President Obama

Israeli settlers in the West Bank have rejected President Obama's May 22nd remarks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, stressing that Israel's control over the Jordan...

Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt comments following Israel's announcement that 1500 additional settlements will be built in East Jerusalem. UK Foreign Minister Alistair Burt...

In an almost unprecedented event 54 US Congressmen have written a joint letter to President Obama urging him to press for "immediate relief for the citizens of Gaza" by...

A Palestinian MP has said that if the US administration was "genuinely interested" in helping to ease the suffering of his people, it could do so. Instead, claims Jamal...

By Glenn Kessler Rashid Khalidi, a friend of President Obama's active in Palestinian causes, has signed an appeal for funds to send to Gaza an aid ship that would...

The Obama administration is discussing several ways to confront Iran's nuclear ambitions in the hope that Washington can forestall a unilateral Israeli attack, the New York Times said on...

More than half of the members of the US Congress House of Representatives have urged President Obama to shut down the office of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in Washington...

A spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement has expressed the wish for newly re-elected President Obama to be more "impartial" in the Middle East peace process. Hamas official Sami...

The Obama administration is apparently failing to please either the military leadership in Egypt or Muslim Brotherhood officials in its diplomatic efforts to find a way out of the...

Like many US presidents passed, President Obama is determined to violently attack others in the name of morality and the common good. He and other American exceptionalists tell us...

The right of return of Palestinian refugees is often presented as a stumbling block to peace, a 'final status issue' that will require a great and painful 'compromise'. But...

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...

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,...

To many analysts President Obama's appointment of a special US envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) was only another item of window-dressing. On the burning issues that...

By Jeff Gates Over the past two months, Benjamin Netanyahu has mentioned the fate of jailed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard six times in meetings with President Obama and Secretary...

On 15-16 October, 1991, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad spent more than 15 hours with James Baker, the then U.S. Secretary of State, discussing the terms and phrases which should...

Article 1, paragraph 1 of the Charter of the United Nations says that the purpose of the organisation is "to maintain international peace and security". On that level, the...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was keen to draw attention to his success in incorporating the Movement Party, led by former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, in his latest coalition...