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Palestine TV was once the boring channel that viewers skipped over while searching for entertainment. But this time, the state-run station has picked a winner — an irreverent comedy show that mocks and often bites the hand that feeds it: the government.
In the live-fire exercise, everything was carefully choreographed — Palestinian commandos, faces blackened, stormed a hide-out in an abandoned building, "wounded" one gunman and "arrested" a second.
Palestine is set to play its first international soccer match on home soil.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas gunmen captured the headquarters of the Fatah-allied security forces in northern Gaza, seizing control of a key prize in the bloody power struggle between the sides, Hamas and Fatah officials said.
Before "Paradise Now" received its best foreign-language film nomination Tuesday, Academy Award executives debated a movie credit with rare geopolitical dimensions.
Israel decisively defeated Hamas in Gaza a year ago, doing great damage and killing about 1500 people. The "brave Hamas warriors" ran like rats, hiding behind children. Israel showed restraint.
U.S. falls short in bid to gain support for Israel's settlement freezeThe United States fell short in its efforts to gain a declaration of international support for Israel's temporary settlement construction freeze.
Palestinian Woman Suffers A Stroke After Settlers Invade Her Family's HouseOn Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 1:00am, five settlers and settler security, who are currently occupying the Gawi family house in Sheikh Jarrah, attempted to take over a section of a house belonging to the Palestinian al-Kurd family.
IDF fears settlers may attack Palestinians in response to freezeIsrael Defense Forces officers in the West Bank have expressed concerned that settlers may escalate their acts of opposition to the freeze on settlement construction by targeting the Palestinian population.
If settlers are our brothers, I have no brother "The settlers are our brothers," Prime Minister Netanyahu said this week, trying to convey their holy wrath. But let me make it clear: T hey are not my brothers. I don't have any brothers like that, or sisters
Goldstone wins human rights award from Sweden NGOs Richard Goldstone, the South African jurist and author of a controversial UN report which accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes during the Israel Defense Forces' military offensive in the Gaza Strip last winter, will receive the Stockholm Human Rights Award, it was an …
To Israel, with love - from IndiaThe greatest level of sympathy towards Israel can be found in India, according to international study on behalf of the Foreign Ministry, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday. According to the study, which was unprecedented in scope and was undertaken by an international market res …
Israeli Court To Al-Kurd family: Settlers Will Stay in Your HomeThe Israeli Central Court heard and rejected Wednesday the petition of the Al-Kurd family seeking the eviction of Israeli settlers from their home.
Despite freeze, Israel okays 84 new settlement buildings Israel approved on Wednesday the construction of 84 buildings in West Bank settlements, despite a 10-month moratorium on new building in the territories that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced last week.
The Illegal-Settlements Myth: An analysis from the point of view of history and international lawThe conviction that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal is now so commonly accepted, it hardly seems as though the matter is even open for discussion. But it is.
EU envoys: Israel trying to sever East Jerusalem from West Bank A classified report drafted by European consuls in East Jerusalem and Ramallah slams Israeli policy in East Jerusalem and recommends that the European Union take steps to strengthen the Palestinian Authority's status in the city.
Israel stripped thousands of Jerusalem Arabs of residency in 2008 Altogether, the ministry revoked the residency of 4,577 East Jerusalemites in 2008 - 21 times the average of the previous 40 years.
Conspiracy of Equating Militancy and Islam It is quite fashionable to use the term "Islamic Militants" even by local print media to identify "Muslims" who perpetrate acts of terror in the country and around the world.
Holy Land Trust Promotes Nonviolent Resistance to Discrimination in PalestineArticle I wrote for AAPER's December America-Palestine Report.
UN chief 'dismayed' at Israel over East Jerusalem eviction The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban ki-Moon, criticized Israel on Tuesday over its "provocative" eviction of a Palestinian family from a house in East Jerusalem.
How does the U.S. help fund pro-settler IDF troops? The Task Force to Save the Nation and the Land, the organization that offered every soldier refusing to evacuate a settlement, and the Kfir Brigade soldiers who publicly demonstrated their opposition to evacuation, NIS 1,000 for every day they spend in military prison, is a regis …
Israel: EU stance on Jerusalem harms peace talksEU foreign ministers are expected to issue an official call next week for Jerusalem to be divided, in order to serve as the capitals of both Israel and a Palestinian state.
EU set to recognize East Jerusalem as capital of PalestineThe Israeli Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said that the European Union's intention to call for the division of Jerusalem would further harm the chances of renewing peace talks with the Palestinians.
Disappointed with Obama? Take a number"In the Arab-Islamic world, Barack Obama has come down to earth", writes Fouad Ajami. In fact, there's nothing trendier these days than being disappointed with the President. Take a look - it took no more than 5 minutes to comprise this short list.
The first [planned] Palestinian city"For many Palestinians, the norm is tight-quartered living with barely a garden in sight, no defined sidewalks and a poor water system. But this is about to change with an ambitious plan for a new way of living.
I've now moved into Articles primarily devoted to "Global Indie" Music and Culture, primarily in Eurasia, N Africa, A America, Canada, Mexico, and Australia. There are MANY Genres of Music, and a large amount of other forms of Arts Media, being dismissed here as "merely fringe".
The West Banktustan or a South Pacifc Island Archipalego?Ahoy mateys ! Well gang - it seems La West Bank is looking more and more like some tropical island cluster - replete with Tahitian barbed wire coral reefs and concrete barrier beaches. Aloha Oy Vey ! Bien Sur Zzzzzzzzzzionism InAction !!
Beautiful views, shame about the neighboursDuring just one week in October, settlers denied Palestinians access to their land, threw rocks at harvesters, cut down trees and intimidated farmers, according to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).
Israel is lying to itself about 'united Jerusalem' We are talking to ourselves, inventing bogus axioms and sticking with them as if they were decreed from on high, convinced that the whole world accepts them. But we are only talking to ourselves. No one else accepts them.
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