Middle East

The Arab Spring arrived 10 years after George W. Bush declared the advent of the "war on terror". The events of September 11 allowed the Bush administration to launch...

Syria's apparent use of chemical weapons provides a good excuse for an American-Western military intervention in Syria. If the West was driven by the immorality of killing on a...

I am a peace activist but at the moment one wrestling with her conscience because, in truth, if someone gave me a gun and Syria's President Bashar al-Assad strolled...

Since America became the leader of the "free world", interference in the independence and sovereignty of nation states around the globe has become a permanent fixture of US foreign...

Visiting Aleppo in late July was one of the most horrendous journeys I have ever undertaken. Travelling in a convoy of 30 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid, my initial...

Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled the crisis in their war-ravaged homeland, leaving behind family, friends and their livelihoods. Escaping with little more than the clothes on...

There's little trust in America's motives, and an airstrike would not stop the brutal slaughter of civilians. Far better to help the rebels directly The Arab world has longed...

As the eyes of the world turn to Syria, the Egyptian crisis is continuing. This week, it was announced that deposed president Mohammed Morsi and 14 of his Muslim...

On Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem to Israel, a young Jewish settler was asked if his country is an apartheid state. His reply was...

If President Barack Obama has disappointed the Syrian opposition by seeking congressional approval for an attack on Syria, he did the same to America's allies in the Middle East....

Given the involvement and degree of relative success of the Islamic movements perhaps we should be referring to the "Islamic Spring", not the "Arab" version. It is worth considering...

I've just watched on Al-Jazeera Arabic with interest, amusement and amazement the first part of a new documentary called "The Price of Oslo" produced by Al-Jazeera Programmes Department as...

The Egyptian army and Israel have grown much closer in the weeks since the coup d'etat. In a Ha'aretz report, Amos Harel, suggested that the Egyptian and Israeli relationship...

Debates have taken place around the world about the crimes committed in Syria, the most worrying of which was the death and injury of thousands due to the use...

The campaign to remove Hamas from government in Gaza has started: a "rebellion" movement has been announced; journalists have been invited to meet its "secret" leader; and Fatah's Azzam...

US Secretary of State John Kerry is prepared to say anything in order to rally support for Barack Obama's plans for a military attack against Syria, including outright lies....

"When more Yemeni children attend school and learn to read, they are better able to contribute to this great nation—as knowledgeable and skilled citizens. This is our dream." So...

One of the blunders of modern science was the creation of weapons that can spread toxins and disease within a matter of minutes. However international awareness about the dangers...

The fallout from the coup in Egypt includes a number of answers to questions regarding political and security issues since the fall of the Soviet Union. The collapse of...

The world has been transfixed by events in Egypt and Syria, with the West's moral conscience missing over the former but resurfacing on the latter thanks to the use...

The official Jordanian position on what is happening in Syria remains unclear. After nearly two years of revolution in Syria, Jordan has tried to distance itself as much as...

Last week, Congress was due to vote on a resolution which would authorize US President Barak Obama to conduct "limited" military strikes, aimed at "deterring" Syria's leader Bashar Al-Assad...

I'm not sure if we are all aware of the extensive efforts taking place around us in order to use the "failure" of the Muslim Brotherhood's year in office...

The conspiracy against the Syrian Revolution has never been more pronounced than it is now after the deal to rid the country of its chemical weapons. It is clear...

Two decades after the Oslo Accords, and many violations of its terms and much delusion, the Palestinian Authority established as a result of the agreement appears to be facing...

Part 1: A green light to Assad Ever since the Syrian regime gassed its own citizens in the Damascus suburbs in a chemical attack on August 21, the issue...

The ill-fated Oslo Accords, signed 20 years ago, have only made Israel more arrogant and open about its disregard of the Palestinians' national rights. Illegal settlements and their infrastructure...

Part 2: The destruction of a people On Monday, the residents of Kafr Zeita, a town in north central Syria, were retrieving the corpses of their loved ones from...

The Revolution Leadership Council in Damascus (RLCD) For a long time, I thought commentary about the international community's 'inaction' and 'impotence' and the rest of it has become clichés...

After 30 months of violence, Syria appears to have collapsed and is almost lifeless. More than two-thirds of the population are in danger and much of the infrastructure has...

In 2006, the US, Israel, Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority (PA), dominated by the secular Fatah movement, decided to end the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation. They...

Jonathan Brenneman packed for his second attempt at crossing the Jordan-West Bank border with a jacket, fully charged iPod, letters of official invitation and 500-page collection of Flannery O'Connor...