Netanyahu in Hungary, isolated from the world
Saturday 5-April-2025
Benjamin Netanyahu appeared proud as he received a warm welcome from his closest European ally, Viktor Orban.
Hossam Shaker
Hossam Shaker is a researcher and author consultant in media public relations and mass communication for a number of organizations in Europe and he resides in Vienna. He has an interest in analysis of European and international affairs as well as social and media issues
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Why should Europe be concerned about the events in Amsterdam?
Tuesday 12-November-2024
Amsterdam suddenly came into the spotlight after Ajax’s match against Maccabi Tel Aviv. It was not the stunning score- five goals for the Dutch team versus nothing for their Israeli counterpart – that caught the world’s attention.
Wishful statements alone do not establish a Palestinian State
Saturday 19-October-2024
A full year has passed since the beginning of the ongoing war waged by Israel against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
Europe is not serious about stopping the genocide in Gaza
Sunday 31-March-2024
Has Europe really stopped supporting the genocide, ethnic cleansing and starvation war taking place in Gaza? It is clear that changes have occurred in European positions recently, compared to previous months.
Why should the world believe Netanyahu and his army?
Friday 20-October-2023
World leaders must believe Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli leaders without hesitation and benefit from the established method that provides the international community with extraordinary experience in how to act.
The bias of Western leaders does not help the Israelis wake up
Thursday 12-October-2023
The extremist government of Benjamin Netanyahu received overwhelmingly biased positions from Washington European and Western capitals.
Proposed speech for the President of the European Commission
Friday 28-April-2023
On Nakba Day we remember the incidents of the systematic destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages towns and residential areas and the forced displacement of their inhabitants 75 years ago.
A quarter of a century of coverage ended with an Israeli bullet
Thursday 12-May-2022
She carried her belongings and went with the Press team into the field to begin the news coverage.
Why doesn’t ‘normalisation’ really mean peace?
Thursday 10-September-2020
The new songs about peace are being sung as if the situation in the Middle East has come to a happy conclusion.
World continues to watch as Israel disregards human rights justice
Friday 12-June-2020
As the date for Israel’s planned annexation of Palestinian lands draws closer Israeli circles have expressed growing concern about the consequences of the move.
What going home and staying there means for the Palestinians
Tuesday 7-April-2020
“Stay at home” is the global command to curb the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19. It has a very different meaning for the people of occupied Palestine.
Netanyahu was unusually excited about a video call with an Arab nobody
Saturday 4-January-2020
Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be unusually excited on the sidelines of the Likud party conference on 26 December smiling widely despite the troubles he is facing with politics and the law.
A quarter of a century after Oslo the game is over for Palestinians
Thursday 19-December-2019
The ‘two-state solution’ has revealed itself to be a hoax marketed to Palestinians for more than two decades.
A clash between Israel’s rifles and the eyes opened to its violations
Tuesday 19-November-2019
On Friday November 15th photojournalist Muath Amarneh left his home wearing his uniform and blue helmet to cover the demonstrations by residents of the village of Surif near Hebron against the Israeli confiscation of their land.
Does Facebook impose curfews on Palestinians in the ‘blue world’?
Thursday 17-October-2019
When the Arab youth revolted in 2011 to demand freedom and democracy in their countries Facebook was the social media platform of choice for crowd mobilization a proven experience in other contexts around the world.
Muhammad a small child taken for an Israeli interrogation
Thursday 1-August-2019
Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was summoned by the Israeli police to be interrogated; the summons was handed to his family in occupied Jerusalem who had to take him to the police station.