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Israel is continuing its attempt to influence the final stages of the agreement between Iran and the West after it failed in November. Tel Aviv hopes to influence the...

There has been much talk over the past ten years about the "new Middle East" which America has called for. This US project is based around four main areas:...

The Israeli government sets a state budget which is allocated to all sectors of society. Claims of economic discrimination are rife given the disparity in living conditions between Palestinian...

Following the leak of some 1600 documents a selection known as the Palestine Papers were released by Al Jazeera and the Guardian newspaper; they highlight previously unknown details relating...

The number of Palestinian children ill-treated and held in solitary confinement in Israeli jails has risen since 2012, a specialist report released earlier this month said. An international human...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said that peace in the Middle East is not achievable because Israel continues to occupy Palestinian lands. Speaking at the opening ceremony of...

Disagreements between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres have increased against the backdrop of Netanyahu's intention to postpone the presidential elections and unconfirmed reports that the...

In the second part of his campaign interview with the Dubai-based Sky News Arabia, Egyptian presidential hopeful and ex-army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi responded to answer regarding his foreign policy...

There has been a rise of more than 200 per cent in the crimes of extremist Israeli Jewish groups such as Price Tag against Palestinian property in the past...

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has accepted an Israeli offer to help search for 223 kidnapped school girls by the extremist Boko Haram group, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office...

Israeli Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz called for the death penalty to be reinstated as a deterrent for Palestinian prisoners while welcoming the decision to enforce life sentences. Speaking...

The Council of Catholic Churches in the Holy Land has criticised the escalation of "price tag" attacks against Palestinian Christian and Muslim properties, as well as the Israeli police's...

A group of extremist Israeli activists attempted to prevent a Palestinian politician from giving a lecture about the Nakba in Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva yesterday. The activists affiliate...

Israel's Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Sunday a bill that would bar the release of Palestinian prisoners before the end of their sentences in an effort to prevent...

Israel's Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Sunday a bill that would bar the release of Palestinian prisoners before the end of their sentences in an effort to prevent...

The Oslo project died a long time ago because Israel prefers continuing with its settlement activities and occupying Palestinian land to reaching peace, a senior al-Fatah official said. According...

Israeli authorities have demolished 237 Palestinian structures since the beginning of 2014 including 27 buildings in East Jerusalem and the remainder in area C in the West Bank compared...

The spokesperson for the interim Tunisian government, Abdel-Salam Al-Zobeidi, has denied that Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa gave any statements or interviews to the Israeli media, Al-Amatonline.net news website...

The Jerusalem village of Abu Dis has been under Israeli military attack since early this morning. Over recent nights youth activists in the area have opened up a very...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel are continuing secret peace talks brokered by the US administration, Palestinian news agency Quds Net reported today. Quds Net said information about the...

The Israeli occupation army declared the Quneitra crossing area, between the occupied Golan Heights and Syrian soil, a closed military zone yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Israeli occupation said...

Briefing Paper – October 2010By Sawsan Ramahi Hebron is one of the oldest cities in Palestine, perhaps one of the oldest in the world, and is located in the...

Briefing Paper – September 2010 A step towards another historic handshake, perhaps, but not necessarily a solution. Preamble The latest round of Middle East "peace talks" is under way....

Briefing Paper – June 2010By Sawsan Ramahi Racism was, and still is, an inherent feature of Zionism and the state established on its back, Israel. From its declaration of...

Briefing Paper – June 2010 An overview of the Christian presence in Palestine The estimated number of Palestinian Christians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem is...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) The last decade has seen some major welcome developments by the international community to promote universal justice and human rights. This is manifest, for...

Briefing Paper – June 2010 "Israel has enjoyed strong economic growth over the last decade, but the benefits of this are being distributed unevenly. Poverty rates are higher than in...

Briefing Paper – April 2010 Last month, Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, outlined a new foreign policy framework for a future Conservative government to an audience at RUSI –...

Briefing Paper – Mar 2010 By Sawsan Ramahi Background Land Day is considered to be a milestone in the history of the Palestinian struggle. It is the day when...

  Palestinians in Israel's 'democracy': The Judaization of the Galilee   Briefing Paper – Mar 2010 By Ben White Summary Points  The 'Judaization of the Galilee' refers to Israeli...

Briefing Paper – Mar 2010By Sawsan Ramahi World Water Day is upon us. Initiated by the United Nations in 1992 during its Conference on Environment and Development, 22 March...

Briefing Paper – Feb 2010 Key Points Israel's continued threats and belligerence toward its neighbouring states could plunge the region into all-out war. Given the current regional dynamics, it...