Selected Articles
Understanding Hamas after Khaled Meshaal's Gaza speech
By: Richard Falk *. The lens through which Hamas is being viewed must be changed if we are to understand it going forward. In the aftermath of Khaled Meshaal's emotional visit to Gaza in celebration of Hamas' 25th anniversary, commentary in Israel and the West has focused on his remarks at a rally as "defiant" and confirming "the true face"...
Egypt and Gaza between Aggression and Appeasement
By: Bashir Abdul Fatah. Israel's latest aggression against the Gaza Strip was not just a military assault on occupied land which has a geo-strategic link with Egypt, but it also presented a serious and deliberate challenge to the Egyptian President and his administration. President Mohamed Morsi needs to secure a difficult and complex balancing act through his ability to adopt...
How to Stop Israeli Crimes and Bring Peace to Gaza
Israel used advanced US military equipment for the slaughter and destruction, and relied on US diplomatic support, including the usual US intervention to block a UN call for a cease-fire.By: Noam ChomskyAn old man in Gaza held a placard that reads: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my...
Blood borders: How a better Middle East would look
By: Ralph Peters.International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference - often the difference between freedom and oppression, tolerance and atrocity, the rule of law and terrorism, or even peace and war.The most arbitrary and distorted borders in the world are in Africa...
We in the Gaza Strip will not die in silence
By: Musa Abumarzuq*. If the world will not defend the Palestinians against Israel, we have the right to defend ourselves. The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has prompted several European countries and the US to reaffirm their position of unwavering support for the aggressor. William Hague, Britain's foreign secretary, Cathy Ashton, the EU high representative for foreign affairs,...
Israel is an Apartheid State (No Poll Required)
By: Ben White*. A new Ha'aretz poll indicates a majority of Jewish Israelis favour apartheid - but that's nothing new. A poll of Jewish Israelis published last week in Ha'aretz newspaper created headlines round the world with its findings of support among the public for discriminatory policies. Some greeted the survey's results as vindication of claims made by critics of...
Britain's betrayal of the sacred trust in Palestine
By: Prof. John Dugard*. I want to discuss Britain's special historic role in securing peace in the Middle East; about the "sacred trust" that the UK undertook in 1920 to lead the people of Palestine to full statehood and independence. I know that this is a sensitive subject in Britain and in the Liberal Democrat Party: witness the rebuke administered...
Coming Soon To You: Another Desperate Israeli Propaganda Campaign
By: Ebrahim Moosa. For many decades, Israeli propagandists aided by the complicity of an unquestioning media had successfully managed to obscure the harsh realities of its apartheid policies and illegal occupation of Palestine from the eyes of the world. Palestinians were conveyed as violent beings always initiating conflict, and Israel as a tiny, embattled state relentlessly struggling for its survival....
Hamas: Dynamics and Evolution
By: Joseph Daher*. The upheavals sweeping through the Middle East and North Africa since the end of 2010 have left their mark on the region. Although the Palestinian political scene appears to have weathered the storm, it has not remained unaffected. Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group and ruler of the Gaza Strip, has been particularly touched by these regional changes....
