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  • May 4, 2014

    An Israeli trap for Britain

    In arresting Sheikh Raed Salah, the UK authorities support the persecution of Arab citizens of Israel The decision to ban the Palestinian leader Sheikh Raed Salah from entering Britain,...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Al Dustour opinion: In the Arab absence, Judaisation is continuous

    The impartial observer of the Arab and Palestinian scene cannot fail to notice the unfortunate and unjustifiable absence of an Arab political stance while Israel’s Judaisation programme continues apace...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    More extremist than their Israeli paymasters

    The decision by London’s Queen Mary University to pull the plug on an event hosted by the Middle East Monitor (MEMO), the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and the Islamic Forum...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Britain's untouchables

    In the week that the British government announced its latest Prevent counter-terrorism strategy, events in the occupied Palestinian territories took yet another sinister turn; illegal Israeli settlers heightened their...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Let them have people's democracy for a change

    Throughout post-colonial history Arab aspirations for democracy have never been fulfilled. That was because governance was imposed from above. The region’s people have never had ownership of their countries’...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Israel's PR victory shames news broadcasters

    Our latest analysis of news bulletins reveals how Israel continues to spin images of war The propaganda battle over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached a new level of intensity....

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    An inglorious and shameful retreat by Obama

    No one could have expected that US President Barak Obama’s resistance to the Israeli campaign against him, led by Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, in response to statements he made...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Palestine in the Obama speech

    With a better track record of positive action, Barak Obama could have returned to Cairo to deliver his latest speech on the Middle East. Having failed to deliver on...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Time to replace the memory of expulsion with the reality of return

    This year’s commemoration of the Nakba (catastrophe) is like no other. For the first time in many decades the Palestine issue has truly found its way to the top...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Palestinian reconciliation is the fruit of Egypt's revolution

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right to say that Palestinian reconciliation is a blow for Israel. However, he was wrong to suggest that it is damaging to the...

    Commentary & Analysis