Intifada Palestine

By Alain Gresh
This essay addresses the Palestine question within a European context. After reflecting on why Palestine has been widely embraced as a “universal cause,” the author explores its relationship to the “Jewish question” in the changed context following World War II: Whereas prior to the war it was the Jews who were perceived as a threat to European civilization, today it is the Muslim immigrants who have the scapegoat role.

Stuart Littlewood
And to mark the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Israel ordered its warships to carry out yet another act of piracy on peaceful, innocent shipping carrying humanitarian relief to the imprisoned people of Gaza.

by Omar Radwan
The Israeli government has adopted a new plan to “resettle” the Bedouin residents of unrecognised villages in the Negev. This plan in fact is a blueprint for ethnic cleansing and the destruction of the Bedouin way of life.

by Brenda Heard
In the very hours of forbidding the passage of the aid flotilla to Gaza, the financially strapped Greek government welcomed the approval of an €8.7 billion aid payment from the European Union.

by Haytham A K. Radwan
This year marks the 44nd anniversary of the June War that led to Israel‟s illegal occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights. It is a myth not to believe that Zionism had provoked the June War in 1967 against Syria in order to capture the Golan Heights.