Palestine

ISLAM, Christianity and Judaism all believe in the coming of the leader of the great and final battle whom they all call the Messiah. The Jews are looking forward to his coming, because they claim he will bring about God's ...

ISRAEL and Hamas pledged to start a cease-fire in a bid to end a year of fighting that has killed more than 400 Palestinians and seven Israelis. The deal comes as Israel also urged Lebanon to open peace talks. ...

BASKING in their usual insolence and self-absorbedness, Israeli leaders have been visibly irate over the highlighted commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the destruction and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian community in 1948. Foreign Minister Tzipi ...

DUBAI: Osama bin Laden vowed in an audio tape to mark Israel's 60th anniversary to continue to fight Israel and its allies in the West. The al Qaeda leader, who has placed growing emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian ...

AS the Palestinian people prepare to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba ("catastrophe") - the dispossession and expulsion of most of our people from our land ...

A ZIONIST cleric has urged the Israeli regime to give the green light to the massacre of Arabs in retaliation for Palestinian attacks. In an article published in the newsletter Eretz Yisrael Shelanu Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief ...

RIVAL Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have come to terms with signing a deal to revive direct talks after months of rivalry. The two factions reconvened in San'a on Sunday in an effort to hammer out a compromise over ...

JUST a mild appeal from Washington to Israel to “consider the consequences” after the Jewish state began to carry out a “holocaust” in Gaza is reflective of America’s lopsided foreign policy vis-à-vis the Middle East. The chilly warning by a ...

EVER since the Annapolis summit last November brokered by the USA, there have been a lot of activities taking place in the Middle East with several dignitaries dashing in to relax the tensions and mediate a truce, if possible ...

This is not a joke (and this is not a week for jokes). It is a lesson in psychology. I was reminded of it when I read Ehud Olmert's statement that more than anything else he was furious about the ...

IF the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s most intractable, much the same can be said of the parallel debate about whether its resolution can best be achieved by a single state embracing the two peoples living there or ...

CURRENT Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is not the first Israeli prime minister suspected or being investigated for bribery, influence paddling and criminal activities. 4 other Prime Ministers Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Areil Sharon who preceded him were ...

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 already claimed over 120 Palestinian lives. Yechiah’s death was ...

WAR creates a world without empathy. Those who have empathy cannot, as did Palestinian gunman Alaa Hisham Abu Dheim, coldly murder students in a Jerusalem library. Those who have empathy cannot drop tons of iron fragmentation bombs on crowded Palestinian ...

A PALESTINIAN killed eight Israeli students in a settler movement training centre, in retaliation for Israel’s massacre of over a hundred Gazans, mostly civilians. Hundreds of the seminary students later chanted “Death to the Arabs” at the gates of their ...

A Heart-breaking Palestinian story!! This has been going on for SIXTY YEARS!!! Please listen to what the old man says.....because the whole world does not want to hear what he says specially Arab governments and ...

ISRAELI Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai’s much publicised remark last week about Gaza facing a “shoah” -- the Hebrew word for the Holocaust -- was widely assumed to be unpleasant hyperbole about the army’s plans for an imminent full-scale invasion ...

ONCE more, as Israel continues its ruthless attacks on the Palestinian population (against both civilians and resistance fighters), mainstream media outlets direct the blame on the victims. This time the villain is none other than the democratically elected Palestinian resistance ...

I'd like to beg all viewers to spread this image anywhere, as a way to expose Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. Use it on t-shirts, posters, banners. Reproduce it in zines, papers, magazines, and make it visible everywhere. ...

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 already claimed over 120 Palestinian lives. ...