Opinion

It has been decades since the Israeli leadership has attempted to interfere in American presidential elections in the manner Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attempted in the past...

In an interview with "Fasl Al Maqal", prominent journalist and political activist, Nidal Hamad, who currently resides in Norway, recalls scenes from the massacre during which he was seriously...

An analysis of the experience of the Palestine Liberation Organisation The existence of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is an achievement to be proud of. It expressed the Palestines'...

In recent weeks the Palestinian territories have witnessed a wave of demonstrations by citizens demanding better living conditions. The worsening economic crisis has had a serious impact on the...

Neither I nor anyone I know understands why Egypt has decided to demolish the tunnels connecting Gaza and Northern Sinai; not even the Mubarak regime resorted to this. I...

When Rached Ghannouchi met Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali – before Mr Ghannouchi wisely exiled himself to London as an enemy of the dictatorship – a very odd thing happened....

RAMALLAH-On Saturday morning the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) boarded the Estelle, an activist flotilla delivering aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. The boat was in international waters when it...

Do Israeli citizens really want an end to the Palestine-Israel conflict that has beset the Middle East for so many years? The findings of a poll conducted by Dialog...

LAST August I predicted that as the US election drew closer, and as the President's re-election became certain, a credible scenario would be for Israel to strike Iran, pre-empting...

The past few weeks have witnessed a convergence of several important issues facing post-uprising Egypt: new Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi's opportunism in his attempt to reform the judiciary (as...

Thirty years after it was signed, the Egypt-Israel peace treaty is the focus of attention in strategic debate in Washington, Tel Aviv and Cairo. The renewed interest arises from...

ISRAEL squirms and wriggles like a worm on a fishhook over the Turkish trial into the deaths of nine unarmed humanitarian aid volunteers on board a ship bound for...

Contrary to what Israel might have expected, Hamas's reaction to the latest Israeli escalation in Gaza didn't follow the normal pattern. Thus, Israeli calculations have been confused. Normally, Hamas...

Within the past two weeks, Cairo has received two messages of special significance. The first was from Washington and the other was from Tel Aviv. During his election campaign,...

Out of nowhere, a sister of the late President Yasser Arafat has insisted that no exhumation of his remains should take place. We have never heard of this honourable...

On 15 November, 1988, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) National Council, a body representing all Palestinians, declared an independent Palestinian state. The gesture did not change life for Palestinians...

The revolutions in a number of Arab countries and their effects on a number of strategic issues, at the forefront of which is the Palestinian case, are at the...

The criminal Israeli offensive on Gaza is taking place in the midst of the Israeli general election campaign. There should be no doubt that it is connected to the...

It should come as no surprise that King Abdullah of Jordan has cancelled a proposed visit to Britain during which he was to attend the annual fundraising dinner of...

As the conflict in the Gaza Strip reaches its eighth day, there is no tangible evidence to suggest a truce is imminent. The Israeli military has dropped leaflets over...

Israel's war on Gaza has not stopped since Palestinians exercised their democratic free will and voted for Hamas in the 2006 election. The relentless warfare has alternated between overt...

An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Hamas and Israel finally came into effect on Wednesday night, 21 November. As expected, both sides claimed victory. Gazans streamed elatedly onto the streets to...

The Gaza Ceasefire, unlike a similar ceasefire achieved after Operation Cast Lead four years ago, is an event that has a likely significance far beyond ending the violence after...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to impose a long-term ceasefire on Hamas and the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, one that lasts for fifteen years at least. This is...

Israel's latest aggression against the Gaza Strip was not just a military assault on occupied land which has a geo-strategic link with Egypt, but it also presented a serious...

Like millions of Egyptians, I have received a detailed copy of the new constitutional statement issued by President Mohammed Morsi. I have also received the bundle of decisions issued...

The history books will record November 2012 as the month in which the Palestinian people achieved three major victories which could change the power equations in the region: The...

EGYPTIAN democracy is alive and well. That is about the only positive observation on the current pro-Morsi and counter-demonstrations in major cities across the country. President Mohamed Morsi's pronouncement...

Opposition to something like President Mohamed Morsi's now-controversial constitutional declaration is an inherent right in a democracy. In any free country, authority needs to have a strong opposition, up...

It is impossible to understand the modern Conservative Party without a grasp of the scale and profundity of its links to the state of Israel. The connection dates back...

A DAY after the UN vote to upgrade Palestine's status at the UN, the right-wing Israeli government responded by adding 3,500 illegal Jewish-only homes in the occupied West Bank...

After the victory of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza against the Israeli offensive and the relative success at the United Nations, there is a positive atmosphere with regards to...