By John Chuckman There has been an ad on television recently, one featuring a young couple walking or drifting into a place of enchantment, a warm and colourful fantasy world, a kind of biblical Disneyland. […]

By Steve Breyman The director of Israel’s domestic security agency—the Shin Bet—expressed his deep concern in a cabinet meeting on November 2 that Israeli leaders who seek peace with the Palestinians may be assassination targets […]

By Sarah Gillespie – London The Brits are incapable of moderation when it comes to America. Normally the British enjoy a scathing, self righteous superiority, happily recycling the most embarrassing verbal blunders of Palin, Bush, […]

By Ivan Eland The media and the Washington foreign policy elite breathed a sigh of relief when Barack Obama thumped John McCain in the election. Had John McCain won, there was always the chance that […]

By Hatim Kanaaneh – Arrabeh, Galilee Nowadays things change fast, so much so that some worry we may be at the verge of bringing about our own demise as a modern civilization. That doesn’t keep me […]

By Motasem Dalloul – Gaza Marking the fourth anniversary of iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s death, many Palestinians blame rivals Fatah and Hamas for an ever-increasing divide and hijacking unity hopes. "For the failure of […]

By Ali Alarabi Senator Barack Obama’s victory is no less important than storming the Bastille more than 200 years ago in 1789 which was perhaps the one iconic event that ushered the dawn of the French […]

By Omar Barghouti A spate of recent news reports on international companies moving out of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) to locations inside pre-1967 Israeli borders gives the impression that boycotting products originating in illegal […]

By Muhammad Khawajah, 12 I live with my family in Ni’lin. We live on the ground floor of the house, my two uncles and their families live on the first floor, and my grandmother lives […]

By Kim Bullimore Violent attacks by Jewish residents in the Israeli city of Acre last month have left 14 Palestinian families, a total of 72 people, homeless. All 72 are Israeli citizens who had their […]

By Ghassan Khatib There is no doubt that the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, 13 years ago, was a turning point in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and that the period that followed could have […]

By Nadia W. Awad While researching the structure of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), I was taken aback when I came upon an article referring to them as ‘the most moral army in the world’. […]

By Jeff Halper Even before the voting began, Israeli politicians and pundits were asking: Will an Obama Administration be good for Israel? “Be good for Israel” is our code for “Will the US allow us […]

By Dr. Elias Akleh After Obama’s presidential victory a euphoric feeling swept the streets of most of the States. Thousands of people gathered in the Grant Park in Chicago, thousands others went into the streets […]

By Stephen Lendman On November 4, the world exhaled. The age of George Bush ended, and a new one under Barak Obama began. With high hopes he’ll reverse the toxic legacy of the past eight […]

By Ramzy Baroud The sovereignty of an independent, stable country that has carried out many constructive moves in recent months and weeks, which could have surely contributed to the stabilization of the Middle East, has […]

By John V. Whitbeck In the first major appointment of his administration, President-elect Barack Obama has named as his chief of staff Congressman Rahm Emanuel, an Israeli citizen and Israeli army veteran whose father, according to […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Barack Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya swept to victory as the US first black president. Despite the long campaign, the mud slung, the ugly inferences and demeaning […]

By Mahmoud El-Yousseph After reading about Israel’s most recent Man of the Year Award recipient, I did not know whether to laugh or cry.  It looks like the judging panel at the Israeli television station […]

By Mazin Qumsiyeh – The West Bank As an immigrant who thrived in every way in the US for 29 years having arrived with nothing but my will to learn, I know that indeed anything […]

By Mamoon Alabbasi – London The life and works of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish were celebrated in London Monday in a special event that paid tribute to the renowned Arab writer. The event, […]

By Joshua Frank Tuesday’s celebration hangovers have finally started to wear off, and the pieces are beginning to fall into place. Change will be coming to Washington in January, but it is difficult to decipher […]

By John Chuckman Already in the press there have been stories of plans to dampen the public’s expectations of Obama. The expectations are undoubtedly beyond being satisfied by any human being. Obama’s bright face, a […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai At the height of the Asian financial crisis and meltdown of Russia in 1990s, a pundit said that Boris Yeltsin went to bed drunk and Brazil woke up with […]