October 18th, 20240“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.”
These were the last words written by my sister in a text message to one of her daughters.
Dr. Soma Baroud was murdered on October 9 when Israeli warplanes bombed a taxi that carried...
October 18th, 20240Yahya Ibrahim Sinwar was born in October 1962 in the Khan Younis refugee camp for Palestinian refugees in the southern Gaza Strip. He joined the "Hamas" movement, founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, before the first Palestinian intifada in 1987.
Sinwar received his education in Khan Younis camp schools, completing his secondary education...
October 4th, 20240
Last week was not an ordinary one in the history of the Middle East. Major events unfolded, starting with the assassination of Hezbollah’s Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah by 85 tons of explosives in an Israeli airstrike. The strike targeted Hezbollah’s stronghold in Haret Hreik, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, on...
September 14th, 20240When asked why his latest map has erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the most detestable answer.
“I didn’t include the Dead Sea. It’s not shown on the map. I didn’t show the Jordan River. It’s not on this map. I didn’t show the Sea of Galilee,” was Netanyahu's...
August 23rd, 20240The Democratic National Committee declined a request from the "uncommitted" delegates for a member of the Arab American community to speak at the party convention in Chicago.
“The answer is no,” Michigan uncommitted delegate Abbas Alawieh told journalists outside the United Center.
“I said, 'No is unacceptable. No is...
August 23rd, 20240Disagreements over Israel's future military presence in Gaza and over Palestinian prisoner releases are obstructing a ceasefire and hostage deal, according to 10 sources familiar with the round of U.S.-mediated talks that concluded last week.
Sources, who include two Hamas officials and three Western diplomats, told Reuters the...
August 23rd, 20240Disappointed Pro-Palestinian activists said Kamala Harris' speech to close the Democratic convention in Chicago failed to demonstrate any break from the status quo, after a week in which the most divisive issue facing the party was mostly ignored.
Under pressure to respond to critics of U.S. support for Israel's war in Gaza, the vice...
August 17th, 20240On Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their last meeting in July to quickly end Israel's war in Gaza, but the former president also criticized ceasefire demands.
"He knows what he's doing, I did encourage him to get this over with," the former...
August 10th, 20240The idea that the war on Gaza is essentially waged and sustained by and for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, for long, dominated political analyses on the subject.
The notion is often kept alive by public opinion inside Israel.
Most polls produced since the start of the Israeli genocide on Gaza suggest that an...
July 26th, 20241Palestinian health authorities say Israel's ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 39,000 people, mostly civilians, and driven most of the enclave's 2.3 million people from their homes.
The war began on Oct. 7 when Hamas militants stormed across the border into Israeli communities. Israel says the militants killed more...
July 26th, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris said she urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire deal soon with Hamas so that dozens of hostages held by the militants in Gaza since Oct. 7 can return home.
Harris said she had a “frank and constructive” conversation with Netanyahu in which...
July 19th, 20241Much has been written about the political earthquakes in Britain and France, the first resulting in the crushing defeat of the Conservative Party and the latter in the overpowering of the far right, by a largely leftist coalition.
But these were not the only important outcomes of the July 4 and July 7 general elections in two of...
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 28th, 20240The word Muqawama in Palestinian lexicon does not need elaboration beyond the immediate meaning it generates among ordinary Palestinians. Only recently, and specifically after the Oslo peace accords and the sudden infusion of Western-funded NGOs, did such terms as “peaceful resistance” and “non-violent resistance” begin to emerge...
June 15th, 20240UNICEF has found that nine out of 10 children in Gaza do not have enough food necessary for growth and development.
"In the Gaza Strip, months of hostilities and restrictions on humanitarian aid have collapsed the food and health systems, resulting in catastrophic consequences for children and their families," UNICEF said in a...
May 31st, 20240A New York City hospital fired a Palestinian American Muslim nurse after she called Israel's war in Gaza a "genocide" during an acceptance speech for an award for her work with bereaved mothers who lost their children during pregnancy and childbirth.
A spokesperson for the hospital, NYU Langone Health, said on Thursday that labor and...
May 17th, 20240THE HAGUE – On Thursday, South Africa urged the U.N.'s top court to order a halt to Israel's offensive on Rafah, saying attacks on Gaza city "must be stopped" to ensure the survival of the Palestinian people.
South Africa's ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusimuzi Madonsela, asked judges to order Israel to "immediately, totally and...
May 10th, 20240By Morhaf Al Achkar, MD, PhD*
In recent weeks, university campuses across the United States have transformed into epicenters of political activism. Sparked by the ongoing conflict in Gaza, students have established pro-Palestine encampments, seeking to express solidarity and raise awareness. Rather than engaging with these peaceful...
April 26th, 20240THE HAGUE – The discovery of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals, said by Palestinian authorities to contain hundreds of bodies, have triggered calls by the U.N. rights chief and others for an international investigation.
While not defined under international law, a mass grave is a burial site containing multiple bodies, the existence...
April 12th, 20240Israel described its clearly deliberate killing of seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza on 1 April as a “grave mistake”, a “tragic event” of a kind that “happens in war.” Obviously, Israel was lying. In fact, this entire so-called war in Gaza — which is in reality a genocide — has been based on a series of lies, some of...
April 7th, 20240The United States was looking into a media report that the Israeli military has been using artificial intelligence to help identify bombing targets in Gaza, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told CNN on Thursday.
Kirby, in the CNN interview, said the U.S. had not verified the content of the media report published...
April 6th, 20240WASHINGTON D.C. — The White House canceled an iftar dinner after Muslim American leaders declined the invite due to President Biden's support for Israeli war on Gaza.
Due to the invitees' rejection, the White House held a smaller dinner with a meeting on administration policy.
Wa'el Alzayat, leader of a Muslim Advocacy...
March 30th, 20240Ireland plans to file an argument in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, according to the Irish government, making the move as the country has strongly condemned Israel’s actions against civilians in Gaza.
South Africa has brought a case against Israel in the I.C.J., the United...
March 22nd, 20240Israel's spy chief was due to travel to Qatar on Friday for ceasefire negotiations while the U.S. planned to put a resolution calling for an immediate truce in Gaza to a vote of the U.N. Security Council, intensifying pressure on its ally.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday in Cairo he believed talks mediated by the...
March 8th, 20240President Biden took on Donald Trump in a fiery speech to Congress on Thursday, accusing his election rival of threatening U.S. democracy and kowtowing to Russia, as he laid out his case for four more years in the White House.
In his last State of the Union address before the election, Biden, a Democrat, charged Trump, his Republican...
February 13th, 20240It seemed strange, if not out of context, when Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News that “Muslims are not afraid of us anymore.”
Feiglin’s comments were made on October 25, less than three weeks following the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Flood operation and the genocidal Israeli war which...
January 12th, 20240Letter to the editor:
The government of South Africa — whose people know a thing or two about the evils of apartheid — is charging Israel with the crime of genocide before the International Court of Justice. Israeli spokespersons and apologists may scream and howl in protest, but, as Pretoria’s legal brief documents, the...
January 5th, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. has not observed acts in Gaza that constitute genocide, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday, after South Africa launched genocide proceedings at the International Court of Justice over Israel's military operation in the Palestinian enclave.
"Those are allegations that should not be...