By Ali Abunimah on November 20, 2015
Israeli occupation forces wrought death, injury and destruction this week as they carried out revenge demolitions of Palestinian homes and fired on protesters. (more…)
Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians in Hebron have been especially traumatic for children, experts say.
By Matthew Vickery on November 10, 2015
Hebron, occupied West Bank – At the start of the school day, students at the Tariq bin Ziyad school in Hebron mill around outside the white-brick building, talking to friends and playing football. (more…)
November 9, 2015
The Abu Jamal family lives in an apartment complex near the bottom of the valley in Jabal al-Mukabir, a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem.
On the building’s top floor, a thin trail of ash leads to what was once Ghassan Abu Jamal’s apartment. (more…)
By Dan Glazebrook on November 7, 2015
A sketch by the late lamented US comedian Bill Hicks involved a US general at a press conference. “Iraq has incredible weapons. Incredible,’ the general said. ‘How do you know that?’ he was asked. “Oh, well, uh – we looked at the receipt.” (more…)
Michael Deas on October 30, 2015
Israeli arms companies promote their products as “combat proven.” That choice of words suggests Israel’s ability to test weapons on Palestinians has become a selling point. Such a ploy was in evidence following Israel’s 51-day attack on Gaza last year. Once the attack had been completed, Israel’s arms industry rushed to try and impress prospective clients by telling them that new drone technology had been showcased during it. (more…)
November 1, 2015
The vote is the second in five months, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party lost in June the governing majority it has enjoyed since first coming to power in 2002. With nearly 93 percent of the votes counted in Turkey’s snap parliamentary elections, the pro-Kurdish HDP had achieved 10.32 percent of the popular vote, enough to remain in parliament. (more…)
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky on October 28, 2015
On October 27, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced that the Pentagon is contemplating “direct action on the ground” in both Iraq and Syria, “in an effort to combat the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group.” (Sputnik, October 27, 2015). (more…)
By Ramzy Baroud on October 14, 2015
When my book ‘Searching Jenin’ was published soon after the Israeli massacre in the Jenin refugee camp in 2002, I was quizzed repeatedly by the media and many readers for conferring the word ‘massacre’ on what Israel has depicted as a legitimate battle against camp-based ‘terrorists’. (more…)