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10 March 2008, by URI AVNERY
The Five-Day War in Gaza
I was reminded this week of the old tale about a Jewish mother taking leave of her son, who has been called up to serve in the Czar’s army against the Turks. "Don’t exert yourself too much," (...) -
9 March 2008
The Gaza Strip: A Humanitarian Implosion
"The Gaza Strip: A Humanitarian Implosion" report was issued by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, Amnesty International, CARE International UK, Christian Aid, Medecins du Monde UK, (...) -
8 March 2008, by Mohammed Omer
No Day Is a Woman’s Day in Gaza
Mahasen Darduna suffers in ways the world recognises; her suffering comes at the hands of the Israelis. But there are many Palestinian women whose suffering the world does not see, because their (...) -
8 March 2008, by Phyllis Bennis
MULTIPLE CRISES RISING IN MIDDLE EAST
As the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War approaches amid a renewed rise in violence, once-claimed U.S. regional goals of "democratization," "stability," "freedom" are overwhelmed by violent, (...) -
7 March 2008, by Ahmad Jarada
People Resists
Israeli attacks on populated neighborhoods in Gaza caused many civilian casualties and left many homeless. The Israeli military announced its redeployment and withdrew from the places in Gaza (...) -
7 March 2008, by Michael Warschawski
The Butchers Olmert and Barak and International Responsibility
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the Knesset. More than 100 Gazans were massacred by Israeli shelling and bombardments in the last few of days and the list (...) -
7 March 2008, by Paul Rogers
The war over there
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are near-invisible in the United States election. That may not last. The frenzy of the presidential election season in the United States means that the wars in (...) -
7 March 2008, by ROBIN BLACKBURN
The ’Right War’?
Barack Obama evidently needs to sharpen up his act. Probably most urgent is his need to develop a more radical economic program. But he should also reconsider his posture on the US mission in (...) -
7 March 2008, by Women’s Coalition
Women Speak Out
Women’s Coalition on Peace Memorandum to The National Dialogue & Reconciliation Committee’s Eminent Persons Serena Hotel, Nairobi March 1, 2008 -
6 March 2008, by Siddharth Varadarajan
The U.N. is escalating the Iran nuclear crisis
If the Security Council were truly concerned about Iran’s nuclear programme, it would have lifted sanctions in the light of the IAEA’s latest report and thereby secured Iranian adherence to the (...) -
6 March 2008, by FORREST HYLTON
Cornered President
Sadly, the operation on March 1 in which the Colombian Armed Forces shot and killed Luis Edgar Devia Silva, a.k.a. "Raúl Reyes," spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), (...) -
5 March 2008, by Feroz Mehdi
Poverty of Development
Recently the federal government of Pakistan signed a contract with Nakeel group of Limitless, a UAE based private company for construction of a new Water Front Sugar City off the Karachi (...) -
4 March 2008, by Phyllis Bennis
In the Crosshairs
Washington watched as 2007 came to a violent and inglorious end. U.S. wars raged in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S.-backed Israeli occupation suffocated Palestinians, U.S.-allied governments in (...) -
4 March 2008, by Malalai Joya
Canada should change its policy
After 9/11, unfortunately the United States and its allies like Canada pushed us from the frying pan into the fire, by putting in power the Northern Alliance criminals and warlords. As long as (...) -
3 March 2008, by Ahmad Jaradat
West Bank in Solidarity with Gaza
While most of the world media was focusing on the Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip, the situation in the occupied West Bank was also volatile. A majority of schools across the West Bank (...) -
2 March 2008, by Gaza / Amjad Al Shawa, Director of the Palestinian Network of NGOs (PNGO)
