Tag: israel

Lebanon has entered a decisive week during which its parliament is due to elect a new president. With tanks and troops deployed on the streets,...

THE United States and its puppet Iraqi government are seeking to renew the UN mandate for Iraq for just one year, meaning that the...

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has published a ‘A Communiqué from Arab Prisoners of War In An-Naqab Desert Prison. ‘Demanding to put the...

ONE can now see why the Zionists and the US government were so keen to get rid of Yasser Arafat. He not only refused to...

HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah addressed a mass rally in the Lebanese capital Beirut last Saturday to mark ‘Martyrs’ Day’ celebrations. He spoke about the...

Chief PLO Negotiator Saeb Erekat met with US Assistant Secretary of State David Walsh and American Consul General Jake Wallacey on Sunday. The meeting took...

On Saturday at least 150,000 people from all walks of life and in every part of the USA participated in eleven regional demonstrations against...

IRAN has responded with a heroic defiance to the new economic sanctions imposed by the US ruling class that target its military defence, the...

ISRAEL’S defence minister is once again preparing to approve cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel to Gaza, to try once again to...

WHILE Olmert and Bush have been, and are, posing as peacemakers with their forthcoming fraud of a peace conference, a most violent and vicious...

Hezbollah MP Mustafa Ali al-Husayn last weekend warned that a planned US military base would not be safe as the Lebanon ‘would not allow...

More than 1,000 Palestinans are stranded on the Egypt-Gaza border waiting to cross home, acording to a report by the UN Office for the...

DEMONSTRATORS picketing the High Court on Wednesday, at the start of a court case against the government, demanded an immediate end to British arms...

TEN thousand people forced the police to retreat from their stated position that a march on parliament would be illegal, and that they would...

A FOREIGN Ministry spokesman said in Tehran last Sunday that the allegations being made by US General David Petraeus were baseless. Petraeus said...

GORDON Brown yesterday, at his monthly press conference, condemned the striking postal workers and their union the CWU. He called their strike action in defence...

THE current farce that is being played out, of trying a police death squad under the health and safety laws, is not only a...

THE Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds in an editorial called ‘Settlements and Water Anew’, which appeared on October 1, exposes Israeli efforts to prevent the formation...

The democratically elected Hamas government has called on Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries on Wednesday to stay away from a US-sponsored Middle East...

FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband, the ‘rising star’ in the government, was given the task of presenting Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s foreign policy strategy at...

PALESTINIANS are remembering 25 years since the Sabra and Shatila massacre in the Lebanese capital Beirut – in which over 2,000 defenceless Palestinian refugees...

HAMAS has condemned the latest Zionist decision on Wednesday to declare the Gaza Strip a ‘hostile entity’ and to cut off vital fuel and...

A FATAH spokesperson denied on Sunday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) intends to ask Washington to postpone the US-sponsored conference on the Palestinian-Israeli...

FRENCH Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Sunday that in relation to Iran: ‘We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is...

THE Socialist Arab Ba’ath Party in Iraq has affirmed that the report presented by the two assistants to the American president in Iraq, Ambassador...

IT is a disgrace that at this week’s TUC Congress there are no resolutions on the Middle East and Afghanistan where over...

TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday opposed a boycott of Israel and did not answer a question about why there were no motions to...

ON Friday August 31, the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Birri, delivered a speech outlining his proposals for the current political crisis...

THE banning of the Under-19 Gaza football team from coming to play in Britain after they had been invited to play against Chester...

President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad in Tehran on Wednesday voiced Iran’s readiness to share its nuclear achievements with other nations within the framework and under the...

THE Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has told the Italian daily, Corriere della Sera on August 20 – ‘How can anyone talk of...

CAMP for Climate Action protesters yesterday morning were still besieging British Airports Authority (BAA) head office at Heathrow Airport. Protesters were camped out under...

WITH more US troops dying and the numbers of Iraqi civilians being killed and injured rising throughout Iraq, the US military surge has failed...

France is considering further sanctions against ‘the members and support structures’ of the Iranian government over Iran’s nuclear programme, the French foreign ministry said...

THE US yesterday raised tensions considerably between itself and Iran by declaring that the main body of armed men maintained by the Iranian...

HEZBOLLAH’S victory over Israel in the July war of 2006 changed the relationship of forces in the Middle East, and the significance of that...

The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee of MPs has said the UK government’s ‘decision not to speak to Hamas in 2007 following the Mecca...

Ezzet Al-Resheq, political bureau member of the Hamas Movement, on Monday castigated Palestinian National Authority (PNA) president Mahmud Abbas for insisting on meeting with...

THE ex-Iranian president and current chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, has spoken up about the crisis that the US is seeking...

Palestinian Ma’an news agency’s reports on developments in the occupied territories last Friday, August 3rd, illustrate the heroic daily resistance of the Palestinian people. At...

The TUC preliminary agenda covers the mounting concerns of workers over jobs, wages and conditions, public services and basic rights. The agenda opens...

EGYPTIAN presidential spokesman Sulayman Awwad said yesterday that President Husni Mubarak’s talks last Tuesday 31 July with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and...

THAT the US is preparing a new great war in the Middle East and the Gulf to destroy Iran and Syria is crystal clear...

All the public sector trade unions must unite for action to bring down the Brown government and replace it with a workers government and...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya met a delegation from the Euro-Med Human Rights Committee at his office in Gaza last Saturday....