Israel

Nick Clegg's condemnation of Israel's settlements as "an act of deliberate vandalism" was the understatement of the week, but it still managed to provoke the wrath of the Israeli...

The bad news from Israel keeps coming thick and fast. If the report by European embassies in Tel Aviv on Israel's discrimination against Palestinian Arabs was bad, then surely...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has stressed in discussions on the sidelines of reconciliation talks in Cairo that he refuses to let the Palestinian Authority become a security apparatus protecting...

Throughout 2011, as in previous years, the British political class remained pitifully indifferent to the tragedy of Bethlehem. When the Archbishop of Canterbury moved a debate in the House...

There's a real sense in which, more than any other part of the former colonial world, the Middle East has never been fully decolonised. Sitting on top of the...

The late Palestinian scholar Edward Said pointed out famously that "Israel is unique in the world for the excuses made on its behalf". These excuses have become more prevalent...

The Palestinian Authority's failure to get the required support in the Security Council for admission to the UN is not surprising. The perfidious US veto was always going to...

A media frenzy followed the publication of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's description of Benjamin Netanyahu as "a liar" during a private discussion with US President Barack Obama. The exchange...

The fierce attack by Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is reminiscent of the assault (in every sense) launched by Ariel Sharon against the late...

The immigration tribunal ruling against Raed Salah is a classic example of what happens when judges follow politicians instead of the law. Contradictions and double-speak abound as they drag...

He may be the only foreign leader to humiliate a serving American president publicly and still receive standing ovations in Congress; he may continue to defy international calls for...

Nine months ago, when al-Jazeera and the Guardian jointly published the Palestine papers, revealing the scale of concessions secretly made by Palestinian negotiators in a decade of talks with...

It was a week like no other, one which the proud guardians of British justice will probably wish to forget. Three high-profile events confirmed the existence of a malaise...

Al Quds al Arabi It was with a sigh of relief that we watched Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announce that he is going to the UN Security Council to...

The Egyptian Prime Minister caused surprise with his remarks which described the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, the Camp David Accords, as not being sacred and thus being subject to alteration....

In his speech before the U.S. Congress last May, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posed a serious challenge to the Palestinian Authority: If the PA would just say, "We recognize...

At long last WikiLeaks documents have focused on something other than the defunct "peace process" and Israel's war against Hamas. The latest release of diplomatic cables highlights Israeli concerns...

Rejoice! On 20 September, the United Nations will welcome a new member: the "State of Palestine". Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) officials believe they have secured the support of enough...

Britain's Minister of International Development, Alan Duncan, has been in the firing line of the Jewish Chronicle. His only apparent crime is that he stated the obvious, daring to...

Israel has always been portrayed as an oasis of democracy in a sea of Arab dictatorship, so the timing of the country's protest movement is particularly embarrassing for its...

It was not surprising to see Israeli officials expressing great sympathy for ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as they objected to him being put on trial, not least because...

There is an Arabic word you come across a lot when Palestinians talk about their future. Sumud means steadfastness, and it has turned into a strategy: when the imbalance...

One week after the horrific massacre in Norway two parallel debates have opened up. Inevitably, one is dominated by security concerns. The other equally important discussion examines the role...

Let's just suppose that it was a Palestinian state holding 1.5 million Israeli Jews under siege to the point that their health sector was on the verge of collapsing,...

Last week's swift getaway from Britain by Major-General Danny Rothschild has left a trail in its wake leading to key assets of the pro-Israel Lobby, Just Journalism and its...

Hacking the mobile phones of British families who had lost loved ones to sexually depraved violent criminals, al-Qaeda inspired "terrorists" and Taliban insurgents proved the tipping point that led...

Jonathan Cook is The National's correspondent in Nazareth, Israel. He won this year's Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism He is an Islamic "preacher of hate" whose views reflect...

Using the clumsiest of methods, Britain has sleepwalked into a high-profile political imbroglio in its relations with the Palestinian people and the Arab world. At the centre of this...

Palestinian activist Sheikh Raed Salah was barred from the UK due to unfair allegations from neo-conservatives. Writing in the Guardian newspaper Hanan Zoabi, a member of the Knesset, where she...

In arresting Sheikh Raed Salah, the UK authorities support the persecution of Arab citizens of Israel The decision to ban the Palestinian leader Sheikh Raed Salah from entering Britain,...

The impartial observer of the Arab and Palestinian scene cannot fail to notice the unfortunate and unjustifiable absence of an Arab political stance while Israel's Judaisation programme continues apace...

The decision by London's Queen Mary University to pull the plug on an event hosted by the Middle East Monitor (MEMO), the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and the Islamic Forum...