Prisoners exchange
For the first time since the Israeli war on Gaza in 2014, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling its willingness to engage in negotiations regarding the…
Palestinians in financial crisis after Israel, US moves
The Palestinian Authority faces a suffocating financial crisis after deep US aid cuts and an Israeli move to withhold tax transfers, sparking fears for the stability of the West Bank.…
Palestinian refugee camps breed new generation of militants
Nearly 30 years ago Hisham and his brothers - natives of the Dheisheh Palestinian refugee camp south of Bethlehem - lobbed stones at soldiers in the first uprising against Israel's…
Palestinian refugee camps breed new generation of militants
Nearly 30 years ago Hisham and his brothers - natives of the Dheisheh Palestinian refugee camp south of Bethlehem - lobbed stones at soldiers in the first uprising against Israel's…
Fatal decisions
TIMING is everything, especially in politics. Mistiming can be fatal, as three recent leaders, now out of power, have learned. In October 1999, PM Mian Nawaz Sharif decided to remove…
A fleeting peace
THE guns have gone silent in Gaza with the ceasefire coming into effect, as life limps back to what is considered normal in the enclave, devastated by incessant Israeli bombing for the…
Desperate Biden’s peace deal
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden seems to have put his personal credibility on the line by spelling out what he called a comprehensive three-phase Israeli proposal. He said “it is time to…
Can the Gaza ceasefire work?
NINE months into Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, the UN Security Council has finally endorsed a ceasefire plan that promises to end hostilities in the occupied territory. The US-sponsored three-phased plan, which was…
It is America’s war now
THE UN has warned that “an even more hellish scenario is about to unfold” in Gaza. Israel has now launched its heaviest bombardment yet on the Strip killing hundreds more…
Western media and the war
THE brazen one-sided account of the conflict justifying Israeli aggression against Palestinians living in the occupied Gaza Strip has exposed the mainstream Western media’s claims of objectivity in reporting. Truth…
