The Israeli parliament (the Knesset) has passed a law to restore to its original owners confiscated land which is not being used for the purpose for which it was...

In an attempt to justify her country’s determination to tighten international sanctions against Iran, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has constructed a scenario wild enough to make reasonable...

By Mohammed Watad The drive to empty the state of Israel of its non-Jewish population began in the run-up to the declaration of independence in May 1948. The Palestinians...

Dr. Ahmed Bahr, the Palestinian Legislative Council’s Deputy Chairman has stressed that the criminal occupation which contributed to the flooding of the Mughraqa area will not go unnoticed adding...

The Qatari writer and academic, Dr. Muhammad Al-Masfar, has expressed his hope that Arab and international efforts which seek to heal the rift in Hamas’ relations with the international...

How do we stop the creeping growth of Israeli settlements? How do we put the freeze on settlements in their various manifestations at the top of the agenda for...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad this week met with Barack Obama’s special envoy to the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP), ex-Senator George Mitchell. On the table for discussion were Syrian-US...

By Abdel Bari Atwan The British government is currently working on the introduction of new legislation that will take away from the British judiciary system its power to issue...

By Abdel Bari AtwanThe Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, continues to take an honourable and dignified stance against Israeli arrogance, and exposes the continuing war crimes against the...

The steel wall that the Egyptian government is building along its border with the Gaza Strip will cut off the last remaining link between what is left of historic...

Looking back at the year since Israel’s assault on Gaza it is clear that despite everything, and against all the odds, the resistance of the Palestinians can be viewed...

Have you noticed how Washington has quietly stopped trying to “freeze settlement activities” – a Palestinian precondition for the resumption of peace negotiations – after the Obama administration found...

By Dr Hamdi Hassan Decisions coming out of the Egyptian Government over the past week or so have illustrated perfectly the lack of rationality and consistency therein. Egypt’s national...

By Sadiq Al-Mahdi The Jewish issue is a European product, anti-Semitism is a European phenomenon and Zionism is a European Jewish reaction against the persecution of the Jews at...

Comment by Fahmi Huwaidi 14/12/2009 The news hit me like a sledgehammer. I still do not want to believe that Egypt has decided to build an underground wall of...

Our brothers in Egypt have the right to dig trenches as they want, build walls as they like, and stick in the ground, to whatever depth they want, reinforced...

Wadi’ Awawdah: Nazareth. The Former PA minister of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) affairs and current PLO/Fatah representative on Al-Quds Hatim Abdul-Qadir has stated that the PA ‘is not a god and...

By Ilyas KhuriIt seems today as if there is no solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The so-called peace process has been in a state of clinical death since the...

When Washington pronounced that “making progress in the peace process and the establishment of two states for two the peoples” is a paramount American interest, most of Europe and...

There is a prevailing feeling that the Palestinian cause is going through a period of tremendous confusion and loss of direction. The desperate internal division between the West Bank...

What is going on in the White House? By Bilal Alhassan A year ago US President Barack Obama outlined a clear and straightforward policy through which he wanted to improve...

We assume that the Obama administration is committed to the peace process and the “two states for two peoples” solution. We have no doubt on this proposition, particularly when...

Abdus-Sattar QasimProfessor of Political studies, Al Najah National University,Some people will hate reading this article, either because it will expose them and their agents, or because it will shake...

Nawaf al-Zrou22/7/2009 There is obvious and substantial evidence that Israel has recently launched successive, deliberate and systematic campaigns against Palestine, Palestinians and the Palestine Question in its entirety in...

The recent hijacking of the Russian ship in the Baltic Sea heading for Algeria caused a great media stir. No sooner had the media furore subsided a blackout of...

August’s bloody clashes between the security forces of the Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip and the group that identify themselves as Jund Ansar Allah constitutes a remarkable development...

Whenever a Turkish official makes a diplomatic gesture in the Arab-Islamic region, the media goes on analyzing it and starts speculating about the expected Turkish role in the settlement...

Since his election to the US presidency, Barak Obama has raised a number of questions about his political agenda in general and in particular, his policies with regard to...

Fatah: from an era of trenches to an era of hotelsHebron’s citizens: Dayton lays the foundation for a Palestinian civil war Residents of the city of Hebron have been...

Contrary to assertions by some human rights organizations that the Hamas government would not cooperate with the Goldstone report, a senior official in the government gave a press conference...

FAILING to agree on ways to reduce the deficit, the US president was forced earlier this month to enact the Budget Control Act (BCA) into law. The debt ceiling...

It is expected widely that the current outbreak of popular unrest and protests across the occupied West Bank will become a third intifada, with a new shape and activities....