Opinion

The Palestinians have been suffering for decades at the hands of one of the most brutal military occupations in the modern world. They are dehumanised on a daily basis,...

Renowned Palestinian activist and religious leader Sheikh Raed Salah was at the UK's Sheldon immigration court in Birmingham this week. His appeal against the government's decision in June to...

Article 1, paragraph 1 of the Charter of the United Nations says that the purpose of the organisation is "to maintain international peace and security". On that level, the...

There has been a cascade of rumours about the shock resignation of Al-Jazeera's Wadah Khanfar. While some point to diplomatic reports of a power struggle between Islamists and secular...

"It is not possible to terminate negotiations without starting them." This precious piece of wisdom was uttered by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with BBC Arabic...

In my travels I have seen how far awareness of the Palestinian issue has spread – in contrast to the misery of my constituents, the Bedouin of the Negev....

While much attention has been paid to Admiral Mike Mullen's allegations that Pakistan's security service, the ISI, was behind recent attacks on American targets in Afghanistan attributed to the...

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague received Tzipi Livni in his office at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office this week. The former Israeli Foreign Minister was welcomed warmly even though...

It is important for us to know what others scheme for our revolutions, and we should not be surprised if they attempt to hijack or abort them. But what...

In early September, illegal Jewish settlers set fire to the ground floor of Al-Nurain Mosque in the occupied West Bank village of Qasra to the south of Nablus. This...

The members of the Al-Barghouthi family are famous for their steadfastness and resistance to Israel's military occupation of their land. They have given martyrs, leaders and prisoners for the...

The Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange deal has forced the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to cross a number of red lines, of which one of great importance is the freeing of...

As a young soldier returns home to assuage the "righteous indignation" of a nation state, no longer "sensitive to its image of democracy", one can only agonise on...

Without doubt, the prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel is a huge achievement for the Palestinians. Ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in 2006 that he would not...

Since the very beginning of the Arab uprisings earlier this year, the leaders of dictatorial governments at the centre of the storms across the region have raised the spectre...

No one can deny that Gaddafi-free Libya has to be a better place in all respects, but a Libya protected by NATO troops and under UN trusteeship is not...

Bashar Al-Assad has given an "exclusive interview" to Britain's Sunday Telegraph, the first with the Western media since the beginning of the revolution in Syria. Ironically, this was shortly...

The failure to uphold Britain's obligations towards universal jurisdiction were demonstrated this week when Tzipi Livni met with Foreign Secretary William Hague in London and managed to avoid arrest...

Events in Tunisia carry several important messages for us. When the results of the Tunisian election came through, many were surprised that the An-Nahda Party had done so well,...

The Israel-Palestine situation demands truth and reconciliation. We hope to aid that process. Opportunities to break seemingly intractable and deadlocked situations are rare – especially on a scale which...

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...