Message to the World
Dear friends all over the world, I’m calling on you in this moment while the Gaza Strip where I’m living is under attack by the Israeli occupation forces. They are showing no mercy; killing (...) -
2 March 2008, by Bryan Atinsky
The Tipping Point in Gaza: Action Not Words Needed to Halt Israel Offensive and Large-scale Disaster
In heavily populated Palestinian areas, such as in the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers move from building to building by knocking holes through the walls of apartment complexes and offices. In the (...) -
1 March 2008, by Gérard Prunier
Roots of the Crisis
The post-election violence in Kenya can be explained by reference to the evolution of its ethno-political mosaic since independence, says Gérard Prunier. -
1 March 2008, by Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Firoze Manji
Kenyans must seize democracy for themselves
It has taken over 1,500 Kenyan lives, hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people, a destroyed economy, and intensified mistrust between ethnicities that will last generations for both (...) -
1 March 2008, by Ali Abunimah
Israeli Minister Threatens "Holocaust" As Public Demand Ceasefire Talks
Israeli officials began damage limitation efforts after the country’s deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with a "holocaust." -
29 February 2008, by MICHAEL LEVITIN
Crisis Only Beginning
As renewed Serb protests this week in Bosnia and elsewhere demonstrate, the storm unleashed by Kosovo’s Feb. 17 declaration of independence is long from abating. Rather, what recent events have (...) -
29 February 2008, by PATRICK COCKBURN
It’s falling apart
Iraq is disintegrating faster than ever. The Turkish army invaded the north of the country last week and is still there. Iraqi Kurdistan is becoming like Gaza where the Israel can send in its (...) -
28 February 2008
Israeli Descruction Continues in Gaza
An Israeli airstrike aimed at the ministry of interior building in Gaza City also destroyed the nearby Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) head office in Gaza and killed a 5-month-old baby (...) -
27 February 2008, by Ahmad Jaradat
Further Land Confiscations
Lands belonging to families from the West Bank Palestinian towns of Adh-Dhahiriya, Dura and Ar-Ramadin in the southern Hebron hills are being confiscated in order that a separation wall can be (...) -
27 February 2008, by Richard Sanders
Canada’s Secret Role in the War
On March 25, 2003, during the “shock and awe” bombardment of Iraq, then US Ambassador Paul Cellucci admitted that “… ironically, Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel... will supply (...) -
26 February 2008, by Feroz Mehdi
A Resounding No to Army and Taliban
Elections in Pakistan held on February 18, 2008 were seen by some political analysts as a referendum on President Parvez Musharraf. In that case the people of Pakistan have clearly passed a (...) -
26 February 2008, by Nahla Chahal
Compromise or new social contract?
Confessionalism in Lebanon is not only a legacy, it is a constructed system, and I would almost venture to say a rational one. What follows is not a historical overview, the likes of which is (...) -
26 February 2008, by JOHN CHERIAN
The loser
The election results are interpreted as a vote against President Musharraf and his “war on terror” on behalf of the U.S. -
26 February 2008, by Mahir Ali
Spring in the air
DURING the 11 years that the Pakistan People’s Party and Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League alternated in power, it is highly unlikely that the idea of a coalition between the rancorous (...) -
26 February 2008, by Farooq SULEHRIA
Hope and Fear
cLiaqat Bagh: the lush green garden in Pakistan’s northern town of Rawalpindi was witnessing a very different scene on February 18 as the night set in. Unlike the bloody Benazir tragedy staged (...) -
25 February 2008, by Herbert DOCENA
Is US Losing War Of Hearts and Minds?
