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Years before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, US media introduced many new characters, promoting them as 'experts' who helped ratchet up US...
This is, said Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, the "interregnum"; the rare and seismic moment in history when great transitions occur, when empires...
The Palestine National Football Team has, once more, done the seemingly impossible by qualifying for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. By any standards, this is...
While it is true that Zionism is a modern political ideology that has exploited religion to achieve specific colonial objectives in Palestine,...
Starting on 31 May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarked on a tour of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, where he visited Bahrain,...
What took place between May 2021 and May 2022 is nothing less than a paradigm shift in Palestinian resistance. Thanks to the popular and inclusive...
The distance between Ukraine and Mali is measured in thousands of kilometres, but the geopolitical distance is much closer. So close, in fact, that it...
Israel's Supreme Court has decided that the Palestinian region of Masafer Yatta in the southern hills of Hebron is to be appropriated entirely by the...
The Nakba is back on the Palestinian agenda. For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the...
The position of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, has never been occupied...
Israel's coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics,...
The Russia-Ukraine war has turned quickly into a global conflict. One of the likely outcomes of this is the redefinition of the current world order,...
Like typical analyses offered by western intelligence when trying to assess risks or understand major political phenomena in the Middle East, Israeli...
Palestinians are justifiably worried that the mandate granted to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, might be coming to an end....
While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war...
Ever since 15 April, the Israeli occupation army and police have raided Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on a daily basis. Under the pretence of...
A young journalist friend of mine in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged territory have rocketed in recent weeks....
The meeting between Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the eastern Chinese city of Huangshan on 30 March...
There is a reason why Israel is insistent on linking the series of attacks carried out by Palestinians recently to a specific location, namely the...
When Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on 29 March reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve...
When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied-up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged...
Much has been said and written about media bias and double standards in the West's response to the Russia-Ukraine war, when compared with other wars...
"The water is back," one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic, often very late at night. The moment such an announcement was...
Israel's balancing act in the Russia-Ukraine war is likely to falter soon, simply because the resulting NATO-Russia conflict is expected to last for...
"We are anonymous because we fear retaliation." This text was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried...
The tables have turned. A high-level US delegation visited Venezuela on 5 March, hoping to repair economic ties with Caracas. One of the world's...
A new global geopolitical game is in formation, and the Middle East, as is often the case, will be directly impacted by it in terms of possible new...
Israel's war on Palestinian sport is as old as the settler-colonial state itself. Sport is a critical aspect of popular Palestinian culture, and since...
Finally, France will be leaving Mali, nearly a decade after the original military intervention in 2013. The repercussions of this decision will hardly...
Can Israel be pressured? Or is it the only exception to international norms and the global political order in which every country, big or small, is...
When Nelson Mandela was freed from his Robben Island prison on February 11, 1991, my family, friends and neighbours followed the event with keen...
Mainstream US media continues to celebrate the supposed strength of the US economy. Almost daily, headlines speak of hopeful numbers, sustainable...
The current split in the African Union (AU) over Israel's observer status within the organisation is emblematic of a larger conflict that has the...
A succession of events in recent weeks all point to the inescapable fact that nearly 75 years of Israel's painstaking efforts to hide the truth...
As soon as Moscow received an American response to its security demands in Ukraine, it answered indirectly by announcing greater military...
A scheme is under way to withhold or to reduce payments made by the Palestinian Authority to the families of Palestinian prisoners. According to...
It should matter little to the Chinese that American diplomats and a handful of their western allies will not be attending the Beijing Winter...
Former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his prosecutors are reportedly finalising the details of a plea deal that would practically...
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, is leading his country's anti-Palestinian propaganda, this time engaging in pre-emptive...
The diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games may go down in history as the official start of the cold war between the...
It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had rejected a Knesset (Israeli Parliament) bill which...
As soon as media reports emerged regarding a deal between Palestinian prisoner, Hisham Abu Hawash and the Israeli prison authorities, Israeli...
Although 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues that will linger for a while, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the news in...
With Syria still embroiled in its own war, Israel has been actively rewriting the rule book regarding its conduct in the neighbouring Arab country....
At the onset, 2021 appeared to be another ordinary year, one of unrelenting Israeli occupation and continued Palestinian misery. While much of that...
An article by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times last July is a prime example of western intelligentsia's limited understanding of China's...
At the outset, the Israeli military decision to revise its open-fire policies in the occupied West Bank seems puzzling. What would be the logic of...
The result of a vote in the US House of Representatives on 14 December may signal a change in Washington's approach to the social-political evil...