children are imprisoned in Department Seven. In a interview with PNN, one of the children reported,…

Published by The Independent   You’ve got to fight. It’s the only conclusion I can draw as I see the renewed erosion of our freedom to discuss the Middle East.…

The following is the letter I wrote to the artistic director of the New York Theatre Workshop, Mr. James Nicola, regarding the cancellation of the play "My Name is Rachel…

Israeli officials, while simultaneously demanding recognition from newly-elected Hamas, are lobbying for recognition of Palestine to be denied. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is mired in a…

Israeli officials, while simultaneously demanding recognition from newly-elected Hamas, are lobbying for recognition of Palestine to be denied. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is mired in a…

Maybe you never got the chance to know tom fox. i just learned of his death — an announcement i have been dreading, but almost expecting, since the video released…

Israeli forces tightened the closure on Tulkarem area in the north west of the West Bank in the early hours of Monday morning, Palestine News Network reported. Troops closed all…

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The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported that Israeli soldiers killed seven residents of the Gaza Strip,  five of whom were children. Of the five children who were killed this…

Hamas leader, Ismael Haniya, the Palestinian Prime Minister-elect, said there are no signs of crisis between Fatah and Hamas,  and described his meeting with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as…

An Open Letter to Jim Nicola, Artistic Director, New York Theater Workshop I write an open letter to encourage you to set a firm date for the opening of "My…

In keeping with the stated Israeli policy to "put the Palestinians on a diet, but not starve them" (as stated by governmental advisor Dov Weisglass), Israeli forces stationed in Gaza…

Jewish settlers are able to "terrorize" Palestinians with impunity, intimidating children on their way to school and destroying farmers’ trees and crops, a United Nations expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…

As a result of the Israeli closing of the Karni crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip since February 12, Palestinian greenhouse owners in Gaza have incurred $450,000 in damages…

The Israeli police in Jerusalem released Ahmad Attoun, a newly elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) from the Hamas bloc, after detaining him for three hours.Attoun was arrested…

The Palestinian Maan News Agency reported that the Israeli Police in Jerusalem arrested Palestinian Legislative Council member Ahamad Attoun, member of Hamas, while heading to meet other PLC members of…

Palestinian women are not a marginal part of the Palestinian struggle against the occupation, they are major participants in the Palestinian struggle for national liberation.“They are mothers, sisters, daughters and…

New York City has long been considered an international hub of modernity and diversity, and yet bringing “Made in Palestine” to the Big Apple has been a ferocious battle.  …

Imagine someone grabbed you by the throat, threw you on the ground, and began pummeling you in the head and chest. Would you be inclined to address him serenely saying,…

Israeli military bulldozers leveled on Tuesday a Palestinian house and a farm in Beit Iksa village, north west of Jerusalem. Army claims that the two constructions were built without obtaining…

After an ‘extra-judicial killing gone wrong’ resulted in the deaths of three innocent children, one of them just 8 years old, on Monday in the Gaza Strip, an outcry has…

The ongoing Israeli military siege, closure and economic and social restrictions imposed on Palestinians have contributed to extremely high unemployment and poverty rates in the Gaza Strip, and a food…

For most of the half century that the Jados have lived on a rocky slope between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, they could travel freely. Then Israel built a barrier between the…

Resistance is logical, correct and an internationally recognized right. The rest is just propaganda, useful for the oppressors, not the victims. Day after day, unabated since the victory of Hamas…

Al-Aqsa Martyr brigade the armed wing of Fatah opposition party said its operatives fired two home-made shells at Kissufim crossing between Israel and Gaza Strip causing no casualties, Palestine News…

Twice a day, every day small groups of women (up to five members) set out for checkpoints around the West Bank, from Jenin in the north, to Hebron in the…

The Gaza Strip, the most crowded place on earth, home to 1.2 million Palestinian people, and mainly dependent on outside food supplies, is facing a severe food crisis as Israeli…

The coming weeks offer an unparalleled opportunity to leapfrog over the long comatose "peace process" and actually achieve peace in the Holy Land. All that is needed is some clear,…

Last October, when Prof. Ilan Pappe was visiting the San Francisco Bay Area, he was interviewed by Steve Zeltzer for his Labor Video Project cable TV program. This is the…

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The Palestinian Center For Human Rights reported that Israeli soldiers killed eight residents, shot injured 36 residents, and arrested forty residents in several invasions carried in the West Bank. One…

Israeli police released two East Jerusalem Palestinian lawmakers after detaining them for few hours in Talbiot investigation centre. Israeli Police arrests two Hamas legislators in Jerusalem Saed Bannoura-IMEMC & Agenices,…