Palestine

Israel's chief negotiator Justice Minister Tzipi Livni hinted on Sunday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas might agree to recognise Israel as a Jewish state. Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper...

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas has denied claims of having any relationship with former Fatah member Mohammed Dahlan. Dr Mousa Abu Marzouk, a leading member of Hamas's political bureau,...

The belated decision to resort to international institutions has been hailed as a surprise by the media, signalling a dramatic shift from compliance to independence. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...

The decision by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to join the 15 UN organisations and the call for an international agreement has been seen as a positive and an important...

Palestinian resistance forces and the Israeli occupation army had a fresh confrontation in mid-March as part of the ongoing unrest. This new episode included the firing of tens of...

Fadwa Barghouti, a Palestinian lawyer and the wife of Fatah member and prisoner Marwan Barghouti, says that she hopes that the opportunity to release her husband will not be...

"When it takes you two whole days to cross a border, whereas it only takes a matter of hours to arrive in London; that is one meaning of freedom....

"A whole system of deception", was how anthropologist Meira Weiss, who observed the work of the Israeli forensic department, described the process of their dealing with the death of...

In Stalin's Soviet Union, mention of the great dictator's name in any mass meeting could trigger a standing ovation. This became a problem. In The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...

The ruling issued by the Egyptian Court for Urgent Matters that bans the Palestinian movement Hamas in Egypt is a very foolish ruling and may result in negative developments...

The recent decision of the Israeli Supreme Court on 11 March 2014, authorising the purchase of the Rajabi building in the H2 area of the city of Hebron to...

There have been many discussions in the media about plans and schemes to liquidate the Palestinian refugee issue and some information about the framework deal – initiated by US...

The indigenous Palestinian population who remained within the State of Israel following the Nakba ('catastrophe') now number around one million. The multi-faceted systems of oppression under which they live...

The peace negotiations which have embroiled Palestinians in further loss of land and autonomy have descended into a major capitulation to imperialist demands. Compromised before commencement due to an...

At the entrance of a Dead Sea resort located in the West Bank, Palestinian man Hazem paid his 70 shekels admission fee to the women sitting behind the desk....

Since the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas-ruled Gaza that ended eight days of war in November 2012, both sides have been engaged in what is known as...

The snow storm that hit Palestine was at its peak on 17 December 2013, but that did not prevent dozens of Palestinian youth from climbing up Carmel Mountain to...

The Hamas-Fatah "reconciliation" process is one of the most long-running and interminable dramas in the Palestinian sphere, second only to the Israeli-American "peace process" – which is still being...

Despite the resumption of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations last July, Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government has tightened its siege of the Gaza Strip, increased military incursions and missile attacks on the...

This week, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, went to Washington to meet with the US president, Barack Obama. He did so under heavy pressure, as...

It is unfortunate that the Palestinian cause is being let down these days by the shameful war of words between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his "opponent", Colonel Mohammad...

Israel's most recent murderous rampage elicited a spectrum fluctuating between statements and silence from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and James Rawley, UN deputy special coordinator for the Middle...

Yesterday, seven men from the village of Anata in the West Bank stood in court. While the specific charges against them were unknown, the crime that has put them...

If we judge by the official statements saying that Egypt's only problem is Hamas, and that the Cairo government's solidarity with the Palestinian people and its embrace of the...

The relative success of armed resistance to the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip has led many people to believe that all other forms of resistance are futile. Some...

Hamas was not "officially" present in Egypt in order for it to be banned (it is present in the hearts of its honourable people), nor has it been "officially"...

The equation has become inverted, with Egypt baring its teeth in the face of the anger of Palestinians at the Rafah crossing while adopting quiet diplomacy in dealing with...

Since the US-sponsored peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel recommenced last summer, Israeli forces have: authorised the approval of several thousand illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories;...

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly issued Resolution 181 which stipulated the division of Palestine and the establishment of two states, an "Arab" and a "Jewish" state...

Heroic illusions with regards imperialist intervention and rhetoric about a hypothetical peace agreement characterised an interview which US President Obama granted to Bloomberg. During a discussion hailing the restraint...

Since 1967, the Americans have embarked on thousands of rounds of negotiations in the Arab and Islamic world with the hopes of finding a solution for the Palestinian issue...

I told one of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's close friends that I would be writing a different article in which I would note his steadfastness in the event that...