Palestine

The displacement, dispossession and dispersal of the Palestinian people is known to them as an-Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" or "disaster”. Nakba Day (Arabic: Yawm an-Nakba, meaning "Day of the Catastrophe") is generally commemorated on 15 May, the day after the Gregorian calendar date for Israeli Independence Day (Yom Ha'atzmaut). For the Palestinians it is an annual day of commemoration of the displacement that preceded and followed the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. More than 760,000 Palestinians -- estimated today to number 4.8 million with their descendants -- were pushed into exile or driven out of their homes in the conflict surrounding Israel's creation in 1948. These refugees and their descendants number several million people today, divided between Jordan (2 million), Lebanon (427,057), Syria (477,700), the West Bank (788,108) and the Gaza Strip (1.1 million), with at least another quarter of a million internally displaced Palestinians in Israel. Around 160,000 Palestinians, who remained in Israel after 1948, now number around 1.36 million people, or 20 percent of the country's population. Facebook temporarily blocked a page overnight, run by Palestinian activitists, promoting Nakba commemoration events in Jaffa. According to the Palestinians, right-wing Israelis report violations on the group's page that results Facebook temporarily blocking the site down for several hours.

President Abbas accepted the resignation of Palestinian Authority prime minister, the US-backed Prime Minister Salam Fayyad whose decision to quit comes after weeks of tension within leadership.

April 1, 2013 (TSR-SANA) - Dozens of Palestinians participating in a march marking the occasion of Land Day on Saturday expelled the Qatari al-Jazeera Channel's staff from Sakhnin City...

December 31, 2012 (TSR) - President Shimon Peres on Sunday strongly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on their handling of the Palestinian issue. Speaking...

December 6, 2012 (TSR) - "Israel should realize that the world's political situation and international laws with regard to Palestine have changed after Palestine was granted the status of...

SPECIAL REPORT SERIES by Lady Michelle Jennifer Santos – TSR Founder & Publisher, Political Strategist and Strategy/Peace Negotiator with the UN Security Council Special Envoy to the Arab Nations Aug. 23,...

by Dr. James Tracy, Ph.D. Media history and analysis, Political Economy of Communication November 27, 2012 (TSR) - The week-long Israeli onslaught against largely defenseless Palestinians in Gaza that began on...

by Uri Avnery, Peace Activist, Journalist, Writer, Founding Member of Gush Shalom (Peace Bloc), Former Three-Term Member of the Israeli Knesset and the original advocate of the "Two-State Solution"...

by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Lady Michelle-Jennifer Santos, Publisher's Note: The following article is path-breaking analysis which was first published in November of 2006. For supplement and deeper context of this...

 by Michel Chossudovsky, Canadian Economist, Economic Adviser to governments of developing countries and Consultant for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), African Development Bank, International Labour Organization (ILO), World Health Organisation (WHO), et al. Lady...

The US was once part of the international consensus against extra-judicial assassinations. Now it is a leader in that tactic.

Lady Michelle-Jennifer Santos, Founder & Publisher's Note: This report was prepared by an international group of journalists, human rights workers and teachers in Gaza. Here are their statement to...