The Israeli-Occupied hearing on alleged Iranian terror In the wake of the much-heralded FBI sting that supposedly foiled a dastardly plot by Iran's Revolutionary Guard elite Qods Force –...

Israel wants to punish the Palestinians because they obtained full membership of UNESCO; the United States wants to punish UNESCO because it granted Palestine full membership. In the presence...

Surely the New York Times would not dare turn down a piece from the new Richard Goldstone. He had already recast himself as the self-appointed guardian of Israel's world...

It is believed widely in Egypt that US aid to the country is a sign of Egyptian weakness, but the Americans see it differently. If Egypt wasn't important strategically,...

Israel's Knesset (parliament) is set to discuss a number of bills in its winter session which Palestinians regard as racist, continuing a policy of "unprecedented racist legislation in 1948...

One of the dilemmas of Egyptian politics is that the feuding parties are acting as guardians and not partners, even though no one has given them a mandate to...

Dennis Ross has finally left the building. Since the Carter administration, Ross has played a crucial role in crafting Middle East policies that have prolonged and exacerbated the more...

As the Tunisian Constituent Assembly holds its first meeting to start the process of handing over authority to the civilian revolutionary forces, the people of Tunisia can claim success...

The pro-Israel NGO behind NATO's war on Libya is targeting Syria On December 2, the Geneva-based UN Watch welcomed that day's "strong condemnation" of Syria by a UN Human...

After eighteen years of negotiations and conceding more than 80 per cent of historic Palestine, and signing the Oslo agreement (which added to the legitimacy of Israel and broke...

Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common With Hamas and Fatah meeting this week in Cairo, reconciliation between the rival Palestinian political parties is likely only a...

In gaining the majority of votes in the Moroccan election, the Justice and Development Party has put the West on alert, as well as some of the more conservative...

It is sad that Egypt's first post-Mubarak elections – in which millions of Egyptians have cast their votes, reportedly with a 70% turnout – are being held under the...

The meeting in Cairo between Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshaal can be best described as "an important step in the right direction", not least because reconciliation between Fatah and...

I felt very uneasy when Britain's ambassador to Iran claimed that the attack on the British Embassy in Tehran was state-supported. What does Dominick Chilcott not understand about people...

Al Jazeera is an enigma – although owned by an absolute monarch, it's hailed as an independent voice in a region scarred by tyranny. Mehdi Hasan visits its headquarters...

As Republicans seeking the party's nomination for the next US presidential election fall over themselves to prove how Israel-friendly they are to "Republican Jewish leaders", the country closest to...

Israel is no longer "the only democracy" in the political desert of the Middle East; indeed, it never was. Any country which maintains a military occupation, builds illegal colonies...

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has just celebrated its 24th anniversary in an unusually turbulent political climate in Palestine and the Arab world. Changes in the international arena include...

The new mantra against Islamist politicians is that they can succeed in opposition but fail in government; experience of holding the reins of power will, it is alleged, reveal...

Israel's response to the political developments in the Arab world revolves around security. An increase in its military budget has been accompanied by substantial amendments to the country's security...

Mainstream media only ever addresses Israeli racism indirectly, if at all. An issue that has received less than its fair share of media coverage is the document prepared by...

They can take away our land; they can take away our rights; they can even take away our right to live; but we are Palestinians, and with God's help,...

A strange affliction seems to be affecting settlers in the West Bank. It seems that as soon as they are granted settler status (a badge of dishonour in the...

The Israeli Supreme Court has rejected petitions submitted by human rights organisations seeking a cancellation of the amendments to the Citizenship Act which will prevent the reunification of Palestinian...

OVER the past 64 years, Palestinians have tried armed struggle; we have tried negotiations; and we have tried peace conferences. Yet all we have seen is more Israeli settlements,...

Israel has finally done what it has waited almost a year and a half to do; in a raid contravening international law it arrested two members of the Palestinian...

Hamas is a movement of institutions, with committees, laws and regulations which determine the status of each member. It is important to remember that before going into specifics about...

Ahmed Kahlaoui, leader of Tunisia's National Committee to Support Arab Resistance to Normalization, has appealed for the awaited Tunisian constitution to include an article outlawing the normalization of relations...

Violence, abuse, non-accountability, hate, such is communal living today within the occupied West Bank, where some 518,974 colonisers1 sit within "200"2 illegal settlements. Noam Chomsky, "The settlements cover over...

There are no Palestine-Israel negotiations being held at the moment because Israeli preconditions kill them before they begin. The Palestinian side doesn't have any alternative to offer instead of...

It has been twelve years since Morocco became a signatory to the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world's first permanent international court...