US Ambassador to the United Nations Nimrata “Nikki” Singh Randhawa Haley on Tuesday walked out of the chamber when the Palestinian ambassador began to speak. Palestine, like the Vatican, has non-member observer state status at the UN. You’re not a very good diplomat if you won’t even listen to what one of the parties to […]
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Middle East
Everything you Always wanted to Know about Palestine and were afraid to Ask (Noura Erekat CBS Video Interview)
New York (CBS News) Noura Erakat, a human rights attorney and assistant professor at George Mason University, discusses the Palestinian reaction to the U.S. embassy opening in Jerusalem and examines the influence of Hamas on Palestinians in Gaza. CBS News: “How are Palestinians reacting to the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem and violence in Gaza?”
Stop telling Palestinians to be ‘resilient’ – the rest of the world has failed them
(The Conversation) Viewed from Palestine, it’s hard to disagree that we’ve perhaps seen one of the most inflammatory weeks in recent memory. In just a few days, several extremely sensitive events have coincided to devastating effect: the culmination of weekly protests in the Gaza Strip, the relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to […]
Can Palestinians be Killed? Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?
Social media is being scathing about the diction chosen by the New York Times, CNN and even the Guardian to speak of the some 55 peacefully protesting Palestinians whom Israeli snipers cold-bloodedly shot dead on Monday and the some 2700 whom they wounded, half of those with live fire. The headlines or lead paragraphs spoke […]
Still not Bush’s Iraq: Anti-American Cleric, Pro-Iran Militia and Communists ahead in Election
Baghdad (AFP) – An alliance spearheaded by nationalist cleric Moqtada Sadr, whose fighters once battled the United States, led Monday in surprise preliminary results from Iraq’s first poll since the defeat of the Islamic State group. In a further political upset, a rival bloc of pro-Iranian former fighters appeared to be coming in second, squeezing […]
Israeli Snipers massacre Palestinians at Gaza Border Rally, killing 55 & injuring over 2,700
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — At least 55 Palestinians have been killed and more than 2,700 others injured alongside the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. The latest death toll was reported by the ministry at 9:30 p.m. The ministry added that 2,771 people were […]
The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them
The move of the Trump administration of the US embassy to Jerusalem is intended, according to the president, to signal a recognition of the reality that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. This move is controversial because Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem is not recognized in international law. The 1947 partition plan suggested in the UN […]
Iran Foreign Minister in Moscow as Russia moves to save nuclear deal
Moscow (AFP) – Iran’s foreign minister was in Moscow on Monday as Russia tries to keep the Iran nuclear deal alive in the wake of Washington’s pull-out, pushing it into rare cooperation with Europe. Iranian state television Irib broadcasted images of Mohammad Javad Zarif in Moscow, saying he had arrived in Russia at 4am (01:00 […]
Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War: a Future Cataclysm between US, Israel, Saudi and Iran?
( Tomdispatch) With Donald Trump’s decision to shred the Iran nuclear agreement, announced last Tuesday, it’s time for the rest of us to start thinking about what a Third Gulf War would mean. The answer, based on the last 16 years of American experience in the Greater Middle East, is that it won’t be pretty. […]








