Nasrallah threatens escalation of fighting against Israel at the Lebanese border
November 3rd, 20230 BEIRUT — The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah group said Friday that his powerful militia is engaged in unprecedented cross-border fighting with Israel and threatened escalation. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s widely anticipated speech was his first since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, sparked by the Palestinian militants’...
White House suggests “pauses” in Israel’s war on Gaza to get people out
November 3rd, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, the White House said it was exploring a series of ceasefires in the Israeli war on Gaza to help people safely exit Gaza and allow humanitarian aid to get in, but reiterated its opposition to a full ceasefire. National security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that such pauses should be temporary...
U.N. experts say ceasefire needed as Palestinians at “grave risk of genocide”
November 3rd, 20230 GENEVA – On Thursday a group of independent United Nations experts called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying time was running out for Palestinians there who are at "grave risk of genocide." Nearly four weeks of Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip in retaliation for deadly attacks by Hamas gunmen in southern Israel on Oct....
U.S. House passes Republicans’ Israel-only aid bill, which faces dead end in Senate
November 3rd, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Republican plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel and cut funding of the Internal Revenue Service, despite Democrats' insistence it has no future in the Senate and the White House's promise of a veto. The measure passed 226 to 196, largely along party...
Following an Israeli airstrike, crowded Gaza hospital struggles to treat wounded children
November 3rd, 20230 BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip — The gray film covering the faces of children rushed to the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza Thursday made it hard to distinguish between the living and the dead. After two Israeli airstrikes flattened an entire block of apartment buildings in the Bureij refugee camp and damaged two U.N....
Time to listen: What is Gaza telling us about Palestinian priorities
November 2nd, 20230 Gaza has changed the political equation in Palestine. Moreover, the repercussions of this devastating war are likely to alter the political equation in the entire Middle East and to re-center Palestine as the world’s most urgent political crisis for years to come. Since the establishment of Israel, facilitated by Britain and...
The Gaza manifesto: Why America’s old Middle East is crumbling
November 1st, 20230 History will not forgive those who have remained silent, exhibited or expressed “balanced” positions — or worse, defended Israel’s ongoing genocide in an already besieged, impoverished and overcrowded Gaza. This is not a cliché declaration, a desperate attempt aimed at jolting the world, especially the Western world, to show...
Israel lies about civilians losses to conceal its colossal failure. Here is the proof
October 27th, 20232 According to a list published in the Israeli newspapers, a total of 14 children and seven elders among the 768 Israeli dead from the October 7 attack. The list of names, ages and profession of those who were killed are published here as well. Since the Hamas onslaught on the Southern area of Israel on October 7, Benjamin...
Betrayed by Biden and other Democrats, Arab and Muslim Americans in Michigan vow: “We will never vote for them again”
October 27th, 20231 The positions of the Biden administration on the current Israeli war on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip since October 7 were not only disappointing, but rather shocking and provocative to the extreme of oppression and resentment among Arab and Muslim Americans in Michigan and nationwide. They felt that President Biden and most...
More than 400 Capitol Hill staffers call for cease-fire In Gaza
October 27th, 20230 By Rowaida Abdelaziz/ Huffpost Muslim and Jewish congressional staffers signed a letter Thursday urging Congress to back a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in light of “anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian sentiment on the rise nationwide.” The letter, which HuffPost has learned has been signed by 411...
Israel is losing support as fury grows over its brutality in Gaza
October 27th, 20230 Jordan’s Queen Rania Al Abdullah was offered a chance to express horror at the October 7 Hamas killing and abduction of Israelis. How did she feel, she was asked in a CNN interview, “as an Arab, as a Palestinian, a human being, a mother?” The monarch launched into an impassioned denunciation of Israel’s subsequent bombing...
Ceasefire Now Resolution urges support for an end to violence in Israel and Occupied Palestine
October 22nd, 20230 WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Reps Cori Bush (D-MO), Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), André Carson (D-IN), Summer Lee (D-PA) and Delia C. Ramirez (D-IL), alongside Representatives Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN),...
Livonia couple trapped in Gaza, appeals for help
October 20th, 20230 In the heart of the ongoing war on Gaza, a family from Livonia, Michigan, has found themselves trapped for the last 12 days. Zakaria Alarayshi and his wife, Laila, residents of Livonia for the past 23 years, had embarked on a visit to their homeland just days before the crisis erupted. They now remain stranded, unable to return to...
