Fatah and Hamas tie the knot. Shit.

Exciting news coming in from Cairo tonight: Fatah and Hamas, to the surprise of almost everyone, have come to an agreement to resolve all their issues and create a government of national unity. Too good to be true?

Itamar Killers Found?

After several weeks of besieging the village of Awarta, the Israeli authorities have announced that two teenagers from the village have admitted to carrying out the killings. Something stinks.

The Brutality of Bahrain

While democracy campaigners have faced vicious crackdowns across the Arab world this year, none have been so thoroughly crushed as the peaceful protesters in Bahrain.

Questions on Libya

As the Libyan uprising closes in on its second month, too much of the discourse about it has been clouded. I’ve got so many questions. Who’s got answers?

From Self-Hating Jew to a Good Zionist. Again.

The Goldstone report, commissioned by the UN to investigate possible war crimes during the war on Gaza, has been held up as a seminal achievement in the history of diplomatic advocacy for Palestine. It is a thorough look at the devastating consequences of Israel’s bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip, and left no doubt as to the [...]

Israel to build a yacht marina for Gaza’s playboys

Sometimes (usually once a day), Israel does something so stupid, offensive and destructive that we realize Zionism is a far crazier ideology than what we had previously thought. Yesterday, news reports abounded that the Israeli government has been seriously studying the construction of a man-made island, several kilometers into the Mediterranean Sea, and connect it with a [...]

Syria protests for KFC, freedom

Syria, from the mind of the Western mainstream media As much of the Arab world sees uprisings that threaten to make billions of dollars worth of investments in corrupt dictators worthless, an encouraging development seems to be taking place in Syria. Long seen as the main ally of Iran, and therefore Alqaeda, Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad [...]

U of Michigan students walkout on IDF

As part of its constant propaganda efforts that aim to sterilize and justify Israeli atrocities, especially on Gaza, Stand With Us [As We Perpetrate Apartheid] sent two Israeli soldiers to speak at the University of Michigan. There, the war criminals began justifying the murder of Gaza’s besieged refugees, and were subject to this

HORROR! Fake settlement freeze to expire. Maybe.

Illegal Israeli colonialists are traumatized. Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon says his government’s freeze on its colonization-a severe violation of human rights-is an unprecedented sacrifice for peace. The settlers themselves have spent the past ten months attacking Palestinian homes, burning mosques and crops, and killing one or two natives, a a temper tantrum they termed [...]

3 minute recap: Obama’s UN speech

Barack Obama, the US president, has urged countries in the United Nations to get behind Middle East peace efforts in an address at the UN General Assembly.

But Ali Hasan Abunimah, a Palestinian-American journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada, an independent web site about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, said Obama’s speech did not represent anything new.

“That bodes very ill for the peace process that he’s so invested in,” Abunimah told Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi, speaking from the US state of Indiana.

“Let’s judge him not by what he says, but what he does.”