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January 24, 2014

Qatar's enigmatic diplomacy and the Arab Spring

This week, 48 Iranian prisoners being held by rebels in Syria were freed, in return for 2,100 prisoners being held by the Syrian authorities. It was one of the...

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January 24, 2014

Israel is a different place from the outside looking in

Imagine a Middle East where Naftali Bennett was Israel’s Prime Minister. Former settler leader and IT entrepreneur turned politician, his agenda is a lethal cocktail of pro-settlement, anti-Palestinian statehood...

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January 24, 2014

As the death toll in Syria rises, hope for a diplomatic solution fades by the minute

Syria’s bloody civil war has been going on for nearly two years. Two things are certain. Firstly, we are no closer to a diplomatic solution. The International Crisis Group...

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January 23, 2014

What does the election of another Likud-led coalition mean?

Israel’s general election will take place on Tuesday 22 January. It has long been forecast that Binyamin Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister, will win a comfortable majority. Opinion polls...

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January 23, 2014

Netanyahu's opportunism and the crisis in Mali

Eleven days ago, France launched an operation in Mali to help the government push back Islamist rebels with links to Al-Qaeda. The move had considerable international support. One of...

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January 23, 2014

Western acceptance of discriminatory Israeli practices based on citizenship and nationality

Ben Gurion’s requirement of achieving Jewish supremacy in the ‘State of Israel’ has been a continuous and discriminative historical process. Demography has been consistently approached from an obsessive preservationist...

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January 23, 2014

Jordan's reluctant reformer

During 2011’s Arab Spring, protests swept the Middle East. Dictators were ousted, civil wars erupted, and even countries where out and out regime change was not on the cards...

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January 23, 2014

Israeli government imposition of contraception on Ethiopian Jews causes 50% drop in birth-rate

Birth rates among Israel’s Ethiopian Jewish community have fallen by nearly 50 per cent in the last 10 years. Now, for the first time, a government official has acknowledged...

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January 23, 2014

Israel's boycott of the UN human rights scrutiny session

In another attempt to degrade the universal definition of justice, Israel failed to attend the UN Human Rights Council meeting last Tuesday, boycotting the session and suspending its participation...

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January 23, 2014

What next after Israel's attack on Syria?

On Wednesday, an Israeli air strike hit a target on the Syrian-Lebanese border. It is still unclear exactly what the target was. Syrian state television claims that warplanes were...

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