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A leaked report commissioned by the European Union (EU) has concluded that Israeli settlement construction "remains the single biggest threat" to peace in the Middle East. The confidential, 15-page report...

Israel imposes two parallel legal systems across the occupied West Bank. Illegal Jewish settlers who commit a crime face the mainstream Israeli courts, with in-built legal rights and safeguards....

The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, knows very well that when he described Zionism before the UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum held in Vienna late last February as...

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is North America's most vociferous pro-Israel lobby group. This week Alan Mendoza of Britain's Henry Jackson Society offered an interesting glimpse into...

The French Minister of Interior, Manuel Valls, faced sharp and well-deserved criticism following statements he made in the wake of the assassination of opposition politician, Chokri Belaid, last month....

Questions are being raised about the involvement of Israeli doctors in the suspected torture of a young Palestinian detainee who died in custody last month. Sharmila Devi reports. The...

Despite their ferocity, last Friday's clashes in the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa failed to make international headlines. The virtual news black-out was indicative of prevailing attitudes towards Jerusalem as...

In just a few weeks, Israel plans on extracting gas from the "Tamar" and "Leviathan" gas fields, which were discovered dozens of kilometers into the waters northwest of Haifa. ...

By Zuhair Andraos Yesterday, Israeli reports revealed that the Israel's foreign intelligence agency, Mossad, was able to plant bugs in Mahmoud Abbas's (Abu Mazen) office in 1993 while he...

Three years ago this month, I wrote a piece entitled "Who's to Blame for the Iraq War?" to mark the seventh anniversary of the US invasion. My sole purpose...

May 2012 sees Israel entering the sixty-fifth year since it was established on the ruins of historic Palestine. Those years have been a colonial journey unprecedented in history. Israel...

The Judaisation of Jerusalem has occupied a prominent place in the Arab and Muslim media recently, and is the focus of many statements made by officials and heads of...

The question of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was raised after the Eilat incident and its aftermath when six Egyptian border police were killed by Israel. In...

In response to the threat made to him by the Turkish foreign minister that he is about to face the same fate of Saddam Hussein or Qaddafi, Syria's President...

The recent reference by the United Nations Educational, Science and Culture Organisation (UNESCO) to the occupied city of Jerusalem as the "capital of Israel" was both surprising and contrary...

The clampdown on Hamas continues: despite some clear sky here and there, the demands are the same; recognition of Israel as a Jewish state in exchange for recognition of...

If we want to know why the British government decided to arrest Sheikh Raed Salah, we need to look at his pivotal role in the Islamic Movement inside Israel...

If political wisdom does not prevail, if no crucial decisions are taken in which ALL Palestinians are represented, and if we do not learn from the mistakes of the...

The Palestinian reconciliation agreement has brought the issue of European recognition of Hamas and its political role back to the fore. Given that Hamas is such a decisive force...

The Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, has been the focus of much Arab media interest in the wake of the historic reconciliation agreement between Fatah and...

After forty years of absolute rule during which he spent billions of dollars to boost his image in the world, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi finds himself without friends. Despite...

On Wednesday (02.03.2011), the President of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr Aziz Dweik, along with a number of other PLC deputies, met with a visiting Russian delegation which included...

The people's revolution in Egypt cast its shadow as far as the eleventh Herzliya Conference in Israel. Opened by Israeli President Shimon Peres on the 7 February, the conference...

The issue is not that documents giving details of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority were leaked by Al Jazeera and the Guardian. We all had a general...

The deputy leader of Hamas's political bureau, Dr Mousa Abu Marzouk, has claimed that the Palestinians living in the Occupied West Bank "will not be patient for long with...

Since it was first mooted about eight years ago that the son of Hosni Mubarak was being groomed to take his place as president of Egypt, the Director of...

It is fairly obvious that Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is messing around with US President Barack Obama, when on the one hand he declares that he is interested...

By Dr. Abdel Sattar QassemThe Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967 have suffered from an odd economic situation ever since, in stages summarised as follows: 1. The Israeli occupation authorities adopted...

By Abdel Bari Atwan At a time when Israeli intelligence is accused of breaking Egyptian security through spy networks and the involvement of its agents in fuelling sectarian strife...

The Palestinian leadership has begun to speak about this coming September as the month of the three appointments or deadlines; for the end of the year of negotiations approved...

By Dr. Mohsen Mohammed SalehIs real reform of the Palestinian Authority possible or can reform only ever be a matter of "dancing to the Israeli occupation's tune"? Can the...

Just one week separates two recent statements by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, each of which contradicts the other. He hinted in his first statement to a "conditional acceptance" of...