By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine For many years, I have been  arguing rather constantly  that Israel is a decidedly terrorist state that differs little in character from other...

By Abdel Bari Atwan We thank God that the Freedom Flotilla set sail from the ports of Turkey; we praise Him more that one of them, Mavi Marmara, was...

By Yvonne Ridley The full extent of the atrocities carried out by Israeli commandos on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla is beginning to emerge as the survivors return home...

By Roger Higginson IssueThe time has come for a re-appraisal of UK policy towards Israel, 19 years after the Middle East Peace Process started in Madrid. On 16 March...

In the wake of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, the international community called for the siege of Gaza to be lifted. US President Obama called it “unsustainable”...

By Omar Radwan Following the Israeli raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which resulted in the murder of at least nine civilian activists (some are, apparently, still unaccounted for)...

By Seyfeddin Kara The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), one of the most prestigious economic clubs in the world, was founded in 1961. It currently has 31...

By Ramzy Baroud “Even despots, gangsters and pirates have specific sensitiveness, (and) follow some specific morals.” The claim was made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a...

Something is going very wrong in Jerusalem. Israel’s warped sense of immutable ownership and unchallengeable control over Palestinian lives has given way to a rampant series of acts that...

Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada, 22 June 2010 A document sent to Ibrahim Khraishi, Palestinian Authority representative at the UN in Geneva, proves that the PA attempted to undermine...

By Omar Radwan Following Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla at the end of last month, the siege of Gaza has come under the spotlight. In Europe and the United...

News analysis by Khalid Amayreh in East Jerusalem The recent decision by the Israeli government to banish four Palestinian lawmakers from Jerusalem to areas in the West Bank run...

By Abdel Bari Atwan President Mahmoud Abbas has stressed, in all his press interviews, that he will not go into direct negotiations with the Israelis unless there is tangible...

Israel, we are told frequently, is “the only democracy in the Middle East”. This is the “Get out of Jail” card used against critics whenever the argument is swinging...

By Dr Mohsen Saleh The past few months have provided an opportunity to review the ideology of the late scholar Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, who died recently in Lebanon, and...

By Omar Radwan Yesterday, an Israeli military inquiry committee published a report about Israel’s raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. While criticising “mistakes” made by the Israeli navy, such...

By Ma’an Bashur If the veteran American journalist Helen Thomas had called for the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, as she called for the Israeli withdrawal...

By Dr. Salman Abu Sitta The deteriorating situation of the Palestinian cause is no secret to anyone, including Palestinians themselves and the Arab world. There is, therefore, an urgent...

By Dr Bassem Naeem The European Union’s foreign policy chief has visited Gaza for the second time. Cathy Ashton’s visit on 18 July came several months after her first...

By Dr Salman Abu Sitta What is the position of neighbouring Arab countries on all this? In 1948, some Arab states went into Palestine after Britain’s departure under pressure...

By Ahmad Tibi In today’s Israel, advocating equal rights for all can prove fatal, writes Ahmad Tibi* In the 11 years that I have served in Israel’s Knesset I...

By Uri Avnery WHEN I was first elected to the Knesset, I was appalled at what I found. I discovered that, with rare exceptions, the intellectual level of the...

By Dr. Eyad Sarraj We do not need a great deal of intelligence, access to classified information, round or square theories to be able to put events into perspective...

By Zuhair Andraos With complete disregard for international law, Israel continues to impose new facts on the ground; the latest instance being the approval by the Knesset committee of...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem Outgoing British ambassador to Israel, Tom Phillips, has been quoted as saying that the British public is drifting away from Israel due to...

By Abdel Sattar Qassem It is easy to believe that the people of Palestine face just one war, that which is related to the occupation of the West Bank...

I popped over to Gaza last weekend to see how things are, only it wasn’t that simple. Nobody can just “pop over” to Gaza these days; it requires a...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban Our peoples in the region have become target for war mongers who spread pain, destruction, blockade and bloodshed. We have become the west’s guinea pigs for...

As Russia prepares to deliver fuel for Iran’s nuclear reactors, it is worth casting a reviewer’s eye over the potential for further conflict in the Middle East. In one...

By Khalid Amayreh, Occupied Jerusalem It is one of the paradoxes of Israel that the Jewish state has a lot of support amongst right-wing and fascist groups in the...

In a news item reminiscent of the shocking and disturbing photos that came out of Iraq’s notorious Abu-Ghraib prison a few years ago, now ex-IDF soldier Eden Aberjil has...

By Omar Radwan The Israeli government has announced that it will refuse any invitation to start direct negotiations with the Palestinians issued by the diplomatic Quartet responsible for mediating...