By Norman Finkelstein
Electronic Intifada — To preserve my sense of purpose, and keep the Palestine struggle from
becoming a lifeless abstraction, I need periodically to recharge my moral
batteries by reconnecting with the actual people living under occupation and
by witnessing firsthand the unfolding tragedy. From each trip I invariably
carry away a handful of stark images that I [...]

By Khalid Amayreh
Muhannad Salahat, 32, is another Palestinian journalist victimized by the Palestinian Authority Mukhabarat or General Intelligence. Earlier this month, Salahat, who lives in Amman, Jordan, but has a home in the northern West Bank town of Nablus, had to spend 14 nightmarish days in the custody of the Palestinian [...]

Hizb ut Tahrir Palestine – Commenting on the position of the Arab League’s decision to occupation, expulsion and displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians during the CPE infiltrators, denounced Hizb ut-Tahrir on the lips of a member of its information office in Palestine, Al Baher Saleh, the Arab League [...]

Gaza (Arrahmah.com) – Al-Quds Brigades, military wing of Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza said Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip arrested several Al-Quds Brigades fighters when it was preparing to attack Israeli Zionist soldiers.
Al-Quds Brigades fighters who continued that the arrested are members of the Prophet Unit Masoud and [...]

By Khalid Amayreh
Ed Koch is a delusional Zionist supremacist who is desperately struggling to maintain the relevance of Zionist mythology, especially in Europe and North America.
And like all Zionists, the former New York mayor, seems to have little regard if any for truth and honesty.
This is why he constantly reproduces old lies and discredited canards [...]

Israeli forces have uprooted thousands of trees in their raids on Palestinian territories to inflict still another blow at the nation’s crashing economy.
Palestinian sources accuse the Israeli regime of destroying some 400,000 trees during their incursions into territories under the Palestinian Authority’s rule in the last two years.
They describe the [...]

Palestinians inspect the remains of the destroyed Dalloul dairy plant in southern Gaza City. (Rami Almeghari)
It was not a chemical plant, nor a nuclear facility, nor a manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction. But almost all the rubble of the entirely destroyed factory was covered in white, with white chunks [...]

GAZA, (PIC)– MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege, stated Sunday that about 60 percent of Gaza children suffer from malnutrition and anemia and 35 percent of the blockade victims are children.
In a speech at the opening ceremony of [...]

Israeli fighter jets attacked the Gaza Strip and east central regions following the threat of Zionist Israel blockaded Gaza Strip.
The attack on Sunday (5 / 4) and then target the al-Maghazi located near the town of Gaza and al-Qarara in the town of Khan Younis.
Local residents reported increased Israeli military presence [...]

MECA
January 23, 2009
Dear Lutuf,
I entered the Gaza Strip on Wednesday night with my friend and fellow
activist Sharon Wallace after waiting ten hours at the Egypt/Gaza. The
destruction and trauma is even greater than I expected.
In just two short days I met with families who were given minutes to
evacuate their homes and are now [...]

By Juan Cole, The President of the Global Americana Institute
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the American Israel Public Affairs Council on Monday that “Jerusalem is not a settlement.” He continued that the historical connection between the Jewish people and the land of Israel cannot be denied. He added that neither could the historical connection [...]

It’s Dr Norman Finkelstein’s speech at the University of Waterloo. Dr Finkelstein’s mother and father and his family from both side suffered in concentration camps, and some of them were exterminated. That experience, instead of making him play the victim’s role for the rest of his life, it made him speak [...]

Posted: Mar. 22, 2010 04:12 AM PDT
GAZA CITY-Israeli fighter aircraft attacked the southern Gaza Strip overnight after Palestinian fighters firing rockets, and Palestinian witnesses said Israeli soldiers on Monday. The aircraft was attacked in the tunnel on the Rafah border with Egypt, but no one injured, witnesses said.
Army spokesmen [...]

The Israeli military finally constructed the watchtower in Ush Ghrab in the
middle of our town of Beit Sahour today. An ugly reminder to us of the
apartheid military power and an eye-sore too. News also indicates that the
army decided to declare areas of Bilin and Nilin as closed military zones on
Friday so that they [...]

Britain’s policy on Palestine is hypocritical, duplicitous and mendacious
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem
Last week, a few Palestinian journalists and I had the opportunity to meet with Martin Day, a spokesman of the British government. The meeting, which was hosted by the Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN), took place in Ramallah. In his introductory remarks, [...]