Articles
Far from unity, the Palestinian deal has led to implosion
The Hamas-Fatah unity deal has evaporated and both sides are now in some danger of splintering.
Israel's immigration plan for 'ethnically pure' bunker state
Israel's discrimination against African refugees is a symptom of its increasing slide towards a chauvinistic isolationism.
Sham or shame? Israel's policy on aid groups is both
As Israel grows less and less liberal, human-rights groups are in danger of being stifled.
'Hannibal' policy: Israel's plan to kill its own soldiers
Israeli boasts about Jewish ethical teachings as applied to prisoner swaps do not survive a look at the record and certain Israeli policies.
Israeli attacks set a 'price tag' on peace that cannot be paid
By attacking religious sites in Israel itself, hardline Jewish settlers are raising the stakes. If Palestinians inside and outside Israel unite, the price tag may be high for all.
UN statehood bid deals a death blow to the old diplomacy
The Palestinians' UN gambit marks the end of the US "honest broker" role, and also perhaps the end of the Palestinian Authority and the two-state solution.
Israel's rights groups condemn 'Jews only' businesses
Israeli businesses advertising for 'Hebrew labour' only are violating anti-discrimination laws, say rights organizations.
Do not speak, do not resist - Israel rules out non-violence
A new Israeli law prohibits people from even talking critically about the settlements. It is an attempt to stifle any peaceful resistance to the occupation.
A preacher's arrest shows the UK can be led by the nose
By giving Sheikh Raed Salah an undignified rush out of the UK, British authorities have shown themselves to be over-zealous, revealing their eagerness to behave in accordance with the wishes of the Jewish lobby
Palestinian settlement slated for development
Britain to deport Israeli Islamic leader Sheikh Raed Salah
The head of the Islamic Movement in Israel and a vocal critic of Israeli policies was arrested at his London hotel on Tuesday on charges of entering the country illegally as he was preparing to address a meeting yesterday in the British parliament attended by several MPs.
On an old anniversary, a new sense that change is possible
This Nakba Day was unlike the many that have come before. The Palestinian Arab Spring is arriving, and Israel has little defence against it.
World watches to see how far Hamas will compromise in peace with Fatah
After the deal struck last week between the Palestinian factions, the eyes of the political world now look at whether they can work together successfully to achieve the mutually beneficial goal of statehood for their people.
Israel expresses alarm at possible crisis in links with Egypt
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly complained to visiting European ambassadors and US politicians about what he regards as a new, more hostile climate in Egypt.
Jerusalem bookseller a 'foreigner' in homeland
Israeli officials have told Munther Fahmi that, after 16 years running his bookshop in the grounds of East Jerusalem's 19th-century hotel the American Colony, he is no longer welcome in Israel.
