Israel’s siege of Gaza bears stark semblances to the 64-year-old US blockade of Cuba, Jose Ramon Cabañas Rodriguez tells MEMO

This year's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was yet another missed opportunity for Britain. There were no messages of support or atonement from Whitehall for the...

There was a time when Israel's requests for US aid, military or otherwise, were granted spontaneously and unreservedly. That is no longer the case. While the majority members of...

Israel is finally waking up to the stark reality that it can no longer continue with its forever wars in Gaza. This was the critical message from Foreign Minister Yair...

Within minutes after it was taken, the photo of US Major General Chris Donahue boarding a C-17 plane in Kabul went viral. The 20-year war had ended in a...

Establishing an army or security apparatus to serve the interests of an occupying power is no easy task, not even in the best of times. The US has finally...

The great floods which recently decimated parts of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands were much more than a warning on the perils of climate change. They also revealed some...

This is one of the uncomfortable questions raised by the newly declassified Clinton files. A diplomatic dispatch to the former Secretary of State dated 12 October 2011 revealed that...

Britain's dramatic change of policy toward China has been underpinned by two charges. That Beijing violated its international treaty obligations in Hong Kong and secondly, that it has engaged...

A press release issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 14 July described its judgement against Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE as "final, without appeal and...

In August 2016 The Economist magazine published a leader article titled "The ruining of Egypt;" it spoke of a dangerous mix of repression and economic incompetence and the likelihood...

Israel's project to annex 40 per cent of the occupied West Bank is hanging in the balance. Without the long-awaited green light from the Trump administration, it will remain...

Anniversaries are usually occasions for reflection and soul searching and the first anniversary since the passing of Mohamed Morsi is no exception. It evokes memories of his life and...

Nothing new has come out of the virtual visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories by James Cleverly, Britain's Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa. It...

Donald Trump's refusal to address the legitimate grievances of America's black population has underscored, yet again, why his country does not qualify to be the 'leader of the free...

Cultural boycott is one of the most effective methods of peaceful protest against institutional racism. It was used successfully against South Africa's apartheid regime in the 1980s. In order...

There will be no tears now Israel and the US have withdrawn from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Both countries have undermined the organisation's credibility...

The Trump administration's failure to secure a UN resolution condemning Hamas and other resistance factions was welcomed by Palestinians as a moral and political victory. They should not, however,...

The search for Jamal Khashoggi's body is over.  After one month of extensive investigations, Turkey's attorney general has finally concluded that the body was dissolved in acid and disposed of...

As we sat for dinner after the conference, Jamal pointed out to me some of the negative tweets that were posted by his Saudi critics. He, like many compatriots, had been criticial of some Saudi politics – though he loved the people of the region unreservedly

Desperate people do desperate things. They often discredit themselves and undermine their causes. Jeremy Corbyn's critics fell into this trap when they attempted to smear him by publishing a...

In a rare act of political intervention, former US First Lady Laura Bush rebuked the Trump administration for its "zero-tolerance" policy toward illegal migrants. Writing in The Washington Post...

After all the hype the Singapore summit turned out to be damp squib. Apart from the spectacular photo opportunities, the meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un produced no...

Israelis believe they have never had it this good. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regularly brags about it. He claims that apart from a few non-conformists, most Arab countries have...

Dear President Abbas You have every right to withdraw recognition Let me begin by offering my warmest greetings on the occasion of the blessed month of Ramadan and to...

Al Jazeera’s Investigations Unit has exposed the breath-taking speed with which Islamophobia is spreading in American society

Shortly after the missile attack on Syria, US Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump bragged in his usual pompous way that it was "mission accomplished". In Britain, there was no such display...

Not for the first time, the free world has stood up for truth and justice in Palestine. The General Assembly's vote against President Trump's decision on Jerusalem was a...

With the Kurdish referendum to separate from Iraq done and dusted, Israel's ambitions in that country are all but complete. For many years, Israeli strategists and politicians alike have...

The Twittersphere went into overdrive immediately after the cancellation of the controversial African-Israeli summit. "When you are on an Apartheid selling roadshow Africans don't buy it," tweeted the South...

Do you remember that sense of excitement on your first day back at school? The delight of being promoted to a new class, the joy of meeting friends old...

After the humiliating setback at Al-Aqsa Mosque, it was inevitable that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would retaliate. His move has come sooner than expected with the detention of...