Opinion

Over the last few years, Egypt has been home to repeated political turmoil. During the Arab Spring revolution in 2011, long-time military dictator Hosni Mubarak was toppled. Subsequent elections...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs published a fact sheet detailing the ramifications of settler-colonialism in Hebron. 'The Humanitarian Impact of Israeli Settlements in Hebron...

The frequency of talks between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators over the past 20 years has ingrained them in the minds of the people. They invoke negative thoughts associated with...

Isaac Herzog, the Chairman of the Israeli Labour Party, has praised the role played by the Egyptian Minister of Defence, General Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi, in pressuring the Palestinian Islamic...

If you had the chance to notice the graffiti dating back to the first Intifada while walking down a street in Palestine, it would not only evoke the memories...

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has travelled to Israel on an official visit, during which "issues related to bilateral cooperation and the situation in the Middle East" are to...

A published United Nations press release incorporated another bout of concern following Israel's destruction of 30 dwellings in the Jordan Valley which displaced 41 Palestinian civilians, including 24 children....

The international arms trade is impenetrable at best. Deals between different companies and governments are rarely widely reported outside the specialised business press, and the details of such deals...

At Nelson Mandela's memorial service, President Obama criticised world leaders, during his speech, who claim to support Mandela's struggle for freedom, but do not accept their citizen's opposition. Of...

Recent leaks have confirmed that the treacherous coup leader, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, has said that his dreams drove him to carry out the brutal coup against the legitimate elected...

A brief report titled 'Council conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process' published yesterday by the Council of the European Union reaffirmed the ongoing trend of normalising Israel's colonisation...

The question of how to secure peace between Israel and Palestine, and what international powers do to secure it has vexed successive generations of politicians and diplomats. In recent...

UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk has once again elicited criticism over his claim that Israel is harbouring "genocidal" intent. During an interview broadcast on Russia Today, Falk asserted: "When...

When the Tunisian revolution broke out on 18 December, 2010, no one knew that it would be the first spark of other revolutions in several Arab countries. Nor could...

A recent blog in the Times of Israel by Dani Dayan, Chief Foreign Envoy of the YESHA council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria (known to the rest...

Since the bloody coup in Egypt, the country has been in an irrational state; it is all a bit unreal. Everything occurring in Egypt at the moment is farcical:...

Yesterday, a powerful car bomb ripped through a police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Mansoura. At least 14 people were killed and 120 more injured. Reportedly, five senior...

Palestinians and Israelis have met more than twenty times since July 2013 with little progress. Israel security issues dwarfed the final status negotiators while it continued to build, at...

The distortion of Palestinian resistance has escalated in Israeli official rhetoric. During an IAF graduation ceremony, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared the intention "to strike those who threaten...

During the two and a half years of the Syrian war, there has been widespread anxiety in the region about the conflict spilling over into neighbouring countries. Nowhere is...

The United Nations has classed the Syrian refugee crisis as the worst since the Rwandan genocide ten years ago. They have compared it to the aftermath of the war...

The agreement for the two seas Canal connecting the Red and Dead Sea was summed up best by Israeli water minister Silvan Shalom who jubilantly described it following the...

Paraphrasing the famous words of nationalist leader Mustafa Kamil, free and honourable Egyptians have declared, "If I wasn't a Brotherhood member, I would wish to be a Brotherhood member."...

Last week European Union foreign affairs policy chief Catherine Ashton and her family were photographed on their Christmas holidays in Luxor visiting the Valley of the Kings and sailing...

Internationally-renowned Israeli musician Idan Raichel has come out in defence of a former IDF interrogator accused of torture. Doron Zahavi, referred to as "Captain George" until a gag order...

Eliminating chronology and context from the recent Palestinian resistance against Israel's state terror, its ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, urged UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to condemn...

A recent report in the Times of Israel illustrates the emphasis which Israeli officials place upon diplomatic rhetoric, instead of expounding upon the prevailing expansionism associated with the Zionist...

Routine torture in Israeli prisons occasionally makes the news as a reminder of its existence combined with the perpetrators' impunity. The recent outrage over detained Palestinian children exposed to...

Dutch pension fund giant PGGM has withdrawn all its investments from Israel's five largest banks because of their complicity in West Bank settlements. The report in Israeli newspaper Haaretz...

Echoing previous statements regarding Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to recognise the Palestinian right of return, Israeli government officials have declared their refusal of "a symbolic acceptance of the so-called right...

Israel has confirmed plans to start working on a pipeline to export natural gas to Jordan via the Dead Sea, informed Israeli sources told Bloomberg earlier this week. Work...

Even by the standards of The New York Times' news coverage, a recent Jodi Rudoren piece on "incitement" by Palestinians was abysmal. Based on the article's word count, an...