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The Huffington Post (US). . MJ Rosenberg 20/11/2009. George Mitchell's job as Middle East Special Envoy has got to be terribly frustrating for a man whose life story has been...

By Oliver McTernan In June 2009, Barack Obama declared to the Arab world from the podium at Cairo University that the US would be even-handed in its efforts to...

Sent from Emily Schaeffer, human right lawyer in Israel/Palestine, who asked Archbishop Tutu to write the letter. It was with great joy that I learned of your recent 16-4...

By Omar RadwanLast Saturday, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority called on the United States to impose unilaterally a solution on the Israel-Palestine conflict. US President Barack Obama...

Perhaps it is more appropriate to begin with the question of whether a two-state settlement has ever been possible and/or viable at anytime at all since 1948. This essay...

US Financing Israeli-Only Roads in the West Bank By Jonathan Cook The construction of sections of a controversial segregated road network in the West Bank planned by Israel for...

By Omar Radwan On Sunday, Israel stopped Professor Noam Chomsky, the prominent American dissident academic, from entering the West Bank to give a lecture on American foreign policy at...

By Yvonne Ridley Hold the front page! The docile White House Press Corps has got itself all steamed up about something and finally taken a scalp. The Capitol Hill...

by Peter Beinart In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of...

By Attorney-d. Mahmoud Ramahi Any neutral person looking at the Palestinian situation would see that there is an underlying theme: "negotiations" is a euphemism for Palestinian concessions. This is...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban Despite transport and communications difficulties in the 19th and early 20th century, our ancestors defied the dangers of oceans, death and disease to get to...

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban When Nelson Mandela stood to greet the thousands of people gathered to watch the world cup final in South Africa, everyone stood to show respect to...

By John J. MearsheimerThere is no question that the United States has a relationship with Israel that has no parallel in modern history. Washington gives Israel consistent, almost unconditional...

By Maidhc Ó Cathail Helen Keller's pithy observation about American democracy being little more than a choice "between Tweedledum and Tweedledee" was never more true than in the upcoming...

By Alastair Crooke The 'weakness' of Europe — and also that of the US — in the Middle East is not essentially one of waning power and influence. Although...

By Maidhc Ó Cathail Even those familiar with the long and shameful history of America's appeasement of Israel were taken aback by the Obama administration's extraordinary offer to Benjamin...

By David Hearst The United States is sending a succession of envoys to engage with Hamas but lacks the bravery to talk to the Islamist movement openly, its leader,...

Los Angeles Times. .  Andrew J. Bacevich 05/12/2010The United States today finds itself in the position of a suitor proffering his beloved ever more munificent gifts while receiving in return ever more...

By Stephen J. SniegoskiA friend of mine, Phil Collier, is an avid student of and sometime writer on Middle East affairs (and a National Master in chess); he informed...

US administrations have been blighted since 9/11 by a deadly cocktail of arrogance and ignorance with a twist of strong desire for revenge thrown in. But before you take...

One could be forgiven for thinking that the last three letters of AIPAC stand for "political action committee." But since the American Israel Public Affairs Committee does not itself...

My concern for the Israeli-Arab conflict is a personal one. I was raised in a Jewish neighborhood — three synagogues within three blocks of our home in Springfield, Mass....

Barack Obama gave a major speech on the Middle East today and it is clear from the subsequent commentary that he impressed few people. The main reason is that he...

When it comes to Israel, politicians in Washington can get hysterical, making the stupidest of statements or acting idiotically. Evidence of such behaviour is common and varied; this week,...

The United States of America is preparing to use its veto in order to block Palestine's admission to the United Nations as an independent state. However, it is doubtful...

I am keeping a photograph that took up two pages in a London newspaper last week. It shows a noisy demonstration in New York against Wall Street and the...

The fatal shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin shocked a nation, inspired tens of thousands to march for justice and even prompted the US President to declare, "If I...

With the approach of the 2012 U.S. presidential elections scheduled for November, difficult questions have arisen about the significance of the Jewish lobby in those elections on the one...

Cairo: It's understandable that each country is entitled to pursue its national interests, and that one country's national interest may partially conflict with that of another. But it's difficult...

Foreign Policy magazine has compiled a list of the 50 Republicans who have the greatest influence on the GOP's foreign policy. "Politics is mostly about people – and nowhere...

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have been to Harvard University, but his recurring gaffes suggest that he is not ready to be commander-in-chief of the world's biggest superpower....

THE results of US elections are eccentric. While re-electing Barack Obama to the White House, voters also chose members of the opposing party as their representatives in Congress. Pundits...