Instead of winning hearts and minds, US soldiers involved in humanitarian mission in Sulu province may be losing more than gaining the support of local Muslims. -
25 February 2008, by Palestinian National Initiative
Palestinian Parliamentarians Form Committee to Investigate Death of Prisoner in Ramallah Jail
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, and four other MPs announced the establishment of a committee to investigate the death of Majd Barghouthi on (...) -
24 February 2008, by Uri Ya’acobi-Keller
Avoiding military service
Israeli soldiers laying on a pile of shirts which say "I Don’t Evade the Draft." Part of the "True Israelis Don’t Evade the Draft" campaign. Several months ago, the Israeli media evoked yet (...) -
21 February 2008
Massive Israeli Attack Could Come Soon
According to the Jewish Press online website on Wednesday, Israeli sources said that a plan, drafted by the Israeli general staff, has been endorsed by the Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak. -
21 February 2008, by Asfandyar Wali Khan
Pakhtuns want peace in their region
Central President of the Awami National Party Asfandyar Wali Khan has said that Pakhtuns by casting their votes in favour of his party candidates had sent a clear message to international (...) -
21 February 2008, by Bahati Ntama Jacques and Beth Tuckey
The US ‘War on Terror’ Exported to Rwanda: A Threat to Peace in DRC
Bahati Ntama Jacques and Beth Tuckey argue Bush’s support for Rwanda through the prism of the Global War on Terror and US access to natural resources will in the long run be disastrous to peace (...) -
20 February 2008, by FAWZIA AFZAL-KHAN
After the elections
Following the crackdown on Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad at the beginning of July 2007, militant violence increased in Pakistan especially in North Waziristan and other parts of FATA (...) -
20 February 2008, by Ahmad Jaradat
Israel’s Policies Building Checkpoints on the Road to Peace
In determining the policies of colonial occupation, empathic considerations towards those under occupation are left out of the analysis. -
20 February 2008, by Gérard Prunier
Between Sudan’s blitzkrieg and Darfur’s war
The wars provoked or cultivated by Sudan’s revolutionary Islamist regime are failing to deliver the regional control Khartoum seeks. Gérard Prunier dissects a vital new phase in a many-sided (...) -
19 February 2008, by URI AVNERY
Liquidators, Incorporated
Every people elevate the profession in which they excel. If a person in the street were asked to name the area of enterprise in which we Israelis excel, his answer would probably be: Hi-Tech. (...) -
19 February 2008
«The situation is miserable»
John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator expressed shock at the living conditions in the Gaza Strip and deplored the current (...) -
18 February 2008, by Diana Johnstone
Independace in a Brave New World
Last Tuesday in Geneva, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tried to convey to journalists his grave concern about the way the United States was handling the Kosovo problem. "We are (...) -
18 February 2008, by Rannie Amiri
Let Beirut Burn, They Say
“If you think we are going to sit with our hands tied, then perhaps we would have to burn everything. If you want chaos, then we welcome chaos. If you want war, then we welcome war. We have no (...) -
17 February 2008, by Darryl Li
Disengagement and the Frontiers of Zionism
In mid-January, when Israel further tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip, it hurriedly assured the world that a “humanitarian crisis” would not be allowed to occur. Case in point: Days after (...) -
16 February 2008, by Horace Cambell
George Bush Visits Africa to promote the US Africa Command
Horace Campbell look at Bush’s visit as an attempt to further militarize the continent and consolidate US holding. -
15 February 2008, by WAJAHAT ALI
The country is Burning
Steve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. He is the author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and The Bin Ladens, from the Soviet Invasion to (...) -
14 February 2008, by Shir Hever
Ending the Israeli Occupation of Palestine Includes Repaying Debts
This bridge in the northern Gaza Strip was destroyed by Israeli war planes in June 2006, and later rebuilt with international funds. The occupied Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (...) -
13 February 2008, by Pierre BEAUDET
“Invasion and Assassination Will Not Bring Security to Anyone”
Ramallah, 11-02-08: “Invasion and assassination will not bring security to anyone,” was the response of PNI Secretary General, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, to reported Israeli plans to launch a (...) -
13 February 2008, by Michael Schwartz
A Tidal Wave Of Misery
A tidal wave of misery is engulfing Iraq—and it isn’t the usual violence that Americans are accustomed to hearing about and tuning out. To be sure, it’s rooted in that violence, but this tsunami (...) -
12 February 2008, by Irfan Husain
