Palestinian journalists hold placards during a demonstration in support with reporters detained by Hamas in Gaza and to ask for their immediate release on January 27, 2013 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI (Photo credit should read ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images)

Threat of violence silences Palestinian journalists

How loud is the voice you hear when you sit down to write a press report? How small is the prison cell you imagine yourself ending up in once you publish your article? The...

The stamp Canada issued

Canada is the only country in the world to do this so far.

Israel Discloses Fatah Network

Israel has disclosed a network loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and assigned to destabilize Jerusalem. The Israel Security Agency reported the capture of a cell aligned with the Fatah movement headed by Abbas....

Examination of the Names of 17 Journalists and Media Personnel Whom the Palestinians Claim...

Overview of the Examination's Findings About a week after the end of Operation Protective Edge the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate issued a list of 17 names, allegedly of journalists who had been killed in the operation....

Hamas Seizes Relief Supplies

Hamas forces have been raiding relief facilities and seizing cement and other supplies donated through the United Nations for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. They said Hamas was using the supplies to help restore...
Uranium-enriching centrifuges on display in Tehran (Caren Firouz/Reuters)

Dealing with a Bad Iranian Nuclear Agreement

The Obama administration and the rest of the P5+1 will likely agree soon on a limited-duration agreement with Iran that aims to provide around one year of warning time before any breakout to nuclear...

Nicholas Kristof’s quasi-Apartheid imagery

In a New York Times Sunday review feature, “The Two Israels,” Kristof not only presented a one-sided assessment of the situation of the Negev Bedouin community but unintentionally used apartheid imagery. Not only does...

The Fatal Flaw in Obama’s Dealings With Iran

‘Extraordinarily reasonable,” President Obama called it in an interview aired on Sunday, referring to the multiparty deal being negotiated on Iran’s nuclear-weapons program. When the talks began, Mr. Obama said it was “unacceptable” for...

Hamas rejects Palestinian state in Gaza Strip

Abu Marzouk: Gaza pays the price for refusing Israeli proposals 12-03-2015,09:41 http://www.qassam.ps/news-9211-Abu_Marzouk_Gaza_pays_the_price_for_refusing_Israeli_proposals.html Al Qassam website - Member of Hamas political bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk said Wednesday evening that Gaza is paying the price over refusing Israeli proposals...

No peace in our time

Of all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea that peace prospects are now dead because Netanyahu has declared that there will be...