Category: Palestine

By Nima Shirazi  The so-called "Middle East Quartet" – that is, the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia – has issued a "Statement on the Situation in Gaza" today. It…

By Michael Blum Israel said on Friday that it has prevented hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists from flying to its main airport in a mass protest but that security forces will stay on…

For updates on the developing situation, see ustogaza.org From Revolution As a small flotilla prepares to … defy the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza toward the end of the month, it is…

By Kathy Kelly | June 27, 2011 Last week, newly-arrived in Athens as part of the US Boat to Gaza project, our team of activists gathered for nonviolence training.  We are here…

By Alan Goodman  It slices and zigzags through 400 miles of the West Bank four times longer than the Berlin Wall. It carves up an area that is home to two-and-a-half-million Palestinians….

From Revolution  The wave of popular uprisings that have shaken the Middle East swept up to, and momentarily into Israel on Sunday, May 15. On that day, thousands of Palestinian and other…

By Nima Shirazi Last week, Indypendent journalist and frequent Mondoweiss contributor Alex Kane noted:  "As the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement continues full-steam ahead in its efforts to force Israel to…

 From the site of Revolution newspaper  There has been in recent months a drumbeat for a military strike by Israel on Iran, supposedly to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. It is…

By Nima Shirazi  "Before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived…We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel…

By Chris Floyd    We hear a lot about barbarism and backwardness and bloodthirstiness among the nations of the Middle East, where violent religious extremists are praised and supported — and often…