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Known for belatedly spouting known truths, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was true to form in his address to the J Street conference recently, which revealed the extent of...

Unsurprisingly, attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians have increased during the first three months of 2021. UN human rights experts and rapporteurs have documented more than 210 settler...

Israel has opted to reject, rather than defer, the International Criminal Court's investigation into war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories. The decision comes after months of the settler-colonial...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has issued yet another warning about the perilous living conditions of Palestinians in Lebanon's refugee camps. Covid-19 is seen...

US President Joe Biden may be returning the country to the two-state paradigm, but the inequalities between Israelis and Palestinians are becoming more prominent with each statement uttered by...

In another move that shows US President Joe Biden is navigating between the Trump administration's era and the return to the two-state politics, the US State Department's 2020 Country Reports...

The US has reversed one aspect of the Trump administration's foreign policy in Palestine; humanitarian aid will be resumed with a $15 million grant for vulnerable Palestinian communities in...

The impending war crimes investigation by the International Criminal Court has prompted Israel to act diplomatically and otherwise to try and stop it. The Israeli government has ramped up...

Last year, the Palestinian Authority attempted, in the wrong way as usual, to get the international community to act upon Israel's colonial expansion by stating that Israeli Prime Minister...

Israel's successful vaccination campaign and its subsequent positive spell in the international spotlight is a result of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's politicisation of medical matters in the run-up to...

Israel is reportedly concerned that US President Joe Biden will prioritise human rights over traditional allegiances in the Middle East. With a policy shift that departs from the Trump...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is counting upon the diplomatic route against the International Criminal Court's decision to investigate war crimes alleged to have been committed by his country....

Waving olive branches, flags and balloons and dressed in colourful traditional robes, hundreds of residents lined the streets of the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh on Sunday waiting for the...

Short-term funding initiatives for Palestinians provided without addressing Israel's colonialism and military occupation have been proven to be a recipe for long-term failure. They simply do not address the...

European politicians are finally waking up to the issue of Israeli annexation of Palestinian land, acknowledging that the suspension brought about by the US-brokered Abraham Accords are not an...

The US has asked to rejoin the UN Human Rights Council in another move that, superficially at least, spells a departure from the Trump administration's withdrawal from the institution....

The latest report by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process painted a bleak picture for Palestine. Gone are the days when UN representatives attempted to...

With US President Joe Biden's first call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now out of the way, the first inklings of the new administration's diplomacy regarding Palestine and...

The Biden administration is adopting a confusing position regarding Jerusalem, signalling a possible effort to square the circle of taking the US back to the fold of international consensus...

The Palestinian Authority's recent, and unusual, response to the EU's statement condemning Israel's latest settlement expansion would have been welcomed if it came from a consistent political position. In...

At the rate that it is failing the people of Palestine, the Palestinian Authority will only stop jeopardising their cause when it is declared to be completely obsolete, more...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proud of the fact that he was one of the first people called by Donald Trump when he entered the White House four...

With each diplomatic attempt by the international community to save the two-state compromise, Palestinians are guaranteed further loss of territory with every compromise that they are forced to make....

When news of the "Abraham Accords" broke last year, Israel's impending annexation of the occupied West Bank was sidelined. The new diplomatic opportunities in line with what the international...

US President Joe Biden announced the restoring of diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority and the resumption of humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people, in a bid to bring the country...

"An unprecedented place," is how Israel Hayom described the Trump administration's scheming with Israel against the Palestinian people, during an interview with outgoing US Ambassador David Friedman. Unprecedented, that...

On 22 December, the Knesset — Israel's parliament — dissolved itself after failing pass a state budget, triggering yet another General Election. The country has been in political chaos...

The Palestinian legislative and presidential elections are set to be held in May and July respectively, and the Palestinian Authority is following US President Joe Biden's diplomatic path meticulously....

The UN has mastered the art of dissociating itself from colonisation, especially that which it has supported through international consensus. Former UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace...

"Shocking scenes of violence" was how the Jewish Insider described last week's storming of the Capitol Building in Washington DC by supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump. It...

In what reads like a tentative attempt to bring the US back on track when it comes to international diplomacy, the US Foreign Affairs Committee representative, Gregory Meeks, has...

After returning to security coordination with Israel just days after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the US presidential election, the Palestinian Authority wasted no time in reassuring...