Critical moment
Pakistan’s election is being fought in the shadow of assassination, insecurity, and economic hardship. Can it - despite everything - offer a path to progress, asks Irfan Husain. 11 - 02 - 2008 -
12 February 2008, by Alex de WAAL
Civil war, power struggle and imperialist interference
The war for Chad is not over. It is likely to become more bloody and involve a wider humanitarian disaster before any solutions can be grasped. The next week will be critical for the future of (...) -
11 February 2008, by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC
Peace Talks in Dead End
The Al Quds Palestinian Newspaper stated on Saturday that the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks reached a dead-end as Israel continues to reject talks regarding settlements, Jerusalem, refugees (...) -
10 February 2008, by Michael Warschawski
Al-Hakim: In Memoriam
George Habash, founder of the PFLP Last month, after a long disease, Dr. George Habash—al-Hakim as many of us used to call him—passed away. With his death, the Palestinian people lost one of the (...) -
10 February 2008, by Seymour Hersh
Les mystères du bombardement israélien sur la Syrie
Seymour Hersh a enquêté sur le bombardement israélien qui a visé la Syrie en septembre, toujours entouré de nombreuses interrogations. Quelle était la nature de la cible ? Les USA ont-ils été (...) -
9 February 2008, by Graham Usher
Mixed signals after Bhutto
Islamabad – The assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi on December 27 brought home the gravity of Pakistan’s crisis. That she was its latest martyr added a terrible poignancy, and not (...) -
8 February 2008, by Darryl Li for Adalah
From Prison to Zoo
In June 2006, the Israeli Air Force destroyed the only power plant in the Gaza Strip. The metaphor of the Gaza Strip as the world’s largest prison is unfortunately outdated. Israel now treats (...) -
8 February 2008, by PATRICK COCKBURN
When Bagdad will explode again
A teenage boy was arrested recently for the attempted rape of a girl of his own age in a school in west Baghdad. Under interrogation, he admitted that he had chosen this particular girl as his (...) -
8 February 2008, by MURALIDHARAN Sukumar
Musharraf’s Mounting Woes
U.S. benediction could prove a curse for Pakistan’s beleaguered president -
7 February 2008, by Shir Hever, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Let Them Eat Schadenfreude: The Suffering of Gazans Offered Up as a Panacea for Sderot
Qassam rockets which landed in a street in Sderot (archive photo, 2007). The shelling of Sderot continues. Numerous residents are in shock while others have been physically injured. The property (...) -
7 February 2008, by Farooq TARIQ
No Interest for Elections
Thirteen days to go and yet there is no election excitement. There are no street corner meetings or large-scale public rallies. The main leadership of those parties participating in the (...) -
6 February 2008, by Alex de Waal
Making Sense of the Mess
The war for Chad is not over. It is likely to become more bloody and involve a wider humanitarian disaster before any solutions can be grasped. The next week will be critical for the future of (...) -
6 February 2008
Collective punishment in Gaza will not bring security in Israel
Ramallah, 06-02-08: In response to today’s announcement by the Israeli government that it will further reduce the amount of electricity it sells to Gaza from tomorrow, a move sanctioned by (...) -
6 February 2008, by Seumas Milne
the war that cannot be won
The crisis of the Afghan occupation is a reminder of its fraudulent claims, growing cost in blood, and certainty of failure -
5 February 2008, by SAREE MAKDISI
The strangulation of Gaza
The people of Gaza were able to enjoy a few days of freedom last week, after demolition charges brought down the iron wall separating the impoverished Palestinian territory from Egypt, allowing (...) -
5 February 2008, by URI AVNERY
From Stalingrad to Winograd
For some days, the country looked like the Place de la Concorde in 1793. The entire public sat expectantly facing the guillotine, waiting for the tumbril to bring the marquis, for the marquis to (...) -
4 February 2008, by Lubna Masarwa, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Oppressing to be on the Safe Side
One of many security cameras in Jerusalem’s Old City. This one outsitde the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This article is based on a presentation given by Lubna Masarwa, Social Movements (...) -
4 February 2008, by KHALID Syed Abdul
Plundering of Public Assets
Pakistan, under the gospel of market economy is aggressively pursuing the policy of market liberalization and privatization since 1991. -
1 February 2008, by SAUL LANDAU
The Next Disaster
After six plus years, the war in Afghanistan drags on. The media occasionally cites casualties, but if it doesn’t involve NFL veteran Pat Tillman’s killing at the hands of his own comrades, (...) -
31 January 2008, by Michael Warschawski
Ehud Barak on Trial!
