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British police failed to arrest Israeli war criminal

On 10 January 2002 Israeli bulldozers flattened 59 houses in the Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza Strip. Residents fled their homes in heavy rain, most losing all their possessions in the process...

Living with the certainty of war

For a while now, we’ve been talking about it. For a while now, I’ve been talking about it. Yes, there will be another war. I have said so during radio interviews, during dinner conversations, during phone calls with my family in the US...

Meet the Lebanese Press: A cold civil war

If civil wars are born equal, they don’t all progress or die the same. Lebanon is no stranger to civil wars, which usually erupt from a single or a series of violent clashes that snowball into all-out confrontation...

Boycott group to UNESCO: Protect heritage of all cultures

The following is an open letter sent to Director-General of UNESCO Koichiro Matsuura on 14 February 2008..

Living with the certainty of war

For a while now, we’ve been talking about it. For a while now, I’ve been talking about it. Yes, there will be another war. I have said so during radio interviews, during dinner conversations, during phone calls with my family in the US. Yes, there will be another war of Israeli aggression on Lebanon. It is just a question of time, this summer or next summer, this year or next year, but, yes, there will be another war...

British commentary pages ignore Gaza’s plight

Arab Media Watch expresses concern at the lack of critical commentary in the British press on Israel’s recent decision to intensify its siege of the Gaza Strip by withholding vital fuel supplies and increasing military attacks...

"Shocking" rate of malnutrition in donor-dependent Gaza

"We receive 20-25 new referrals every day, and we see approximately 350 children a week here at the centre. Last year we treated more than 8,400 children here in Gaza city, plus another 8,000 children at our centre in Khan Younis...

No Valentine break for Gaza flower producers

After generations of occupation, Valentine’s Day has meant little in the Gaza Strip. But the flowers that lovers presented in Europe has...

UNRWA Gaza appeal making very slow progress

A UN special appeal for the Gaza Strip has managed to bring in only a small percentage of the US$9.8 million needed for urgent food aid and cash assistance for the enclave’s most vulnerable refugees...

"Where are you from?"

I live in an apartment building adjoining the Arab American University - Jenin (AAUJ) on a hill surrounded by farmland and quiet villages. As I write, the wind outside my leaky windows has been howling for hours, adding to the desolation of the campus...

Israeli foreign ministry’s token Arab

Ishmael Khaldi has been all the rage amongst Israel advocacy groups in the United States, especially in the liberal San Francisco Bay Area. An Arab Bedouin who embraces his Israeli citizenship and has worked for the Israeli police as well as Israel’s occupying army, he was a dream come true for the Israeli consulate, which decided to hire him as Deputy Consul to San Francisco in December 2006...

Israel’s "next logical step"

"The next logical step" for the Israeli government "will have to be a decision whether to target the top political leadership" of Hamas...

Book review: "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations"

Much debate on conflict in the Middle East is beset by contradictions and unanswered questions. These include: If the war in Iraq was motivated by oil, then why was it opposed by so many within the oil industry itself?..

Gaza fishermen: "We are ready to work"

"I’ve been a fisherman for thirty six years, ever since I was 15 years old. My original village, al-Jura, was famous for its fishermen. When my father migrated to Gaza in 1948, he came here by boat."..

Why I will not participate in the Turin Book Fair

When I agreed to participate in the Turin Book Fair, which I have done before, I had no idea that the "guest of honor" was Israel and its sixtieth birthday. ..

Fueling disaster

At the bus stop at Palestine Square, in the bustling heart of Gaza City, 25-year-old Said Ramadan cried to passersby, "Fuel, fuel, fuel! Come and buy!"..

Toddlers not immune from discrimination in Israel

After Fathi’s son had been attending a child daycare center for several days, the daycare worker telephoned him and said: "We have a problem with your son ... and after the other parents found out, some of them have removed their children from the center...

Starving Gaza

The people of Gaza were able to enjoy a few days of freedom two weeks ago, after demolition charges brought down the iron wall separating the impoverished Palestinian territory from Egypt, allowing hundreds of thousands to burst out of the virtual prison into which Gaza has been transformed over the past few years -- the terminal stage of four decades of Israeli occupation -- and to shop for desperately needed supplies in Egyptian border towns..

The loneliness of the One-Issue Voter

Although I am now officially middle-aged, only once have I felt the excitement of waking up to the joyous news that my candidate won the US presidential elections. ..

Rebel from a bygone era

"His very name scatters fire through ice," wrote Byron of an 18th-century revolutionary leader, and so it has always been with the name of that extraordinary Palestinian George Habash. For those in anti-colonial movements across the world who learned and trained under him, his name embodies that inextinguishable human demand for justice and freedom...