Tag: Middle East
Epstein’s network may have had a major hand in blocking peace initiatives in the Middle East—past and present
Ari Ben-Menashe is an Iranian-born former Israel Defense Forces intelligence operative.
In the 1980s, he was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal in which American hostages were released from Lebanon in exchange for...
For the third time in five months, drones carrying explosives have attacked boats in the Gaza flotillas. I was in Tunis when the Familia and Alma ships were attacked by drones carrying explosives.
On the evening of September 8, an explosive dropped from a drone hit Familia,” the lead ship of the Global...
The well-organized Palestine conference in Detroit brought more than 4,600 there, with a heavy Palestinian presence.
Most of the speakers in the plenaries were genuine Palestinian activists tested in battle, not well-known writers or professors.
The over 270 journalists who have been targeted and murdered for informing the world of the...
The UAE’s Big Brother Is the Central Intelligence Agency
The UAE, the United Arab Emirates, is a cancer spreading in Africa. This cancer has infected much of eastern Africa and is spreading into northern, central and western parts of the continent.
The worst outbreak of this disease—the UAE disease, has been...
After October 7, Marwan Barghouti called on Palestinian factions to rise up to fight the oppressive Israeli occupation. According to Al Jazeera, “this call to action spread like wildfire” and resulted in Marwan being sent to solitary confinement.
As Palestinian life hangs in the balance, calls for his release have...
There was a time when American clergy were the nation’s conscience. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many abolitionist Protestant ministers were leaders in the movement to end slavery. Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards, Jr. (1746-1801) was among the many outstanding voices in the Abolition Movement.
Since World War I, few members...
As the genocide of Palestinians continues with daily massacres of scores, sometimes hundreds, of starving people being targeted and killed by the Israeli military as they come to attempt to get food, another ship of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition, the Handala, is sailing to bring attention to the criminal actions of the...
The ongoing genocide in Gaza has brought greater global attention to the plight of Palestinians, a huge number of whom have been refugees since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 when they were expelled from their land in what is known as the Nakba.
The brutal Israeli...
In early July, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, issued a damning report detailing how large corporations profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and genocide in Gaza that has taken place since...
From 2011 to 2016, demonstrations in Syria against the Ba’athist government headed by Bashar al-Assad escalated into an armed insurgency and large-scale pitched battles, sieges and counter-sieges in and around major Syrian cities such as Aleppo and Damascus. During that time, agents of U.S. diplomacy, soft power, defense and...
