Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Jerusalem burns. Thermometers peaked yesterday around 31 degrees. But Jerusalem is burning not only from the hot Saharan wind, known as the Khamasin, coming in from the desert, but by the rage of its Arab residents over the injustices they face once more. Written by Malika Malini.
Once again, Muslim worshipers ...
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Revelations in the Israeli media concerning Mahmoud Abbas and former aide Rafiq Husseini should surprise no-one. Slurs comes thick and fast against perceived enemies of Israel, from presidents to charities. To list the Palestinian victims of media assassination would take forever, so we chose some of the more surprising targets.
Human ...
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Achieving a just and lasting peace in the Middle East is for the United States not only a matter of national security but a moral calling. The United States is the designated third party in this protracted conflict, both because we are the world's only superpower and by sheer dint ...
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
A "regional economic power." That's how ANIMA, the Euro-Mediterranean Network of Investment Promotion Agencies encompassing 70 governmental agencies and international
networks, described Israel in its January 2010 Mediterranean Investment Map. The report analyzed the economies of the 27 European Union countries as well as 9 "partner countries."
And who can argue. Touting ...
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
The circus named Berlusconi has left town. During his whistle stop tour of Israel and the West Bank the world's most flamboyant head of state was at his crowd pleasing best. Crying with Netanyahou during a speech to the Knesset, delivering a set of priceless Da Vinci sketches to a ...
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
"Expectations were too high". "We overestimated our ability". Time magazine's interview with the President made for grim reading, unless you're Israeli. Obama's claim that "divisions within their societies" made "meaningful conversation...very hard" can be taken as a significant climb-down from the bold stance taken in Cairo.
It begs the question-what was ...
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Under the cover of the incessant noise from the roads in the Hebron district, an anonymous Arab is perpetrating a serious crime: With a small hammer, he is digging a cistern so he can collect rainwater on his rocky land. Other such criminals have other methods of carrying out their ...
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouthi said on Sunday that returning to negotiations with Israel is not possible until a complete settlement standstill, including in occupied East Jerusalem, is enforced, as well as population growth, during a reception for the European Council.
Gilo settlement, southwestern outskirts of Jerusalem. ...
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
The farce of the climate summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an internationalism linking justice for the planet with universal human rights, and criminal justice for those who invade and dispossess ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Alarming news was reported last week in both Palestinian and Israeli newspapers, accounting a new Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip.
(See the article by Bradley Burston, appeared on Haaretz “Israel's looming war in Gaza: Can Obama stop it before it starts?) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages... MP Dr Mustafa Barghouthi commented yesterday that ...
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