Sunni radicals hit Baghdad Tuesday morning on the anniversary of the beginning of the US war on Iraq, killing over 50 people in attacks on soft targets (shopkeepers, pedestrians) in Shiite areas of the capital. They were signaling their continued die-hard opposition to the new Iraq, which is dominated by Shiite political parties, in which [...]

El sistema de sufrimiento que Estados Unidos impone a los pueblos del mundo (1965-2014) Pham To tenía un aspecto estupendo para sus 78 años de edad (al menos, esa era la edad que él pensaba que tenía). Su cabello era fino, canoso, y le raleaba en las sienes, pero sus ojos eran vivaces y su físico [...]

What do a Palestinian farmer who is living in a village tucked in between the secluded West Bank hills, a prisoner on hunger strike in an Israeli jail and a Palestinian refugee roaming the Middle East for shelter all have in common? They are all characters in one single, authentic, solid and cohesive narrative. The [...]

 “Nuestros enemigos no cruzaron nuestras fronteras Se deslizaron como hormigas a través de nuestra debilidad” Nizar Qabbani, “Apuntes en el cuaderno de la derrota” [“Hawamesh ‘ala Daftar al-Naksah”, 1967]

1. Los halcones israelíes afirman estar implicados en un “proceso de paz ” con los palestinos en el que Hamas rehúsa a participar. La realidad es que Israel se ha negado a detener las colonizaciones y el robo de tierras palestinas durante un tiempo suficiente para participar en negociaciones productivas con ellos. Regularmente, Tel Aviv [...]

El Derecho de Retorno es el alma y fuego de la causa palestina, es lavarle el rostro a la historia de la humanidad escribiendo la noble historia del regreso de un pueblo a su tierra. Soy hija de refugiados campesinos palestinos, sobrevivientes de Al-Nakba. Al tío de mi madre, Hassan Abdel–Aziz, le encontraron su pierna en [...]

1. Israeli hawks represent themselves as engaged in a ‘peace process’ with the Palestinians in which Hamas refuses to join. In fact, Israel has refused to cease colonizing and stealing Palestinian land long enough to engage in fruitful negotiations with them. Tel Aviv routinely announces new, unilateral house-building on the Palestinian West Bank. There [...]

In the shadow of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s theatrics at the United Nations last week, armed with his cartoon Iranian bomb, Israeli officials launched a quieter, but equally combative, initiative to extinguish whatever hopes have survived of reviving the peace process.

“Las llamas se están acercando rápidamente a Yarmuk (como) alguien que trata de arrastrar a los palestinos al fuego”, informó el comentarista palestino, Rashad Abu Shawar (como cita el Jerusalem Post de Israel el 20 de julio). Yarmuk es el mayor campo de refugiados palestinos en Siria. Sus habitantes representan casi una cuarta parte de toda [...]

Many Palestinians remember and reference al-Nakba, also known as the Catastrophe, on May 15 every year. The event marks the expulsion of nearly a million Palestinians, while their villages were destroyed. The destruction of Palestine in 1947-48 ushered in the birth of Israel. Older generations relay the harsh and oppressive memory of their collective experience [...]