Thursday 18-July-2019
Hamas did a rare thing this week; it issued a press release contradicting one of its top officials Fathi Hammad who called for the killing of Jews everywhere in the world.
Tuesday 9-July-2019
Palestinians these days are fond of circulating on social media a scene from an old Israeli comedy which shows a group of Hamas fighters who could sneak through a tunnel into enemy territory and kidnap an Israeli officer in order to exchange him for Palestinian prisoners.
Wednesday 12-June-2019
It was a revealing and quite intersecting interview that Jared Kushner had with Jonathan Swan on Axios on HBO aired a week ago.
Wednesday 29-May-2019
One thing caught my attention during the latest Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip which left dozens of Palestinians dead.
Wednesday 24-April-2019
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro caused a big uproar in Israel after he addressed a group of evangelical pastors in Rio de Janeiro saying that he believes the crimes of the Holocaust can be forgiven but not forgotten.
Thursday 28-March-2019
Just few days separated the American official recognition of the Israeli authority over the Syrian Golan Heights and the rocket that destroyed a house in Tel Aviv.
Thursday 21-March-2019
On 4 March the newly formed Israeli Blue and White party’s leaders Gabi Ashkenazi Yair Lapid Benny Gantz and Moshe Ya’alon declared that Israel will not pull out from the occupied Golan Heights.
Monday 11-March-2019
Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi once said “Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.”
Sunday 3-March-2019
This week the Palestinians won a moral victory. The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) released a report that sheds light on the killing of peaceful Palestinian demonstrators in the Gaza Strip since March last year.
Sunday 17-February-2019
Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs has released a report called Terrorists in Suits: The Ties Between NGOs promoting BDS and Terrorist Organisations.
Saturday 9-February-2019
For decades Israeli leaders and media have insisted that Palestinians left their homes in the Nakba of 1948 leaving everything behind to become refugees of their own free will.
Tuesday 29-January-2019
General Benjamin (Benny) Gantz the 20th Chief of General Staff of the Israeli army was charged in March 2010 with illegally expanding his house onto public property.
Tuesday 8-January-2019
On 22 December Mahmoud Abbas the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) dissolved the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).
Friday 28-December-2018
On 16 December 2018 an Israeli court in the occupied city of Jerusalem sentenced Suzan Abu Ghannaam – the mother of 20-year-old Palestinian martyr Muhammad Abu Ghannaam – to eleven months in prison on account of “incitement” in a Facebook post.
Thursday 20-December-2018
About a month ago my wife asked me “Have you seen that two-story house they demolished in the West Bank. Such a pity it was such a beautiful house made of white stone. Why did the Israelis destroy it? What did its owners do?”
Saturday 24-November-2018
The result of the latest round of fighting in the besieged Gaza Strip when the Israeli army tried to carry out a covert military operation even while the Egyptians were in the final stages of mediating a ceasefire between armed factions in Gaza and the Israeli government proved that Palestinians can damage Israel as never before.