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  • May 4, 2014

    Let them have people’s democracy for a change

    Throughout post-colonial history Arab aspirations for democracy have never been fulfilled. That was because governance was imposed from above. The region’s people have never had ownership of their countries’...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Israel’s PR victory shames news broadcasters

    Our latest analysis of news bulletins reveals how Israel continues to spin images of war The propaganda battle over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached a new level of intensity....

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    An inglorious and shameful retreat by Obama

    No one could have expected that US President Barak Obama’s resistance to the Israeli campaign against him, led by Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, in response to statements he made...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Palestine in the Obama speech

    With a better track record of positive action, Barak Obama could have returned to Cairo to deliver his latest speech on the Middle East. Having failed to deliver on...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Time to replace the memory of expulsion with the reality of return

    This year’s commemoration of the Nakba (catastrophe) is like no other. For the first time in many decades the Palestine issue has truly found its way to the top...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Palestinian reconciliation is the fruit of Egypt’s revolution

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right to say that Palestinian reconciliation is a blow for Israel. However, he was wrong to suggest that it is damaging to the...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Honest people can’t be indifferent to Israeli fascism

    I read with utter contempt the article by Israeli apologist Michael Weiss in which he asked, “Why is Amnesty hosting a Hamas-friendly publisher of racists?”. It deserves a response, not...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Israeli scheming is too late: the horses of freedom have bolted

    First there was the ‘Israeli peace initiative’, and then the media reports that Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was considering withdrawing the Israeli occupation army from the West Bank. Two...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Analysis of the FCO Human Rights Report

    The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has released its annual report on human rights which examines the implementation of human rights and their abuses across the globe. The report...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Mixed messages from Mr Hague

    The balancing act of international diplomacy is never an easy task. It becomes especially difficult for British diplomats when dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict. This is not because the...

    Commentary & Analysis