Current Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Last week, several social and physical laws were proven. The first law determines that if you increase pressure on a closed area which has no safety (...) -
31 January 2008, by Phyllis Bennis
THE GAZA WALL COMES TUMBLING DOWN?
The breaching of the Israeli-built wall dividing the Gaza Strip from Egypt brought some critical relief for the population of 1.5 million Palestinians whom Israel had kept locked into a kind of (...) -
30 January 2008, by Ilan Pappé
Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
An explosion during an Israeli offensive into the Gaza Strip. Not long ago, I claimed that Israel is employing genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated before using this very charged (...) -
29 January 2008, by Mustafa Barghouti
Israel seeks to mislead global public opinion as Gaza remains under siege
“The one-off relaxation of the blockade of the Gaza Strip this week to allow the delivery of fuel and some other humanitarian supplies cannot meet the needs of the Palestinians in Gaza, and the (...) -
29 January 2008, by EYAD al-SARRAJ and SARA ROY
Why is This Acceptable?
An Israeli convoy of goods and peace activists will go today to Erez, Israel’s border with Gaza, and many Palestinians will be on the other side waiting. They will not see one another, but (...) -
28 January 2008
World Day of Action
The World Social Forum (WSF) movement brings together people and movements all over the world to push forward a global agenda of progressive change for democracy, human rights and social (...) -
27 January 2008
Israelis and Palestinians Demonstrate
On Saturday, 26 January, some 1,500 Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel from all around the country, including several Members of Knesset, gathered outside the Erez border crossing into (...) -
26 January 2008, by Connie Hackbarth, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Israeli Mobilize against Siege of Gaza
On 21 January in West Jerusalem, tens of Israelis demonstrated against the Gaza Siege. Thousands of Israelis from across the country are mobilizing against the current siege of the Gaza Strip by (...) -
26 January 2008, by URI AVNERY
Worst than a Crime
It looked like the fall of the Berlin wall. And not only did it look like it. For a moment, the Rafah crossing was the Brandenburg Gate. -
24 January 2008, by Michel Warshavski
Solidarity with Gaza ! No to Israeli War Crimes !
A majority of Gaza citizens live in poverty and many are without running water. The Israeli government has declared a total war on Gaza, largely cutting electricity and fuel supplies and (...) -
24 January 2008, by Jeff Halper, ICAHD
Power to the People
The people of Palestine have done it again, taking their own fate in their hands after being let down by their own "moderate" political leadership and, indeed, the entire international community (...) -
23 January 2008
Act Now!
The Palestinian Medical Relief Society appeals to all friends and supporters around the world, and to all those who believe in the sanctity of universal human rights and international law, to (...) -
23 January 2008, by Omar Barghouti
European Collusion in Israel’s Slow Genocide
The European Union, Israel’s largest trade partner in the world, is watching by as Israel tightens its barbaric siege around Gaza, collectively punishing 1.5 million Palestinian civilians, (...) -
21 January 2008, by Mustafa Barghouthi
Barghouthi: “We Are One People; We Will Not Abandon Gaza”
MP underlines 219% surge in number of Palestinians killed by Israel since Annapolis -
20 January 2008, by Michel Warschawski
Collaborators
Palestinian Authority Coat of Arms On Saturday, 12 January, Palestinian police forces brutally attacked peaceful demonstrators who protested the visit of US President George W. Bush to Ramallah. (...) -
20 January 2008
Israel is Pushing Gazans Over the Edge, the World Must React
Tonight at 8pm the Gaza Power Generating Company (GPGC) will turn off entirely its power plant for lack of fuel. This will have wide-scale and dramatic consequences for the 1.5 million (...) -
18 January 2008, by Amira Hass
A thorn in the Shin Bet’s side
About a month ago, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti was invited to the Italian Consulate in Jerusalem to receive a citation of honor from the government of Italy. The consulate submitted requests to the (...) -
17 January 2008, by Bryan Atinsky
How Far Off is the Tipping Point in the Gaza Strip?
