So far, the EU’s response to the Arab spring has largely failed to address how to deal with countries where no regime change has taken place or where large-scale popular uprisings are unlikely to lead to revolutionary overhaul. The Palestinian Te...
"The only solution to the Palestinian problem lies down the revolutionary road both in the Arab world and amongst the Israeli masses," Italo Calvino, Italian journalist and novelist, wrote in 1968
"It's time for us all to go and see the president," Dr Hassan Rohani suddenly told my French and German counterparts, Dominique de Villepin and Joschka Fischer, and me, across a large conference...
Making a guest appearance on the television show "Ça vous regarde" (It's your business) (LCP), former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said he was sounded out by the British in 2010—that is to say before the "Arab Spring"—to support a war agai...
Sousan HammadJune 17, 2013
Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996)
In Palestine people have a tremendous capacity to wait. Waiting to cross a checkpoint, waiting for a permit to authorize getting through the checkpoint, waiting for a teen-a...
Since the Arab awakening, Turkey’s working democracy and the significantly decreased role of the army in the public sphere have made it a model for many of its neighbors. Western business and policy circles were happy to see a market-friendly leader ...
It is six years since the violent split between the main Palestinian political factions, Fatah and Hamas.Tensions between the two intensified after the Islamist group, Hamas, won legislative elections in 2006. Hamas is listed as a terrorist organisatio...
If you want to break the political cycle of injustice and war, you can’t focus only on the politically ambitious. They’re just a mirror of our own condition. If we’re willing to be bought and sold, why shouldn’t they enjoy their brief time at the top?
Report: 'Tel Aviv University received finances from settler group' IMEMC 14 June -- [Thursday June 13 2013] The Arabs48 News Website has reported that the Tel Aviv University is cooperating with right wing settler groups involved in excavations in Silwan … Continue reading →
Israel once prided itself on taking in Vietnamese boat people in the late '70s. We are refugees ourselves, declared the Israeli Prime Minister. But in the Syrian case, when hundreds of thousands are filling refugee camps in several neighboring countries, Israel has a firm Not In My Back Yard policy. Not very neighborly.
by Robert E. Hunter With President Obama’s decision to step up arms supplies to the rebels there, Syria’s war has become his war. This was not part of his game-plan. Obama did inherit a mess in the region. This included two seemingly unending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, neither of which has much to do with
Israeli economy minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday the idea of a Palestinian state was at a "dead-end", the latest Israeli official to speak out ...
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Choosing one's words carefully is important simply because the stakes are high and emotions are powerful. Some who criticize Israel and its policies are undoubtedly anti-Semitic, but any intellectually honest person knows that not all of the...
"You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews..." (Qur'an 5:82) Usually this works out in practice that the most intense of the people in animosity toward the Jews are the Muslims. Note also Batayena's Qur'an quotes. Will Muslims in...
Erdoğan is trying to carve out a role for Turkey as the protector of the rights of Muslims worldwide while punishing dissent within its own borders. Translations: Español, Türk.
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Arab politics used to be simpler. The traditional “Big Three”—Egypt, Iraq, and Syria—all squabbled for primacy, against a backdrop of Saudi conservatism. Palestine was a unifying cause. The United States and the Soviet Union com...
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the international community not to ease pressure on Iran in order to curb its nuclear program. This comes in contrast with the international welcome to the election of a new president, Hassan Rouhani.
Max Blumenthal is "the next generation of Jewish dissent. Blumenthal is focused in a dispassionate and analytical way. Rather than ideology or theology, he sifts through data, researches connections and writes them in a way that is available to the broader public."
On Saturday night Gezi Park was flooded with people playing guitars and singing songs: the protest was clearly stagnating. 
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the international community not to ease pressure on Iran in order to curb its nuclear program. This comes in contrast with the international welcome to the election of a new president, Hassan Rouhani.