Arab League Priorities Clash with the Israeli Election Outcome

Steven Sahiounie The Arab League met in Algeria for the first time in two years, and their final declaration called for freedom for the Palestinian people who have suffered under a brutal Israeli military occupation for almost six decades.  The meeting of nearly 22 nations across the Middle East and North Africa coincided with Israeli…

Israel Grants Settler Group $7.9 Million to Advance Colonialism

The Cradle A man places the Palestinian flag on the Israeli separation wall, with Israeli settlements in the background. (Photo credit: REUTERS/Ammar Awad) The new settlement project is intended to strip rightful Palestinian landowners of their land under the guise of tourism and natural parks The “Elad” settlement association received 28 million shekels, or roughly…

Netanyahu Returns, but Israel’s Political and Military Landscape Has Changed

Abdel Bari Atwan Bibi is back, leading Israel’s most right-wing government but also facing unprecedented Palestinian resistance and global turmoil. While the Arab Summit in Algeria affirmed its adherence to the so-called ‘Arab Peace Initiative’ as a final solution to the Palestinian issue, Israel’s response came quickly and resolutely with the return to power of Benjamin Netanyahu and…

UN’s Francesca Albanese Calls for Paradigm Shift to End Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Palestine

Iqbal Jassat Described as a “game changer”, the latest report on Palestine by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), has been welcomed as a breath of fresh air by human rights organisations. Unsurprisingly, Israel has rejected it and in keeping with its typical kneejerk reaction, has galvanised Europe and the…

Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco Oppose Palestinian Faction Agreement

The Cradle Arab League 2022 – Photo Credit: Algerian Presidency The three nations have refrained from issuing statements on the Palestinian faction agreement On 2 November, Egyptian diplomatic sources confirmed the existence of a tripartite resistance to the Palestinian faction agreement and the mechanisms for its implementation, including Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco, according to Al-Araby news. The…

Algeria Declaration: Palestine is Our Central Cause

Al Mayadeen The Arab League Summit issued, on its second day in the Palace of Conferences in Algiers, the Algeria Declaration document. The heads of the Arab states stressed “the centrality of the Palestinian cause and full support for the rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to freedom and self-determination and the right to return,…

Statement of H. E. Bassam Sabbagh at the UNSC Meeting on “The Situation in the Middle East” 28/10/2022

Sabbagh: Israeli occupation practices against the Arab people in Palestine and the Syrian Golan are grave violations of international law 2022-10-28 New York-Sana Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh, stressed that the continued Israeli occupation of Arab lands and its practices against the Arab people in Palestine and the Syrian Golan…

Shocking Details of Zionist Biological Warfare Against Palestinians Exposed

Kit Klarenberg Academics Benny Morris of Ben-Gurion University and Benjamin Z. Kedar of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have produced an extraordinary paper based on a welter of archival material, exposing in disturbing detail the hitherto obfuscated dimensions of an operation by Zionist forces to use chemical and biological weapons against both invading Arab armies and local…

Australia’s Jerusalem Reversal Marks the Death of Trump’s « Deal of the Century »

Ramzy Baroud US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Deal of the Century” was meant to represent a finality of sorts, an event reminiscent of Francis Fukuyama’s premature declaration of the “End of History” and the uncontested supremacy of western capitalism. In effect, it was a declaration that “we” – the US, Israel, and a few allies…

West Bank Turns into Gaza and The Lions’ Den Survives

Robert Inlakesh This Monday night, an undercover Israeli special forces unit was uncovered whilst operating close to the Old City of Nablus, resulting in a four-hour gun-battle and the killing of 5 Palestinians. Despite the losses, behind this story is a massive failure for the Israeli military and one they continue to cover up. Late…

Israel’s Secret, Illegal Biological War against Arabs

Kit Klarenberg For decades the use of banned biological weapons during the Nakba was kept hidden in Israel’s archives. Recent discoveries have shed light not only on this Zionist war crime, but also the sinister motive behind it. In September, a highly revealing academic paper was published exposing the details of a previously hidden operation by Zionist militias…

Gaza Announces General Strike in Solidarity with Victims of Israeli Aggressions

The Cradle Israel’s latest assault on Nablus has resulted in the deaths of six people and injured 21 civilians Palestinian factions announced on 25 October a general strike in the Gaza Strip, following the killing of six people during the occupation forces’ attack on the city of Nablus. In a press conference held in Gaza after…