Fear and trepidation are slowly building up, as US President-elect Donald Trump is fortifying his transitional team with people capable of bringing about a nightmare scenario, not only for Americans but for the rest of the world as well.For Palestinians, the signs are even more o

As I was growing up, I was always reassured by the sound of the muezzin’s call for prayer in our refugee camp’s main mosque in Gaza.

The Fateh movement is involved in a massive tug of war that will ultimately define its future.Though the conflict is between current Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and once Gaza strongman Mohammad Dahlan, it is in no way motivated by a desire to end the Israeli occ

Did Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi actually read the full text of the UNESCO resolution on Palestine and Israel before he raved with anger?“I think this is a mistaken, inconceivable resolution,” he said.“It is not possible to continue with these resolutions at the UN and UNE

“The United States has the power to decree the death of nations,” wrote Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe.Kinzer’s article was titled “The media are misleading the public on Syria”.In his piece, the scholar at a Brown University Institute contested that his country’s media misin

The Israeli official narrative regarding its conflict with the Palestinians is deliberately confounding because a muddled up discourse is convenient.

Former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres was a very successful brand.

Ban Ki-moon’s second term as secretary general of the United Nations is ending this December. He was an ideal man for the job as far as the United States and its allies are concerned.Of course, there will always be other Ban Ki-moons.

“A photograph, no matter how emotionally wrenching, can only do so much,” wrote Paul Slovic and Nicole Smith Dahmen in QZ.com.The photograph referenced in their comment was that of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, whose body was washed ashore on some Turkish beach in September 2015.It