Biden to seek $14 billion in military aid for Israel as invasion of Gaza nears
October 20th, 20230 On Thursday, President Biden asked Americans to spend billions more dollars to help Israel fight Hamas while Israel's defense minister told his troops to be ready to go into the Gaza Strip to destroy the Palestinian militant group. In a televised White House speech late on Thursday that also addressed Ukraine's effort to repel Russia's...
France uses tear gas on banned pro-Palestinian rally as Macron calls for calm
October 13th, 20230 PARIS – French police used tear gas and water cannons to break up a banned rally in support of the Palestinian people in Paris on Thursday, as President Emmanuel Macron urged the French to remain united and refrain from bringing the Israel-Hamas conflict home. Macron's interior minister had earlier banned pro-Palestinian protests,......
Iran says crimes against Palestinians to receive response from axis
October 13th, 20230 Under a barrage of more than 3,000 rockets, hundreds of Hamas gunmen stormed into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Oct. 7, on motorbikes, paragliders and four-wheel drives, unleashing unprecedented attacks on nearby towns and villages of Jewish settlers. Hundreds of trained Palestinian militants appeared...
Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon
October 13th, 20230 On Thursday, Human Rights Watch accused Israel of using white phosphorus munitions in its military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, saying the use of such weapons puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injury. Asked for comment on the allegations, Israel's military said it was "currently not aware of the use of weapons......
Israel tells all Palestinian civilians to leave Gaza City within 24 hours
October 13th, 20230 On Friday, Israel's occupation forces called for all civilians of Gaza City, more than 1 million people, to relocate south within 24 hours, as it amassed tanks near the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected ground invasion. "Now is a time for war," Israeli Minister of War Yoav Gallant said on Thursday as Israeli warplanes continued pounding...
Israel, White House condemn Trump for remarks about Hamas attack, “smart” Hezbollah
October 13th, 20230 On Thursday Israel and the White House condemned remarks by Donald Trump in which he praised the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over an attack by Palestinian Hamas militants that killed more than 1,300 people in Israel. Trump, a former Republican president who is the front...
At least 100 killed in drone attack on Syrian military academy
October 12th, 20230 At least 100 people were killed on Thursday in an attack on a military academy in Syria, a war monitor and an official said, with weaponized drones bombing the site minutes after Syria's defense minister left a graduation ceremony there. It was one of the bloodiest attacks ever against a Syrian army installation, and unprecedented in...
A day to remember: How the “Al-Quds Flood” altered the relationship between Palestine and Israel forever
October 11th, 20231 Regardless of the precise strategy of the Palestinian group Hamas, or any other Palestinian movement for that matter, the daring Palestinian military campaign, deep inside Israel, on Saturday, October 7, was only possible because Palestinians are simply fed up. 17 years ago, Israel imposed a hermetic siege on the Gaza Strip. The......
The Gaza war is lost: But will Netanyahu concede?
October 11th, 20232 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had often boasted about the readiness of his army to deal with, and to eliminate all threats to Israel's “security.” The Israeli military, too, has contributed to the Israeli hasbara that Tel Aviv would be able to face several threats at all fronts, from Gaza, to the West Bank, to Lebanon...
U.N. warns an Israeli total blockade on the Gaza Strip is equivalent to a war crime
October 10th, 20230 The human rights chief of the United Nations warned that a total blockade on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli government would violate international law and amount to a war crime. In a statement on Tuesday, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said that a total blockade would “seriously” risk an already dire......
“Greatest nation” debates aren’t helpful
September 27th, 20230 Is the United States the greatest nation in the world? It’s a natural question to ask, given our penchant for displays of patriotism and our debates about American exceptionalism. But I don’t much like the question. Talking about how American greatness isn’t a very helpful exercise. It doesn’t do anything to make our country...
Peace talks with Yemen demonstrates Saudi intentions to step away from the U.S.
September 19th, 20230 The Biden administration is seeking trilateral meetings with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as soon as this week to discuss any differences between the Gulf countries that could “upend” the peace talks currently happening between the Saudis and Yemen. According to U.S. officials speaking with the Financial Times, Tim......
