International Features

The general image built up by the relentless pro Jewish Western media since the 1979 Islamic Revolution has been that women in Iran were an oppressed lot without any freedom that the women in the West were supposed to have been blessed with. I too was partly a victim of this powerful Western propaganda that is part of the western …

A two day conference in support of Palestinian struggle for freedom under the title “Palestine –the Symbol of Resistance; Gaza the Victim of Crime” was held in Tehran on 4 and 5 of March this year. The conference attended by more than 80 delegates comprising of politicians, intellectuals, human rights activists,journalists and numerous others from all corners of the world …

The film Slumdog Millionaire after already having won several international awards has gone on to win no less than eight Oscars. No film, it appears, has ever provoked so sensational an international response as this one. What on earth is all this about? The question arises because on the surface it seems to be no more than an average rags-to-riches …

The following speech by Sir. Gerald Kaufman httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGuYjt6CP8 I was brought up as an orthodox Jew and a Zionist. On a shelf in our kitchen, there was a tin box for the Jewish National Fund, into which we put coins to help the pioneers building a Jewish presence in Palestine. I first went to Israel in 1961 and I have …

PRINCE OF PALESTINE WAS DULY ELECTED BY THE PALESTINIANS, PERHAPS IN A BEST ELECTION EVER HELD IN ARAB WORLD. THERE WAS NO VIOLENCE, RIGGING, AND ABSOLUTE TRANSPARENCY. THE END RESULT THEY WERE DECLARED  ” TERRORISTS”. NOW  WE KNOW ANY DEMOCRACY TO SUCCEED IN THE ARAB WORLD IT HAS TO BE MADE IN USISRAEL. George Mitchell is facing a daunting task, …

At last, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon seems to be doing what he is expected to do. After more than one thousand Palestinians have died, one third of them children, Ban is taking some measures, which he should have taken the very first day Israel launched its barbaric attack on the defenceless Palestinian people in Gaza. His delayed action …