By Sami Jamil Jadallah
Before there was the Israel Defense Forces “IDF” there were the Jewish terrorist groups in Mandated Palestine. Before there was state terrorism committed by an army of the state, IDF, there was Jewish terrorism and terrorists committing crimes and murder against Arabs, British and even Jews.
Before the State of Israel became an [...]
Back in 2005, the Italian weekly magazine Il venerdì della Repubblica published an important interview with Columbia University Professor Mahmood Mamdani, upon occasion of the publication in Italian of his book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. At the time, I translated the interview into English, as well as publishing on my blog a segment from another [...]
(at the left, one of the cartoons circulating in the civilised US on Zionist and Conservative sites)
WRITTEN BY JAY KNOTT
Who could fail to be against fascism, the movement which drove Germany and Italy in World War II, which culminated in the murder of millions of civilians in concentration camps? But anti-fascism implies a lot more [...]
Support for Derry Anti-War Protestors
UPDATE!
The trial of the Raytheon 9 finally got underway today, Tues 20th May, at Laganside Court in Belfast. The day started well with about 50 people congregating outside the Courthouse. 28 of them carried placards with photographs of the men, women and children who died in the Qana massacre of 30 [...]
I remember a few years ago walking through the wonderful narrow streets of the occupied Old city of Jerusalem, seeing a small shop managed by an old Palestinian man who was selling souvenirs to the tourists. I entered the shop, not because I wanted to buy something, I am not a tourist in my own [...]
Pope Benedict described Israel’s 60th Independence Day as a sign of God’s beneficence toward the Jews.
“I would like to congratulate the State of Israel on its 60th Independence Day,” Yediot Achronot quoted Benedict as telling Motti Levy, the new Israeli ambassador to the Vatican, on Monday.
“The Holy See is united with you, and thanks God [...]
WRITTEN BY JOHN CATALINOTTO
Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, popular because of their successful resistance to past Israeli attacks on the country, have answered a provocation from the U.S.- backed Lebanese government and at the same time handed a sharp military defeat to rightist forces, especially in Beirut. By May 12 heavy fighting between the Hezbollah-led opposition [...]
(Arabic translation below)
WRITTEN BY ABDUL BARI ATWAN,Editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Translated by Adib S. Kawar
The last four days uncovered the reality of the balance of power in Lebanon, for when the pro-government leaders, such as Saad Al-Hariri and Walid Jumblatt find themselves under siege, and cannot leave their headquarters, and ask for the army’s protection, [...]
(illustration by Mazen Kerbaj - translation below*)
What is going on today in Lebanon is just an extension of the situation in the entire region. The US and its western allies are trying to show everyone that religion is the main factor of this dispute and they are trying to cover the political motivations and especially [...]
WRITTEN BY BENNY ZIFFER for Haaretz Hebrew Edition
On Sunday, one of my students (I am a lecturer in a course from four to six at Tel Aviv University) approached me after the class and told me that she was the producer of an alternative Memorial evening, which also takes into account cruelty to Palestinians, that [...]
