Measuring a response

Amid the coronavirus contagion, Israel’s strategy to confront the pandemic leaves out a large segment of beneficiaries: the Palestinian people, reports Lamis El-Sharqawy

Palestinians have been living under lockdown and curfew for decades. The coronavirus has only added to their troubles.

With no strategy to counter Arab states' alignment with Israel, it is unclear how much a change in the White House will benefit Palestinians.

Alliances have been shifting since Israel started signing a number of so-called peace accords with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain this summer. Hailed as beacons of peace by the US, who brokered these meetings, the Abraham Accords bypass an important actor in the equation of peace in the Middle East: Palestine. In order to understand the…

To many Palestinians, the UAE and Bahrain normalization agreements have revealed with stark clarity the extent to which they have been abandoned by the international community, and in particular the Arab states once counted as allies.

In Bielorussia le proteste contro il presidente Alexander Lukashenko, al potere dal 1994, vanno avanti da oltre un mese, senza perdere vigore. Abbiamo intervistato Natalia Kaliada, co-fondatrice e direttrice artistica del Belarus Free Theater, che ci ha raccontato la sua storia di repressione e resistenza artistica. Dopo l'annuncio dell'Accordo di Abramo da parte del presidente…

Pas moins de 72 ans d’une position arabe relativement unie sur la Palestine ont été enterrés officiellement hier à Washington. Un «jour noir dans un triste calendrier», un «coup de couteau de nos frères arabes»: le leadership palestinien n’a pas eu de mots assez forts pour condamner la signature des accords normalisant les relations d’Israël…

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump hosted a signing ceremony Tuesday at the White House for the normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab states of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. “These visionary leaders will sign the first two peace deals between Israel and the Arab state in more than a quarter century,”…