Palestine Blogs

Mairead Maguire BBC choose instead to try to demonize the passengers on the from the word go MV ‘Mavi Marmara’ by trying to make them out as violent terrorists. They choose to collude with the...

Lauren Booth Before you scream ‘lies!’ or ‘anti semite!’ please, I beg you. Parent to parent. Human to human. in the name of the God of all faiths, take a breathe, suspend your disbelief a while...

By Various Undersigned (29 July 2010) The following open letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose elected mandate expired in July 2009 and who has remained in power under...

Haaretz News Service The officer, who holds the rank of first lieutenant, allegedly stole between four and six computers from activists on the Mavi Marmara, which was trying to break the naval...

Press TV Iran has begun loading its first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr with fuel in an effort to provide the country with nuclear-generated electricity. Nuclear fuel is being...

by Kourosh Ziabari President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put forward insightful and astute questions: "why should Israel possess nuclear weapons in violation of the international law", "why should Israel...

Jeremy R. Hammond These casualties have resulted from Israeli attacks across the Green Line (the 1949 armistice line), with soldiers firing indiscriminately at Gazans who are frequently guilty of...

Dr. Lawrence Davidson Former Israeli Soldier Eden Abargil seems to have decency deficit problems. If nothing else she cannot see that there is in fact violence in her photos. The Palestinian men whom...

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban These efforts to break the will of the Palestinians while assaulting the remains of their dead suggests a moral bankruptcy haunting Israelis today, through which they are trying...

Haaretz.com "In war there are no rules," Abergil allegedly wrote on the wall of her profile page on the social network Facebook. Photographs uploaded by Abergil from Ashdod and labeled "IDF – the...

Tim King If the United States backs an attack on Iran, a large percentage of Americans will have nothing to do with it. Protests and riots will begin and never stop. The US military will splinter and...

Stuart Littlewood Palestinians have been put through that sort of mangle for decades. Death and misery still stalk their daily lives thanks to piss-poor Palestinian leadership and the international...

Franklin Lamb The members of Parliament decided to do essentially nothing to meet Lebanon’s legal, moral, religious, social and political obligations to her unwanted refugees. Parliaments gesture...

Mike Whitney Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is demonized in the western media. He is called an anti-Semite and the "new Hitler". But if those claims are true, then why did the majority of...

Middle East Monitor In a news item reminiscent of the shocking and disturbing photos that came out of Iraq's notorious Abu-Ghraib prison a few years ago, now ex-IDF soldier Eden Aberjil has posted...

Jonathan Cook One document in particular, Plan Dalet, demonstrated the army’s intention to expel the Palestinians from their homeland. Its existence explains the ethnic cleansing of more than 80 per...

Khalid Amayreh So, you hate us because of the 9/11 events. Well, 99% of Muslims condemned in the strongest terms these terrorist acts. And we are sorry for the umpteenth time for the death of dozens...

Dr. Lawrence Davidson U.S. now appears hopelessly devoted to maintaining the economic activities of the military-industrial complex regardless of need, efficiency, or cost. Why so? Because, he tells...

Jeff Halper Nothing prevents Israel from terrorizing the Palestinian population, whether by its own army or the surrogate militia founded by the US and run by the Palestinian Authority to pacify its...

By ESAM AL-AMIN It took four years for the tribunal to admit that much of “the evidence” used against Syria was fabricated by false witnesses, some of them even tied to Israeli intelligence. The...