The death knell for a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was pronounced by the war on Gaza, raging for the last 20 days.  Hamas, whether a winner or a loser of the war, will never accept a two-state solution as advocated by the Palestine Liberation Organ

The cultural gap between Palestinians and Israelis could be illustrated by thousands of incidents, but nothing reflects it more than the current war on Gaza.  Hamas assumed that there will be no ground offensive against the densely populated strip, which makes guerrilla war

The apathy of some Arab states towards the Israeli aggression on Gaza is one manifestation that the Arabs are no longer the same people that Gamal Abdel Nasser and King Hussein used to lead decades ago.  It could be justifiable for Damascus and Baghdad, both licking their w

Israelis have their own jihadist salafists, just like Jordanians, Iraqis, Syrians and Yemenis. Tragedies should not beget more tragedies.

A Jordanian court issued a verdict last week acquitting an Al Qaeda leader and one of its main ideologues of all charges of complicity in “terrorist explosions which rocked Amman in 1998”. Abu Qatada, Mohammad Mahmoud Omar, had been sentenced in absentia for 15

US President Barack Obama made a statement on Iraq a few days ago, elaborating on the dangers that are associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The American president said Jordan is one of the countries that will be targeted by ISIL if the extremist group

The West Asia North Africa conference convened in Amman last week for its sixth annual session.

The Arab media is making too much fuss about the new Israeli cabinet decision to build 1,100 new settlements in Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian territories, with the target of accommodating nearly 6,000 more ultra-orthodox settlers.

The Israeli government is celebrating this week a “united” Jerusalem. Festivities have not been confined to the holy city, but were carried out in main educational centres in the country. Palestinian Jerusalemites, who form 40 per cent of the city’s one millio