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Arab League’s Secretary General to visit Gaza Strip Sunday

Arab League's Secretary General Amr Mousa is scheduled to visit the Gaza Strip on Sunday, in what the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Hamas describes as a sign of increasing pressure to

After the Israeli flotilla incident, Turkey is the new Palestinian champion

There is no doubt that it is President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, President Nasser’s successor, to whom Abdel Bari Atwan principally refers; and there is no doubt, too, that the

Israel: strategic ally or liability for the USA?

Stephen Sniegoski debunks the arguments that Israel is a strategic US asset, advanced by Israel lobbyists such as billionaire chief editor of US News & World Report Mort Zuckerman, and

Angered activists sit-in at Rafah crossing in protest

An overnight sit in was staged by over 350 Egyptian activists on the Rafah border crossing in an attempt to break the siege on the Gazans

Israeli MP who joined flotilla faces witch-hunt

Jonathan Cook reports that an Israeli Arab MP, Haneen Zoubi, who has testified that she had seen passengers on board the Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara shot in the

Government rejects recommendation to withdraw from Arab Initiative

During a parliamentary session held yesterday, 32 MB and independent MPs called on the government to withdraw from the Arab Peace Initiative between Palestine and Israel .

Israel condemned over Gaza raid at CICA summit

Leaders from the Middle East and Asia condemned Israel’s raid on a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza at a summit on Tuesday, calling on the Jewish state to end

Hamas: Egypt is welcome to continue as mediator

During a meeting with an Egyptian delegation including Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and independent MPs, Hamas leaders and members of the Palestinian Legislative Council asserted that they welcomed Egypt to continue

Where is the American freedom flotilla?

Sama Adnan argues that the failure of American pro-peace organizations to extend their work to lobbying in Congress has allowed the Israel lobby to control the US legislature as well

Egypt forces its MPs to enter Gaza on foot, empty handed

The convoy organized by the Muslim Brotherhood and independent MPs, which was carrying steel and cement, was prevented from entering the Gaza Strip since officials did not consider them as