May 23rd, 20250There was a time when Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to have all the cards. The Palestinian Authority was largely passive, the occupied West Bank was relatively calm, Israel's diplomatic reach was expanding, and the United States seemed ready to bend international law to accommodate Israel's desire for complete control over Palestine.
The...
May 15th, 20250On Thursday, Israeli military strikes killed at least 60 people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said, as the United States and Arab mediators pushed for a ceasefire deal and President Trump visited the Middle East.
Most of the victims, including women and children, were killed in Khan Younis in southern Gaza in airstrikes that...
February 21st, 20250Palestinians and Israelis agree that the Gaza resistance was the main reason behind Israel’s forced decision to accept a ceasefire and begin its gradual withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
The oddity is that Palestinians — dying, resisting, but remaining steadfast in Gaza — usually stand at the polar opposite of everything the Israeli...
January 4th, 20250Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza have devastated the Palestinian enclave's health system and raised serious concerns about Israel's compliance with international law, the U.N. Human Rights Office said in a report on Tuesday.
The 23-page report, documenting various attacks between Oct. 12, 2023, and June 30, 2024, concluded that...
January 2nd, 20251The story of the Israeli war on Gaza can be epitomized in the story of the Israeli war on Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the northern part of the Strip.
When Israel launched its ground operations in Gaza, Beit Lahia was already largely destroyed due to many days of relentless Israeli bombardment which killed...
December 30th, 20240More than 45,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, health officials in the embattled territory said Monday, as often-stalled ceasefire negotiations appeared to be gaining ground.
Qatar, Egypt and the United States have renewed efforts to broker a ceasefire deal in recent days, and Israeli...
December 30th, 20241The State Department has carved out exceptions for close ally Israel that block a U.S. law restricting foreign military support over human rights abuses, a lawsuit from a group of Palestinians in Gaza and American relatives asserted Tuesday.
Former State Department officials and crafters of the 1997 Leahy law were among those advising...
November 15th, 20243Arab and Muslim American voters did not remove Democrats from office, nor did they cost Kamala Harris the Oval Office. They merely sent a strong message that Palestine matters, not only to Arabs and Muslims but to many Americans as well.
The ones who cost the Democrats the elections are the Democrats themselves. Their humiliating...
October 31st, 20240Under the slogan “Gaza is ours, forever”, a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near the Gaza border region, on October 20-21.
The group represented the who’s who in the Israeli right, far right and ultranationalists. They included Israeli Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir,...
July 13th, 20240Palestinians returned to breathtaking scenes of destruction in the Gaza City district of Shijaiyah after Israeli troops withdrew, ending a two-week offensive there. Civil defense workers said Thursday that so far, they had found the bodies of 60 people in the rubble.
Families who fled the assault ventured back into Shijaiyah to...
June 7th, 20240On Thursday, the NAACP urged President Biden to "indefinitely" halt all weapons deliveries to Israel and pressure the U.S. ally to end its war in the Gaza Strip, sending a reminder that his support for Israel could hurt him among Black voters in November's election.
The NAACP's call was a rare instance of the influential civil rights...
May 8th, 20240By Jamal I. Bittar
Last Friday, Israel launched an assault on Iran in response to an Iranian incursion onto Israeli soil the weekend prior, involving over 300 missiles and drones. Among the various options available to the Israeli government – ranging from assaults on numerous nuclear facilities, military bases and key national...
March 15th, 20240“America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time” — Jimmy Carter, July 16, 2013
“The government in Washington represents powerful interest groups, not American citizens.” — former Reagan assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, February 6, 2016
The statements above, remember, were made BEFORE the...
March 8th, 20240Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom.
In the past, some, whether ignorantly or not, claimed that peace in Palestine can only be achieved through “unconditional negotiations.”
This mantra was also championed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when he cared enough to pay lip...
March 1st, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Sunday, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force died after he set himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while declaring that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide.”
As he approached the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell of San...
February 28th, 20240The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is as old as civilization itself.
It has existed for thousands of years. The Canaanites referred to it as Rafia, and Rafia has been almost always there, guarding the southern frontiers of Palestine, ancient and modern.
As the gateway between two continents and two worlds,...
February 17th, 20240On February 8, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Washington on an official visit, aimed at working jointly with the United States to make “sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself.”
If such a statement was made soon after the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation of October 7, one may cognize its logic, based on the well-known,...
November 20th, 20230WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal government workers from the State Department to NASA are circulating open letters demanding that President Biden pursue a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza. Congressional staffers are picking up microphones in front of the Capitol, speaking out to condemn the silence of lawmakers about the toll on...
November 17th, 20230DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip – The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The smell is sickening. Every day, hundreds of people claw through tons of rubble with shovels and iron bars and their bare hands.
They are looking for the bodies of their children. Their parents. Their neighbors. All of them killed in Israeli missile...
