For centuries, the Middle East has cast a long and dark shadow over the legacy of many a statesman wanting to leave his mark on history. Unlike Europeans, the...

Israel announced yesterday morning a military and engineering operation, which it dubbed “Operation Northern Shield”, aimed at destroying what it alleges are offensive tunnels belonging to the Lebanese resistance...

The US Senate sent a strong message to the Trump administration on Wednesday by supporting a bill that would force Washington to cut its support for the Saudi-led coalition...

The widespread rejection of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman’s visit to their countries by some Arab political and cultural elites indicates the great damage done to the...

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) announced suddenly on Tuesday morning the start of a massive military operation along the border with Lebanon. The reason, said the IDF, is to...

As historians say, coincidence plays an important role in history and this coincidence may change the course of history, or put someone in a place that is not theirs...

It seems that the latest weapon in the hands of the American forces that are pressing US President Donald Trump to take a position in line with American values...

World leaders heading home after the weekend G20 might be justified in breathing brief sighs of relief. Unlike at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit two weeks ago, the...

We do not need to be very smart to realise that the main reason behind the Saudi Crown Prince’s visits aboard, since the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, is...

I believe that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is a murderer. I will not call him an alleged murder, say he is suspected of being involved in murder...

Watching the ongoing debate between liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding chaotic situation in Central...

As has been elucidated by many people – including my colleague Ben White in one of his excellent books, and myself in this column – Israel is an apartheid...

November was an extraordinary month for normalisation between Arab states and Israel. You would think that Israel had settled its disputes with its neighbours — perhaps accepting and implementing...

In November, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement won its latest of many such victories against Israeli occupation and racism. After a sustained three-year BDS campaign, the popular...

Rating 4/5 Why do people who are normally good commit acts of evil? A great many have been bedevilled by the question but the answer is as elusive as...

The Afula council’s consensus to prevent Arabs from living in the city has created a racist environment in which all of the council members took an oath to preserve...

One of the tactics that Israel uses to launder its image around the world could be termed “aidwashing” or perhaps “bluewashing”, after the blue used by the UN in...

Last week, as the plane carrying 19-year-old Muhammed AbdelKasem and his friend descended into Borg El Arab Airport in Alexandria, Muhammed took out his phone, leaned towards the window...

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Khalid al-Falih, must play a bad hand of cards as well as he can at next week’s meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers in...

Normalisation with the state of Israel and a “regional solution” to the Palestinian issue appear to be back on the agenda. What is such a solution? The “regional solution”...

Supporting Palestine isn’t just about heroic resistance with little more than sticks and stones in the face of one of the most technologically-advanced armies in the world. Nor is...

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his army to carry out a limited operation in the besieged Gaza Strip on 12 November, he certainly did not anticipate that...

Despite powerful and globally coordinated Israeli attacks against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, BDS is not simply surviving; it is thriving. That is the conclusion of a new...

The Palermo conference on Libya went ahead as scheduled — 12/13 November — with all of the local protagonists present, along with many regional and international players. Italy finally...

In the field of medicine, we often speak of the social determinants of health. In Palestine, not only social, but political determinants of health have a grave impact on...

From Khartoum, where the Arab summit in late August 1967 announced its Three No’s: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with it, a leader...

As pressure grows for a ceasefire in Yemen it seems likely that there will be some form of de-escalation soon, if not a full-fledged ceasefire. Indeed, a modest de-escalation...

This week, two protests by refugees at international borders made major headlines in the news. One group was treated with overwhelming sympathy from politicians and the news media, while...

Is Israel a nuclear power? In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli former nuclear technician, revealed to the British media details of Israel’s nuclear power programme and was eventually jailed...

The relationship between Hamas and Iran has been the subject of widespread controversy for years both within the movement and among the Palestinian people. This controversy has increased in recent years,...

Modern Sudanese politics is characterised by a fair amount of ambiguity and secrecy. It is also distinguished by its unexpected boldness in critical moments. Given the limited number of...

Saudi Arabia’s newspapers and television channels did not comment on the remarks made recently by US President Donald Trump, in which he praised the Kingdom’s role in protecting Israel’s...