As Americans commemorated their annual celebration of independence from colonial occupation, rejoicing in their democratic institutions, we Palestinians were yet again besieged by our occupiers, who destroy our roads and buildings, our power stations and water plants, and who attack our very means of civil administration. Our homes and government offices are shelled, our parliamentarians taken ..

I walked outside my residence in Cairo Sunday morning to the sight of hundreds of soldiers and riot police.

Sent to the city’s center, this army was ordered to preserve calm as scores of Egyptian journalists marched and protested in front of the country’s parliament building. These writers and broadcasters were responding to proposed constitutional amendments that would ..

is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and editor of the Middle East Quarterly

’It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world," President Bush declared at his seco..

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, Deputy Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon

Israel has gotten a green light for its military response to the abduction of several of its soldiers from more than just the United States. Arab governments too have been notably silent as the crisis in the Middle East grows.

Far more surprising than U.S. statements of support for Israel’s assault on Gaza and Lebanon are similar proclamations from Arab gover..

Dozens of innocent people killed in ‘disproportionate’ attacks

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
 CAIR today called on American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact their elected representatives and urge that they condemn Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon that have left doz..

CAIR ASKS BUSH TO DEMAND THAT ISRAEL ALLOW EVACUATION OF AMERICANS IN LEBANON
Muslim advocacy group says Americans in Israeli army may violate Neutrality Act

 The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on President Bush to demand that Israel stop bombing civilian areas in Lebanon at least long enough to safely..

Israeli internal security minister Avi Dichter has affirmed that PA premier Ismail Haneyya and Hizbullah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah are assassination targets.

"Anyone leading terrorism against Israel knows very well that he will be a target for the Israeli assassination squad. Haneyya and Nasrallah and others put themselves on the list; yet, we will be the one..

Ikhwanoweb has obtained a copy of a statement released by the Arab National Conference, in which the conferees criticized  the Arab League (AL), the UN, the Arab regimes and the international community for their silence over the atrocities committed by Israel against the Lebanese people. The statement laid stress on the backing of the Lebanese people and the resistance and hailed as heroic..

While the Israeli Occupation Forces are escalating their aggressions on the Palestinian and Lebanese people, demonstrations extended to include almost all main Egyptian cities in protest of the Israeli attacks which targeted the infrastructure in both countries, as well as women and children.

Ikhwanweb covered demonstrations in Cairo and Dakahlia cities, where Egyptians turne..

If you’ve never seen chickens come home to roost in real time, turn on your television. Watch the expanding military attacks by Israel, Hamas and Hizbullah, and listen to the background music from the United States, Iran and Syria. The widening war is primarily the result of four decades of failed hard-line policies by the United States and Israel, combined with moribund Arab diplomacy and lead..

Ikhwanweb asked the opinions of two prominent political observers whether the Lebanese Resistance will withstand Israeli and international pressures. Dr. Rifaat Sayed Ahmed, Director of Java Center for Political Studies, who is also an expert on the Lebanese affairs, thinks that Hizbullah will be able to withstand Israeli attacks which failed to reach the military ..

The Middle East is boiling over yet again. Israel is resorting to the one strategy it has perfected since the day it was created, murdering civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure.

Karim el-Sha3er (photo on the right) has been subject to a knife assault in prison, an activist source said. Sha3er and Sharqawi are the only two rema..

I have just received news the State Security Prosecutor has ordered Sharqawi’s and Sha3er’s release!!!

President Bush stands by while the democratic movement he helped to inspire is crushed.
WITH THE TACIT consent of the Bush administration, authoritarian Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is continuing his campaign against the democratic movement that sprouted in his country last year. His latest target is the fledgling independent press, which in recent months has dared to publish st..

The people of the Middle East are suffering again as militarists on all sides, and cheerleading journalists, send forth missiles, bombs and endless words of self-justification for yet another pointless round of violence between Israel and her neighbors.  For those of us who care deeply about human suffering, this most recent episode in irrationality evokes tears of sadness, incredulity at ..