Dialogue is the answer– what’s the issue?
While checking into a major international chain of Hotels in Cairo, a couple of years back, I was intrigued more by fascination than surprise by the “ Pin” all the…
Palestine conflict
THANKS to social media, a lot of information has been provided to the world regarding the background, causes, and the terrible casualties in the Israeli war on Hamas, which has…
Victims of geopolitics: Palestine and Kashmir
The recent tragic developments in and around Gaza are a painful reminder of the deep and festering wound inflicted upon the Palestinian body politic by Western colonialism in connivance with…
Fake news, Palestine, and local response
The situation in Palestine is horrifying. But at home there is considerable confusion about precisely what is happening and what should be said or done. In the first place our…
Palestine and imperialism
Hamas launched a well-planned and organized attack on Israel. The scale and speed of the October 7 Hamas attack shocked Israel. Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel. Hamas gunmen…
Pakistan, Palestine and the World Court
Pakistan has an important opportunity to support Palestinian rights at the World Court and in doing so to advance key principles of international law that protect human rights globally. In…
Palestine’s resistance model
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 nature of Palestinian mobilization against…
Palestine’s victories
In November 2006, the Israeli military prevented all Palestine-based footballers from participating in the final match of the Asian Football Confederation qualification group stage. The news had a major demoralizing…
Palestine: peace and its discontents
An unjust lull has set in after eleven days of Israeli barbarity that saw the use of disproportionate murderous force against a Palestinian population that has defied death, displacement and…
On Israel and Palestine
Joe Biden came into office wanting to focus on key US foreign policy priorities – checking China’s rise, and mending fences with Western allies. Getting involved in the Middle East,…
