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Muslim Brotherhood Marks Palestine Nakba Day with Renewed Liberation Vows

On this day, sixty-eight years ago (May 15, 1948), the United Nations issued its fateful resolution No. 181 for the partition of Palestine, granting what it never owned to Zionist

Brotherhood on Nakba Day: Arab Spring Will Change Continued Israeli Occupation Equation

Egypt Muslim Brotherhood statement commemorates Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) Day, condemning Israeli escalation of settlement-building, Judaization schemes and forced displacement of increasing numbers of Palestinian people.

FJP on Nakba Day: No Land Exchange, No Palestine Right of Return Compromise

Nakba Day, Yawm An-Nakba, or Day of the Catastrophe, is 15th of May. It commemorates the forced displacement of Palestinians that preceded and followed the Israeli 1948 Declaration of Independence.

Israel closes West Bank for three days

The Israeli occupation authority imposed a hermetic closure on the West Bank as of midnight Saturday and for three days, the Hebrew radio reported on Sunday.

“GOD-TV” evangelical Christian channel funds Israeli ethnic cleansing

Neve Gordon looks at how an evangelical Christian TV channel with a viewership of nearly half a billion people, including 20 million in the USA and 14 million in Britain,

New History or a New Mirage

Echoing Edward Said, the legendary Palestinian scholar, Antoine Raffoul addresses the ambiguities of Israel’s "new historians" who, with the clear exception of Ilan Pappe, condemn the occupation but fail to

PRC holds a workshop titled

The London based Palestinian Return Centre is to hold on Friday a workshop during which Professor Salman Abu Sitta will be launching "The Atlas of Palestine 1917-1966" in which he

The Israeli Knesset’s Anti-Democratic Agenda

An earlier article discussed the Mossawa Center calling the current Knesset the most racist in history.

His father’s boy: the three faces of Binyamin Netanyahu

Uri Avnery considers the three faces of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: the unprincipled conman, the street-wise trickster and the advocate of Greater Israel. He concludes that while Netanyahu displays

Leaked letter reveals Obama’s contempt for international law

Stuart Littlewood views US President Barack Obama’s willingness to ride roughshod over international law and the Geneva Conventions by granting Israel reckless and extravagant favours – courtesy of US taxpayers