Opinion

Over the past few years Iran has been the subject of intense international scrutiny. High ranking Israeli and US officials backed by their respective media packs have led the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu took to the seas in search of a new ally in the Mediterranean this week; his anchor's final resting place was Greece. In his...

By Lauren BoothThis morning I set out to write a piece about the looting of the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza by your soldiers. As you may have read, an...

By Greta Berlin Two years ago today, forty-four people from seventeen countries set sail on the Mediterranean heading towards Gaza. We were on two dilapidated fishing boats, the seas...

By Abdel Bari Atwan Since his inauguration as president of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, Mahmoud Abbas has backed-down repeatedly from a number of demands, destroying his credibility, and...

By Omar Radwan Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that any Palestinian state that is created at the end of peace negotiations must be demilitarized and must recognize...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban The noise made by the publication of photos on Facebook by Israeli soldier, Abergil Eden, showing off her being a jailer of handcuffed and blindfolded...

Israel's shameless mouthpieceIn yet another revealing speech, this time delivered at a symposium at IDC University in Herzliya, Tony Blair has exposed himself for what he truly is; not...

By Khalid Amayreh in Dura, southern West Bank Heavily-armed Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces on Friday, 26 August, stormed the southern West Bank town of Dura, in the Hebron district,...

In stable democratic states there are laws that protect historic sites against confiscation or destruction. Governments allocate funds from state budgets for their maintenance. However, in Israel such normal...

62 days ago (1st July 2010) three elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council walked into the International Red Cross headquarters in Jerusalem and they have not left since....

By Omar Radwan Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Spiritual Leader of Shas, an Israeli Sephardic ultra-Orthodox party, delivered a sermon at the weekend in which he prayed for the death...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban Those who try to make the word 'terrorism' a synonym of the word 'Islam' try to brainwash us these days by the phrase "I am...

This is the most recent interview with Khaled Mesh'al who, since 1996, has been the Chairman of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Political Bureau. After the assassination of Hamas...

By Dr. Abdel Sattar Qassem  It was not anticipated that the 'autonomy' which emanated from the Oslo Accord would spread Islam, support it or make quantum leaps in endorsing Islam's...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit hinted recently that Palestinian refugees would receive $50 billion dollars as a compensation for giving up the right...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban On August 29, 2010, Martin Indyk wrote an op-ed in The New York Times entitled "For once, hope in the Middle East".  When I read...

Munir's Story By Franklin Lamb Shatila Palestinian Refuge Camp, Beirut. The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied....

By Angelina Harutyunyan The protracted peace process between Israel and the Palestinians has made both parties and the international community sceptical about its chances of success. Although the two...

With every day that passes Israel further establishes itself as one of the world's leading violators of human rights. To its British and American allies this may be seen...

By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah The European Union (EU) is considered the main donor and bankroller of the Palestinian Authority (PA), an entity that more or less lives off...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban On the International Day of Democracy, satellite TV channels focused on the type of democracy imported, together with blood baths, disasters, wars and American invasions...

When the name of Rachel Corrie is mentioned you cannot help but pause for a painful moment; a tugging at the heart is the best way to describe it....

By Abdel Sattar Qassem The anchor at the TV station was surprised when I told him that the Palestinian Authority supported settlement activity and that I do not care...

IntroductionIsrael has been condemned, yet again, by the United Nations for serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws. A UN report released last week has confirmed that...

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban Warning from the Obama administration's submission to Israeli pressure, in an interview with the Lebanese OTV, Michael Scheuer, a 'former' senior CIA officer, said: "Three hundred...

This quote from an international aid worker in Jerusalem prefaces a new briefing paper from Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre. Written by Dr. Jason Hart and Claudia Lo Forte,...

Dr Bouthaina Shaaban The United Nations Human Rights Council last week adopted a resolution condemning Israel for its attack on the aid flotilla on May 31.  The report said...

By Yvonne Ridley How many of you remember Monty Python's dead parrot sketch? It was a wonderful comedic routine that transcended nationality and culture. Timeless in its appeal, it...

Beyond the Failed "Peace Process" By Alain Gresh Renewed Arab/Israeli negotiations, opened under the auspices of President Barack Obama in September, are undermined not just by settlement building but...

When I was being held in Israel in 2007 and undergoing a 12-hour interrogation session I remember my interrogator saying to me as he shrugged his shoulders 'International Law?...

Reports that the headquarters of the Palestinian Journalists Union in Gaza have been shut down by Hamas security forces should concern everyone with an interest in hearing the truth...