Added on 24/01/2011
Juan Cole
Abdel Bari Atwan , Diana Buttu , Fatah , Gaza , Hamas , Israel , Jerusalem , Jordan , Journalist , Lebanon , London , Mahmoud Abbas , Olmert government , Palestine , Palestine Authority , Palestine Liberation Organization , Palestinian Authority , President , Qatar , Saeb Erekat , The Guardian , United Nations

JUAN COLE: The 1600 documents leaked to Al Jazeerah could spell the end of the PLO and drive the nail in the coffin of the so-called ‘peace process’.
Added on 09/01/2011
Carol Daniel Kasbari
Israel , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Peace

CAROL DANIEL KASBARI: The fears on both sides are similar – loss of identity, threat of physical harm , a worry the ‘other side’ wants to throw them into the sea.
Added on 08/01/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Algeria , Amman , Fatah , Gaza , Gaza Strip , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Lebanon , Mahmoud Abbas , Middle East , Oslo , Palestine , Palestine Liberation Organization , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , President , Tunisia , United Nations , United States , Uruguay , West Bank , Yasser Arafat

RAMZY BAROUD: The Palestinian leadership needs to embrace partners of old, from the time before Oslo, the “peace process”, the Roadmap and all the other broken promises…
Added on 06/01/2011
Michael J. Totten
Cairo , Conspiracy Theories , Egypt , Egyptian government , Iran , Iranian government , Iran’s government , Israel , Jeffrey Goldberg , Palestine , Peace , Tehran

MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: There’s nothing the Israelis can do to appease this stupidity. They are hated in part because the people who hate them are mad.
Added on 05/01/2011
Mondoweiss
Gaza , Palestine , Peace , War

SARA ALI, MONDOWEISS: BANG..BANG.. the tank is not leaking anymore. It’s not even there. The lawn slowly dies. I desperately need to go irrigate it.
Added on 03/01/2011
Juan Cole
Afghanistan , Ahmet Davutoglu , Alexandria , Ali Abdullah Saleh , Ankara , Asia , Avigdor Lieberman , Bush , Christian Church , Damascus , Egypt , Egyptian military , Gaza , Germany , Hamas , Hamid Karzai , Hosni Mubarak , House of Representatives , India , Iran , Iraq , Iraqi army , Islamic Republic of Iran , Israel , Jordan , Justice and Development Party , Kirkuk , Lebanon , MEK , Middle East , Muslim Brotherhood , Netanyahu government , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Obama administration , Oil , Pakistan , Palestine , Palestine Authority , Paris , President , Republican Party , Swat Valley , Syria , Taliban , Tehran , Turkey , U.S. , United Nations , United Nations Security Council , United States , US government , US military , Washington , West Bank , Wikileaks , Yemen

JUAN COLE: The Obama administration has been successful in tightening the financial noose on Iran during 2010, but Iran could fight back like a cornered rat…
Added on 30/12/2010
Jonathan Cook
Bedouin , Ben Gurion University , Benjamin Netanyahu , Christian Zionist , Congress , East Africa , Europe , Human Rights Watch , Israel , Israeli government , Israeli police , Jerusalem , Jewish National Fund , Middle East , Negev , Neve Gordon , North Africa , Palestine , politics professor , Prime Minister , Rabbi , Supreme Court , The National , United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom , United States , Washington , West Bank

JONATHAN COOK: The involvement of extremist Christian groups like God-TV will turn this into a religious confrontation – much harder to resolve…
Added on 29/12/2010
Joharah Baker
Army , Food and Drink , Israel , Israeli army , Italy , Jerusalem , Journalist , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Peace , West Bank

JOHARAH BAKER: We know what buttons to press to evoke an immediate reaction from each other. Proximity and hostility does strange things.
Added on 23/12/2010
Osama Al Sharif
Asharq Al-Awsat , Darfur , Europe , Hizbollah , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jerusalem , Lebanon , Middle East , Obama , Obama administration , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Peace , President , Sudan , UN Security Council , United States , Washington , West Bank , Yemen

OSAMA AL SHARIF: 2010 has established that the region has failed to learn from its past. Failing to resolve conflicts does not mean that they simply go away.
Added on 19/12/2010
Jonathan Cook
Association of Civil Rights in Israel , B'Tselem , Conflict , Israel , Israeli police , Jerusalem , Netanyahu , Palestine , Prime Minister , The National , United Nations , United States , West Bank , Yitzhak Aharonovitch

JONATHAN COOK: The children of East Jerusalem are bearing the brunt of an aggressive Israeli crackdown which has human rights activists up in arms.
Added on 17/12/2010
Ramzy Baroud
Al-Aqsa , Amazon.com , Civil society , Gaza , internationally-syndicated columnist and the editor , Israel , Israeli Committee against House Demolitions , London , Middle East , Mossad , Palestine , PalestineChronicle.com , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , Peace , Pluto Press , Ramallah , Red Cross , Russell Tribunal on Palestine , West Bank , www.ramzybaroud.net

RAMZY BAROUD: It is the very balance between destruction and rebuilding, despair and hope, occupation and perseverance that makes the Palestinian people powerful.
Added on 09/12/2010
Osama Al Sharif
Abu Dhabi , Afghanistan , GCC , Geneva , Gulf , Iran , Iraq , Islamic Republic of Iran , Israel , Israeli government , Jordan , Lebanon , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Middle East , Nuclear technology , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , President , Saudi Arabia , Tehran , Turkey , United States , Washington , whistleblower site , Yemen

OSAMA AL SHARIF: Focus on Iran or Afghanistan should not be at the expense of the Palestine Question, which remains crucial to peoples of the region.
Added on 26/11/2010
Ramzy Baroud
Aaron David Miller , Arab League , Barack Obama , Benjamin Netanyahu , China , Congress , Europe , Gaza , George W. Bush , Hilary Clinton , Iran , Israel , Jerusalem , Latin America , Mahmoud Abbas , Middle East , Netanyahu’s government , Obama administration , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , President , Prime Minister , Secretary of State , The Jerusalem Post , The New York Times , Turkey , U.S. Congress , UN Security Council , United States , West Bank , White House

RAMZY BAROUD: It looks like President Obama will finish his term having secured no advance in Arab-Israeli negotiations. The Israelis do the talking, Washington does the listening. And the giving…