- As an event, Land Day has been and gone. However, as one of Palestine and its people, and as a symbol of existence loaded with significance and lessons to...
- New "peace-making" winds are blowing on Arab-Turkish relations and helping to ease the tension in the search for common ground. Flattering messages are being exchanged between Ankara, Cairo, and...
- The 2006 Palestinian legislative elections witnessed the phenomenon of spiteful voting, where those angry with Fatah and its ruling, and those who were disgruntled with the corruption of the...
- On the eve of the legislative elections, the internal Palestinian situation resembles moving sand dunes; as soon as one of them settles, it is blown by the winds of...
- Fatah's internal divisions are overshadowing and diverting attention away from the rift with Hamas. News, leaks and analyses address the Fatah divisions, while the Fatah-Hamas split receives less attention....
- From the outside, the heated debate between Tehran and Washington seems as though it could be summarised by the question: Which side will make the first move? Tehran wants...
- Israel has been talking about Syrian messages, indicating Damascus's desire to normalise relations with it. Meanwhile, Syrian sources from Ankara spoke about a meeting sponsored by Moscow at Khmeimim...
- The fourth meeting of the "Munich Quartet" — Germany, Jordan, Egypt and France — ended in Cairo this week. It was mainly concerned with the Palestinian issue. The fifth...
- Just one drop will be enough for the cup of tension between the US and Iran in Iraq and the Gulf to overflow. Everyone's fingers are on the trigger...
- We have witnessed increased speculation that the Palestinian elections (mainly for the legislative council) are likely to take place within the next few months. With this speculation we are...
- Neither Turkey nor Greece wants to slide into a comprehensive conflict with the other in the eastern Mediterranean. Turkey has been pushing the confrontation to the edge of the...
- We are only ten weeks away from one of the most dangerous and important American presidential elections. The capitals are undoubtedly waiting to see the "white smoke" rising from...
- Tunisians are preparing to welcome the tenth prime minister of their second republic. The average length of post-revolution governments in Tunisia is no more than the historical average of...
- Yesterday, Palestine's Wafa news agency and Turkey's Anadolu published two separate articles about the phone call between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In...
- Public opinion polls in Israel and the US no longer carry good news for either Trump or Netanyahu. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, both men thought that they were...
- Political and media circles in Iraq and beyond have been disturbed by the vile attack that claimed the life of Hisham Al-Hashimi, a researcher into terrorist groups and armed...
- What are the "doves" in Israel's ruling right-wing coalition proposing to the Palestinians? An offer from Benny Gantz and Gabi Ashkenazi of the Blue and White party has been...
- Israel should be worried as it watches the global uprising against racism and racial discrimination. It should fear for its future as it sees symbols of slavery, racism and...
- The presenter on Palestine's Ajyal Radio asked me: "What are Israel's options for dealing with the President Mahmoud Abbas' convoy? Will it be intercepted when it heads for Jordan or will...
- Border skirmishes between Sudan and Ethiopia are nothing new; they date back decades and are frequent. The causes are both countries' failure to "demarcate" their borders, tribal and demographic...
- Fully-loaded Iranian oil tankers roam the oceans of the world and pass through strategic straits and waterways heading for two main destinations: Venezuela and China. In doing so, they...
- In the aftermath of the Palestinian Authority's decision to "split" from the agreements reached with Israel, a large number of Israeli political analysts have presented their thoughts. What are...
- This article may seem like a total prediction, or perhaps an attempt to read some significant meanings into small events. It is, however, worth taking the risk of analysing...
- Nothing seems able to bring an end to Lebanon's social divisions; neither financial nor economic collapse, not the coronavirus pandemic, and not even the enemy lurking at the border....
- To the public, the resignation of Suleyman Soylu appears to be related to his shortcomings in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but to those digging deeper, the resignation...
- What was going on in the minds of Sudanese leader General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when they went under the cover of darkness to...
- The expressions of joy, cries of victory and the show put on by Benjamin Netanyahu at the publicity ceremony for the deal of the century do not actually reflect...
- Away from the "clanking of weapons" and the noise of threats and intimidation, the time has come for the Iranian leadership to reconsider its regional policies, and as a...
- Since the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, Tehran has revealed that 22 attempts in the form of messages, contacts and offers have been made by Washington to contain the Iranian...
- When the Senior Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, announced the intention to open an investigation into possible war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Trump...
- The uprisings in Iraq and Lebanon raise a number issues, among them the problem of the relationship between men of religion and men of politics. Even though this is...
- By publicly endorsing the decision of President Hassan Rouhani's government to ration petrol and raise the price at the pumps, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has blocked any possibility...