While the Israeli government reiterates that it is committed to a genuine peace process with the Palestinians, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert cautioned the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense (...) -
17 January 2008, by Farooq TARIQ
Musharaf has to go
Pakistan is on fast rout of collapsing under Musharaf dictatorship. The state is in immense crisis. The infrastructure, industrial and social, is in total chaos. The economic crisis is showing (...) -
16 January 2008, by Sergio Yahni
The Arithmetic of Power Following the Annapolis Conference
Fifteen months after being sworn in, Yisrael Beiteinu Party Chairman and Minister for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman announced on Wednesday, 16 January that he was resigning his office and (...) -
16 January 2008, by Michel Warshavski
Twenty Years Ago—The Intifada
A 1990 Palestinian poster depicting resistance against the Israeli occupation. It’s surprising how little was written to mark 20 years since the beginning of the 1987 Palestinian uprising, (...) -
16 January 2008, by FRANKLIN LAMB
The Bombing at Qarantina
Qarantina was the site of yesterday’s message to the Bush administration where a 33 lb bomb killed three and wounded 21. The explosion destroyed the bomb resistant titanium reinforced US four (...) -
16 January 2008, by NIRUPAMA SUBRAMANIAN
Fear
Terror announces its arrival in Lahore, a city that has remained insulated so far from jehadi shootings and bombings. -
14 January 2008, by Horace CAMPBELL
Drama of the popular struggle for democracy
National elections were held in Kenya on December 27, 2007; the results of the Presidential election were announced three days later. Within minutes of the announcement that Mwai Kibaki had (...) -
14 January 2008, by Tariq Ali
What Next?
With Pervez Musharraf trying to cling to power whatever the cost, a farcical succession within the Pakistan People’s Party, and continued US interference, Pakistan’s dark night is far from over. (...) -
13 January 2008, by Michael Warschawski
Indentured Slaves: Israelis and the Visit of President Bush
Tag it: Israeli soldiers out in force during an anti-Bush demonstration in West Jerusalem in front of the US Consulate On the surface, there is no apparent political reason for the arrival of (...) -
12 January 2008, by Irfan Husain
Post-election scenario
The prospects both of electoral advance and internal schism reveal Benazir Bhutto’s mixed legacy to her party, says Irfan Husain. -
11 January 2008, by Mazin Qumsiyeh
Triumph of Form over Substance
Photo opportunities in occupied Jerusalem will not accomplish any more than they did in Annapolis not even the hope of a changed policy after Bush leaves office. -
10 January 2008, by Phyllis Bennis
Iran Over Palestine, Israel Over All
Bush’s current visit to the Middle East, despite the official central message of supporting an Israeli-Palestinian peace process, has far more to do with Iran. -
10 January 2008
Dozens injured and arrested in anti-Bush demo in Ramallah
Dozens of Palestinians were wounded and at least ten arrested in Ramallah when Palestinian police attempted to disperse a demonstration opposing the visit of the US President George Bush on (...) -
10 January 2008, by Yifat Susskind
Who is killing the women of Basrah?
In Basra, Iraq’s second largest city, 2008 was ushered in with an announcement of the 2007 death toll of women targeted by Islamist militias. City officials reported on December 31 that 133 (...) -
9 January 2008, by Sergio Yahni, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Bush arrives
U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Israel early Wednesday afternoon, for a follow-up visit to the U.S.-hosted international peace summit in Annapolis, Maryland last November. Bush’s (...)