The root cause of trouble in this region for the last 60 years has been the usurpation of Palestinian rights by Israel. This is a fact that Israeli Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett is oblivious to.

News about Al Aqsa Mosque has been overshadowed by the bombardment of the Islamic State’s command and control centres in Iraq and Syria. Last week, the Netanyahu-Lieberman government took advantage of the fact that the whole world was following the siege by IS fighter

In a move that projects total self-confidence, the authorities refused to rearrest Omar Mahmoud Othman (Abu Qatada) following his exoneration of all terrorist charges regarding his alleged role in the Millennium plot in 2000, according to which tens of Westerners were to be kille

Four years before the tragic attack on the Twin Towers in New York, which led to the death of nearly 3,000 Americans and, later, of the “collateral” death of 1.5 million in Iraq or hundreds of thousands in Afghanistan, the Arab League had finished a study about ways a

The brutal murder of American journalist Steven Sotloff should be condemned by the press community and leaders of the Islamic world. The image of Islam as a monotheistic compassionate message of God to the human race as a whole has been slaughtered as well and simultaneously by

Seven weeks of bloodshed and searing images gave testimony that Hamas did not win its war against Israel. Hamas’ main condition to accept a ceasefire was the lifting of the eight-year-old blockade of Gaza.

Many Jordanians in the US are furious about what they consider “a systematic distortion of our image, both as Arabs and as Muslims”.  They admit that the stereotype about Arabs in the American minds has been negative for centuries, and about Islam even worse sin

Five Jordanians phoned their families in Salt last week, inviting their brothers to join them in Mosul, where “God’s laws are applied, and the Islamic Sharia doctrines are enforced”, they said. It is true that the Islamic State pays each fighter nearly $450 mon

The result of the Hamas-Israeli first round of mini-wars that lasted for 28 days ended up in a draw. Hamas failed to force Israel to end the blockade imposed on Gaza.