100 days in: Is the Middle East Trump’s new playground?
One hundred days into office, analysts say Trump’s Middle East policies remain largely unclear and arbitrary.
Would Russia recognise West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital?
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is “being instrumentalised by the Russians for border political games,” Al-Shabaka program director Alaa Tartir tells The Arab Weekly.
Arab Summit: ‘Arabs lost confidence in their leaders’
The summit will do little to end the conflicts in the region, analysts say.
Head of UN agency resigns over report that accuses Israel of imposing ‘apartheid regime’
The head of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) has reportedly resigned over the publication of a report by the UN agency that concluded that Israel was guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt” of imposing apartheid policies against Palestinians, and urged the international community to abide by its “legal obligation” to punish such discriminatory measures.
UN report: Israel has established an ‘apartheid regime’
Report breaks new ground on the UN’s examination of the situation in occupied Palestine by using the word ‘apartheid’.
The Assassination of Basel al-Araj: How the Palestinian Authority Stamps Out Opposition
Security coordination with Israel is one way for the PA to ensure its dominance and eliminate its rivals.
US ambassador to Israel: ‘Great advantage to Netanyahu’
David Friedman is known for his support for the most extreme elements in Israel’s settler movement.
European, North American Campuses Observe Israeli Apartheid Week
Israeli minister moves to revoke citizenship of Palestinian charged with murder
Israel’s Interior Minister and founder of the ultra-orthodox Shas party, Aryeh Deri, has officially begun the process of attempting to revoke the citizenship of a Palestinian citizen of Israel who has been accused of carrying out a “nationalistically-motivated” shooting in January, despite the fact that the trial and sentencing over the case has yet to begin.
