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Kidnapped PA deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Naseruddin al-Shaer, refused to attend the Ofer military court Thursday because he told his lawyer he does not recognise the legality of the Zionist court.

He further stressed that this whole so called legal process is in fact political and aims to disrupt the Palestinian political system and demolish the Palestinian Authority.

The court d..

At least 12 Palestinian citizens and one foreign supporter were wounded with IOF troops’ bullets during a peaceful anti-wall rally in the West Bank village of Bil’in, west of Ramallah city Friday.

Hundreds of Palestinian citizens backed by scores of foreign sympathizers held their weekly anti-wall rally in the town just after the Friday congregation raising Palestinian flags and chantin..

PA government satisfied with El Salvador’s decision to move embassy from occupied Jerusalem

The PA government on Saturday expressed satisfaction over El Salvador’s decision on Friday to move its embassy from occupied Jerusalem to Tel Aviv to be the last country to do so.

A PA foreign ministry spokesman said, "We view this decision, which we waited for long, with great sa..

A prominent Jewish rabbi has opined that Israel was nothing but a myth that deceived many people in this world into supporting it, and that in fact it should not have come to being in the first place.

In an interview with the American Fox News TV channel aired on August 22, 2006, Jewish rabbi Yisroel Weiss of the Jews United against Zionism used the Torah (a book explaining the Jewish H..

Former Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti has affirmed that the Middle East will not enjoy lasting peace unless the Palestinian question is justly resolved.

Andreotti’s remarks came as arguments on the advantage of sending Italian troops to lead the UNIFIL force in Lebanon mounted amongst Italian political and media mediums.

"The true problem, which has been dragging on for 50 yea..

The defense panel of kidnapped PLC speaker Dr. Aziz Duwaik has announced that the Kfar Yona prison authority had refused to allow a doctor into Duwaik’s detention cell to check his worsening health condition.

Lawyer Ahmed Safiya, a member of Duwaik’s defense team, told PIC that the "rightist" administration of the Kfar Yona prison, located near to the Netanya settlement, renewed its ref..

UNRWA warned on Thursday that the Agency’s Gaza operation is grinding to a halt because of the lack of access in and out of Gaza. The principal goods terminal, Karni, remains closed for the seventh consecutive day. As a result, shortages of food, fuel and constructions supplies are jeopardizing every element of UNRWA’s Gaza operation at the moment. John Ging, UNRWA’s Director of Operations in G..

MB Parliamentary Bloc members Assayed Askar and Ali Laban tabled two questions to both ministers of Interior and Health, as well as PA Speaker Dr. Ahmed Fatehi Sorour, questioning the wisdom of detaining Ustaz Lasheen Abu Shanab, who is also an MB Executive Bureau member and a former MP, at a time when he is over eighty years of age and his health is deteriorating due to his suffering from Hemi..

Many people regard what is perpetrated against  Lebanese and Palestinians in by Israel, as well as what is ongoing in Iraq from destruction by the hands of the Americans as grievous accidental event caused by megalomania and pride. However, the opposite is true; the motive behind all the unjustified criminal acts perpetrated by both Israelis and Americans lies in the essence of the politic..

The Israeli opposing leader and the head of Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to give an aura of seriousness to his warnings that he repeats daily on Israeli TV channels. His warnings are oriented to the state of occupation and to the Western governments against the dynamics of the real conflict between the Israeli part and the part of Palestinians, Lebanese and Arabs as a whole entity. ..

 A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein. Benjamin Ferencz, who secured convictions for 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating the death squads that killed more than 1 million people, told OneWorld both Bush and Saddam should be tried for starting "aggressive" wars--Saddam for his 1990 att..

The MB Parliamentary Bloc, headed by Dr. Saad el Katatni, released a statement on Saturday August 26, 2006, regarding yesterday’s arrests which extended to MB leaders topped by the group Secretary General Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat and Executive Bureau member Mr. Lashin Abu Shanab.

The Bloc in its statement strongly criticized the government for leaving the corrupts and thieves tamper with..

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, Assistant Secretary General of Islamic Group in Lebanon (Muslim Brotherhood) Ibrahim el Masry dismissed as groundless rumors that Hizbullah rejected to offer reparations for war- hit Sunni nationals until they became Shiites and until they accepted building Shiites holy shrines in the place of their destroyed mosques. Al Masry depicted these rumors as lie..

The anti- terrorism bill which was approved by majority of the Jordanian Parliament on Sunday August 27, 2006, raised controversy among civil society organizations. In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, Secretary General of the Islamic Action Front Zaki Bin Arsheed said that the recently enacted anti- terrorism law paves the way for further extension of state control, thus sowing the seeds of..

Almost daily arrests of Muslim Brothers in Egypt reflect the regime’s growing irritation with the inflammatory rhetoric of the opposition Islamist movement’s leader, analysts say.

"Mohammed Mehdi Akef upped the ante recently," said Kamal Habib, a political analyst and former member of the Jihad Group, which was behind a wave of deadly violence in the 1990s.

The powerful Muslim B..

I grew up Jewish in Beirut. Although I left nearly 40 years ago, my memories of Lebanon - vibrant and multicultural - have stayed with me. And so, my wife and I had started talking about taking a trip there.
I would show her the neighborhood where I grew up, the beaches where I swam in the warm Mediterranean waters and the small mountain hotel we loved to stay at in the summer. I would also..

 Simon Assaf and photographer Guy Smallman were among the first to reach the border town of Aita al-Shaab after the "Israelis" withdrew. They spoke to fighters and locals about their month long battle to defend the town.
By Simon Assaf
The road to Aita al-Shaab is littered with victims of the brutal power of "Israeli" military might. For mile after mile, houses are in ruins and the s..

The PA interior minister, Sa’eed Siyam, on Sunday told a press conference that he ordered an immediate investigation into the kidnap incident of two Fox news journalists in the Gaza Strip, asserting that such a phenomenon was alien to the Palestinian society.

He said in the conference, after release of the journalists who attended it, that his ministry was concerned with non-repetition ..