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Israeli demonstrator badly injured in Bil’in demonstration

BIL’IN, West Bank: Emad Rezqa was hit in the forehead by an aluminum tear gas projectile shot directly at him by Israeli soldiers during the weekly anti-Wall demonstration in Bil’in

The Holocaust isn’t just about Jews

JERUSALEM: Last week I flew to Eilat with two young officers of the IDF Spokesperson Unit. One of them inquired what book I was reading. It was Carole Angier’s magisterial

The Gaza War, Theater and the Big Interview

The military phase of the Gaza war started on December 27, 2008, when Israel launched an attack on the Gaza Strip. It ended on 18 January, 2009, when Israel, and

UNESCO’s clash of civilizations

Immediately after Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni lost his bid to become the first Arab secretary-general of UNESCO, the Egyptian press began attributing his defeat to a "Western-Zionist conspiracy."

PLC warns of the seriousness of the underground metro in OJ

The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) chairmanship on Wednesday warned of the seriousness of the Israeli project to build an underground metro that would run from western to eastern Jerusalem.

Israeli settlers set fire to historical Petra hotel in O. Jerusalem

The Petra hotel caught fire after Israeli settlers celebrating the occasion of the occupation of Palestine fired firecrackers that fell on the roof.

Zionist provocative march in OJ next Sunday

Zionist extremist groups have taken the permission from the Israeli occupation police to organize a march in Silwan suburb in occupied Jerusalem next Sunday to demand the demolition of Palestinian

Tafakji: Israel uses religion to erase Arab and Islamic roots from J’lem

Director of maps and survey department of the orient house Khalil Al-Tafakji said that Israel uses religion to remove the Arab and Islamic roots from the occupied city of Jerusalem

What Anglicans need is another Tutu as top cat

Stuart Littlewood views the silence of the head of the Anglican Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, over Palestinian suffering, especially in Gaza, which he had promised to visit

A Birthday Present

Obama will have to take into consideration the fears of a Naqba-injured and occupation-damaged people; to promise the realization of the Palestinians’ hope for independence within two years, to guarantee