There were two headline-grabbing events on Thursday, July 17: the downing of Malaysian Flight MH17, presumably by separatists in eastern Ukraine, and the beginning of Israel’s ground assault into the Gaza Strip. While the for...
The French authorities have prohibited a public demonstration in support of the Palestinians in Gaza victims of Israeli aggression. The country which prides itself on its defense of human rights is turning a blind eye to the su...
Since the kidnapping and subsequent killing of three teenage Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on 12 June, the Israeli Army have launched a mass, indiscriminate campaign of abductions, home invasions, shellings and aer...
Conflicts today are increasingly difficult to contain within a single set of borders, and are now more complex in nature due to the multiplicity of actors that each have their own vested interests in the given conflicts. This m...
The children of Gaza have been plagued with wartime memories that have haunted them since 2008. Psychological trauma has led to other severe health issues which now act as a serious burden for them. Malnutrition, anaemia and po...
In the mind of a number of pundits, including a large number of Egyptians, the election of President Morsi as a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) should have initiated a drastic change in Egyptian foreign policy tow...
Gaza will crack, creating 500,000-750,000 new refugees in Sinai as well as dispersion of Palestinian leadership and Egypt will be forced into crisis containment status. The Gaza Strip is one of the largest recipients of interna...
Since the assassination of Hamas’s military commander, Ahmed Al-Jabari, who aided in the negotiations to release captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, on November 14th as part of Operation Pillar of Defence, Israel has conti...
Israel is again on a murderous rampage in Gaza. In December 2008, Israeli forces attacked the besieged Palestinian territory and killed over 1400 civilians mostly women and children. In May 2010, the Israeli navy attacked a Tur...