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By one single act of pure evil Bashar Al-Assad has rescued the Trump presidency. Since his inauguration in January 2017, Donald Trump has struggled to get his administration up and...

Israel's decision to cut its annual contribution to the United Nations is mean-spirited and infantile. After committing itself to pay $11.7 million to the international organisation in 2017, the...

It is now one week since the Israeli authorities arrested Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement in Palestine. His arrest follows years of...

Multilateral institutions can either be tiresome talking shops or dynamic vehicles of change. The United Nations is a prime example. Although its purpose is undeniably laudable, its record of...

The Palestinians Abroad Conference in Istanbul has presented nothing less than a challenge to the national authority installed and supported by Israel's allies in Ramallah. Despite the best efforts...

Since his inauguration on 20 January, Donald Trump's presidency has been rocked by one controversy after another. Reports that Russia hacked into the offices of his Democratic rival, Hillary...

When Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu jumped into the US-Mexican brawl on 28th January he clearly did not expect the fierce response he got from Mexico. Like his soul...

"Tomorrow will look different — and tomorrow is very close."So said Israel's Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahuin response to the just-concluded Paris conference on Middle East peace, which he denounced...

If UN Security Council Resolution 2334 regarding Israel's illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is to be worth the paper it's written on, certain tangible steps must be...

Anniversaries are usually times for both celebration and soul-searching. The 29th anniversary of the launch of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is no exception. Despite many setbacks, including the...

After three years of open hostility, Egypt appears to be resetting its policy towards the Gaza Strip. Whereas in the recent past the Cairo administration has only opened the...

Though depicted by Israel and its allies as “controversial” and “inflammable”, the UNESCO votes were by no means historical oddities

After a visit to Hebron in 1996, the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said wrote, "The present situation cannot last, there are too many inequities and injustices at the heart...

  Salman Abu Sitta's Mapping My Return is much more than a personal memoir. Although the author says that it is not a research work, it does intertwine personal...

It seems as if Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has fallen out of favour with his Western backers; that he has become a liability rather than an "asset", as...

Campaigning has barely started but the planned Palestinian local elections are already turning into a farce. Intimidation, physical attacks and the detention of candidates in municipalities across the West...

Given that the ongoing Israeli assaults on the sacred mosque are clear breaches of international law, the least that the Western democracies can do is shut down the charities that fund the occupation...

"You cannot issue a perfunctory end of summit declaration saying that you support Palestine, for example, and then embrace the apartheid state of Israel. Nor can you make noises about democratic representation, and then support moves to suppress democratic election results"

At present Israel has diplomatic ties with 11 of the 54 member states of the AU. It has for some time been trying to secure AU observer status along with countries like India, Brazil, Turkey, China and Japan, as well as the EU

Within hours of announcing the normalisation of its relations with Israel, Turkey suffered one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in recent memory. Not for the first time, Istanbul was...

Of all the many massacres committed by Israel and Israelis against the Palestinian people, that which was carried out on 15th Ramadan in February 1994 was unique. Coming as...

When Israel joined the United Nations on 11 May 1949 its membership was conditional on it fulfilling several requirements. Apart from being obliged to abide by the UN Charter,...

The fact is that they all view Israel as an exception; it is seen as a member of their exclusive club.

After rejecting the French proposal for an international peace conference, Benjamin Netanyahu claims that he is now willing to discuss the Arab Peace Initiative. The Israeli prime minister has...

There are at least 20 journalists, including one woman, and media students who are being held in Israeli jails in the legal limbo known as administrative detention.

To the Palestinians, it hardly matters if Israel legislates to adopt capital punishment. It is, after all, a postscript of a practice that has long been in effect

Last month, Palestinian teacher Hanan Al-Hroub was named among the top ten finalists for the 2016 Valley Park Foundation Global Teacher's Prize; it was both a personal as well...

The 12th annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) has been a remarkable success, with more than 250 cities worldwide marking the week of solidarity with the Palestinian people. Although it...

Turkey must hold fast to its demand for Israel to ease the blockade of Gaza Dr Daud Abdullah In recent days, attempts by Israel and Turkey to normalise relations...

Four months have passed and the Quds Intifada shows no sign of coming to an end. None of the repressive measures adopted by the Israeli occupation authorities have proven...

The fact that the two largest Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, are speaking to each other is a welcome development. Put mildly, their relationship has been afflicted by mistrust...

Hot on the heels of the revelation that an Israeli mole has been operating from within the office of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, for the...