By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah1 November, 2009 Anyone listening to Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas these days would think the man is a paragon of democracy and liberty. ...

“Our Sons are not terrorists, the real terrorists are the Zionist child-killers” From Khalid Amayreh in al-KhalilAbu Yasser is an elderly Palestinian farmer living in the southern part of...

Attempts to bring to justice the killers of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai are apparently no nearer to finding the truth, with accusations and counter-accusations flying between Hamas, the Palestinian...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied JerusalemLast week, a few Palestinian journalists and I had the opportunity to meet with Martin Day, a spokesman of the British government. The meeting,...

By Khalid Amayreh 7 November, 2010 The Israeli government is exerting tremendous pressure on the UK to amend British laws allowing for the arrest and prosecution of suspected war...

By Khalid AmayrehDespite President Obama’s efforts to assure the pliant Ramallah leadership of his continued commitment to a notoriously disingenuous peace process, especially the creation of a Palestinian state,...

The British government has recently signed a ‘memorandum of understanding’ with the Palestinian Authority (PA) pledging funds to the tune of £156 million, to be delivered over the next...

By Khalid Amayreh Ellen Rosser, Professor of English and a veteran peace activist, maintained an office in downtown Gaza from September 2006 to June 2007. During that period she...

By Khalid Amayreh in RamallahSexual and financial corruption is “rampant” throughout the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to Fahmi Shabaneh. The former PA intelligence official has made these grave allegations...

By Khalid Amayreh In addition to its protracted war of terror against the Palestinian people, Israel has long waged an unrelenting campaign of psychological warfare against the Palestinian will,...

By Khalid Amayreh No catalogue of Israeli oppression and persecution of the Palestinian people can be complete without the ongoing plight of the villagers of Tuwani in the southern...

By Khalid Amayreh “You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, and...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine For many years, I have been  arguing rather constantly  that Israel is a decidedly terrorist state that differs little in character from other...

News analysis by Khalid Amayreh in East Jerusalem The recent decision by the Israeli government to banish four Palestinian lawmakers from Jerusalem to areas in the West Bank run...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem Outgoing British ambassador to Israel, Tom Phillips, has been quoted as saying that the British public is drifting away from Israel due to...

By Khalid Amayreh, Occupied Jerusalem It is one of the paradoxes of Israel that the Jewish state has a lot of support amongst right-wing and fascist groups in the...

By Khalid Amayreh in Dura, southern West Bank Heavily-armed Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces on Friday, 26 August, stormed the southern West Bank town of Dura, in the Hebron district,...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit hinted recently that Palestinian refugees would receive $50 billion dollars as a compensation for giving up the right...

By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah The European Union (EU) is considered the main donor and bankroller of the Palestinian Authority (PA), an entity that more or less lives off...

By Khalid Amayreh The Right-wing Israeli government on Sunday, 10 October,  approved a proposal that  would force non-Jewish citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a Jewish state. The  proposal...

By Khalid AmayrehThe recent Vatican synod on the deteriorating situation in Palestine-Israel did the right thing by pointing out that Israel ought to discontinue the use of the controversial...

By Khalid Amayreh Islamist parliamentarians in the West Bank and anguished families of political detainees being held by the Palestinian Authority have urged a visiting delegation of EU politicians...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem During his recent visit to Israel and the Gaza Strip, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini revealed rather brazenly his low intellectual capacity, a...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied PalestineA few weeks ago, a supposedly religious activist, probably from one of the Gulf States, suggested to me that Muslims shouldn’t confine our attacks...

By Khalid Amayreh The New Year bombing in Alexandria, which killed as many as 25 innocent people, nearly all of them Christian Copts, shocked Egypt and the Arab world....

Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have lashed out at the Al-Jazeera pan-Arab network for disclosing previously secret documents showing that PA negotiators had agreed to compromise over some cardinal issues...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied PalestineIsraeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, have been complaining about the increasing “de-legitimization” of the Zionist state across the world. Netanyahu, who is...

No serious political analyst outside Egypt can claim to know President Hosni Mubarak more than the Egyptians themselves, and they are very people who have been out in the...

It is clear that the Muslim Brotherhood is one of the main forces within the political opposition behind the people’s revolution against the Egyptian regime of President Hosni Mubarak....

During his tour of the Jordan valley a few days ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu told soldiers that the Israeli occupation army would have to maintain its presence...

Israeli leaders are lauding a Washington Post op-ed by former South African Judge Richard Goldstone in which he sought to ameliorate the severity of war crimes and crimes against...

Apparently worried about the potential impact on Israel of ongoing Arab revolutions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reported to be contemplating a new “peace plan” that will throw...