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Signing "Egyptian document" is no guarantee for ending Palestinian rift
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The Fatah organization has been urging Hamas to sign the "Egyptian document," giving a false impression that once that document is signed, Hamas and Fatah will become sweethearts, and internal harmony and concordance will overwhelm inter-Palestinian relations ever after...
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The Palestinian Authority: Redundant but dangerous language
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Each time Israel fails to keep its ‘side of the bargain,’ the Palestinian Authority responds with the same redundant language. The cycle has become so utterly predictable that one wonders why the Palestinian Authority officials even bother protesting Israeli action..
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No help from Washington
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Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officials in the government of Mohammed Abbas often complain they spend more time negotiating with American rather than Israeli governments. This has been particularly true of late..
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Israeli Nazism is the root-cause
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Ever since the criminal piracy against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on 31 May, Israeli and Zionist leaders have been spreading all sorts of obscene lies to justify the colossal crime of knowingly slaughtering innocent peace activists in international waters..
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Bloody Sunday, Bloody Monday
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Six Londonderry men and seven teenagers were shot dead by soldiers of the British Parachute Regiment on Sunday, 30 January 1972. Five of the wounded were shot in the back. The Widgery Tribunal was convened rapidly..
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Other Headlines
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Turkey accepts the challenge; Middle East is changing
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"Even despots, gangsters and pirates have specific sensitiveness, (and) follow some specific morals." This claim was made by Turkish Prime Minister in a recent speech..
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Jerusalem: Words! Words! Words!
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'There isn't one I haven't heard' or so goes one of the lines in a well-known American musical. Yet, this time the world is imbuing the words with new meaning when it comes to US/Israel relations..
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Anti-Semitism: Zionism’s tool to blackmail the world
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David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, was convinced that Zionism could only thrive on anti-Semitism, and that in order to strengthen Zionism, anti-Semitism would have to be encouraged. He wrote that not always and not everywhere should Jews oppose anti-Semitism..
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The lobby vs. America: On Netanyahu’s lies and the spineless politicians
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As I listened to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address an animated crowed of supporters on March 22, I felt physically sick. The man has already displayed time and again a complete lack of moral sense..
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Hopes for peace unrealistic
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Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have described renewed hopes for the resumption of peace talks with Israel as “highly exaggerated and unwarranted.”..
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Criminal complicity of a senile leadership
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The autocratic regime of Egyptian leader Mubarak is more and more overtly complicit in aiding and abetting the inhumane strangulation and criminal blockade of the Gaza Strip. It has used all kinds of phony pretexts to prevent international aid from reaching Gaza..
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Qumsiyeh’s chronicles
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I entered Jerusalem yesterday [20 January] without using the temporary “Israeli permit” that was issued to me (and that expired yesterday). My family had applied for me and many others through our church for the Eastern Christian Holidays..
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Israel’s leaders on the run
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Senior officials in Israel confirmed reports that a British court issued a warrant against opposition leader Mrs. Tzipi Livni for her role in orchestrating Israel’s military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip last December..
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Palestinians on brink of explosion
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“In the absence of all hope, we cry out our cry of hope,” Palestinian Christian leaders, representing churches and church-related organizations, meeting in Bethlehem on 11 December, concluded in their 13-page document..
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Was Israel's Gaza offensive worth it?
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Today offers us an ironic conjuncture of commemorations: the fast of the 10th of the Hebrew month of Tevet and the first anniversary of Operation Cast Lead. On the day of the fast, few Israelis are thinking about Gaza, under Israeli blockade..
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