On August 1, the Palestinian bedouin village of Al Araqeeb was destroyed for the 116th time.

There is something immoral in Washington DC, and its consequences can be dire for many people, particularly for the health of US democracy.The US government is declaring war on the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Neither Fateh nor Hamas have been of much relevance to the mass protests staged around Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Neither have American pressure, half-hearted European “concern about the situation” or cliché Arab declarations made one iota of difference. Unit

Israel, which has played a precarious role in the Syrian war since 2011, is furious to learn that the future of the conflict is not to its liking.The six-year-old Syria war is moving to a new stage, perhaps its final.

Early October 2016, Misbah Abu Sbeih left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli security station in occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem.The 39-year-old Jerusalemite was scheduled to hand himself over to serve a term of four months in jail for, allegedly,

Two officers sought me from within a crowd at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. They seemed to know who I was. They asked me to follow them, and I obliged.

No matter how hard White House officials try, they cannot construct a coherent “Trump doctrine” that would make sense amid the chaos that has afflicted US foreign policy in recent months.However, this chaos is not entirely the making of President Donald Trump.Since 1945, the Unit

The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel.When Haley speaks about Israel, her language is not merely emotive or tailored to fit the need of a specific occasion; rather, her words are resolute, consistent and ma

The typical newsroom setup, where journalists chase after news headlines dictated by some centralised news gathering agency — often based in some Western capital — does not suffice anymore.In the case of much of the Middle East, the news narrative has been defined by others and d