Fighting and infighting continues in Gaza, Palestine. Intriguing part is, enemy keeps changing. Now the issue is no longer Palestine-Israel fight. It is a clash within two groups in Gaza, Hamas and Fatah. Further, there are rifts within clans...
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Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, due to face parliament dissolution bill, has lost last chance to make ceasefire negotiations with Hamas mediated by Egypt work in his favour. A rocket attack on Israeli border town of Sderot from Hamas controlled...
Overcome by continuous instability along its coastal strip bordering Gaza that is threatening a population explosion with exodus of Palestinian refugees breaching the Rafah border and growing prominence of Iranian influence in the politics of western...
The mainstream media wants to appear objective and universally true. Yet nothing is ever ideologically unbiased. Take the case of the BBC reporting on Israel’s incursions into the Gaza Strip. The BBC first declares the error of it all; how Israel...
The battle lines between Hamas in Gaza and Israel are being drawn. Israel had made the first move by enforcing a blockade on the Gaza strip. Later, the squeeze was tightened. But Israel was wrong if it thought that Gaza would throw out its Hamas...
The people of Gaza are suffering and suffering badly. The latest to raise concerns about the misery of Palestinians living there is Karen Koning AbuZayd of the United Nations Works and Relief Agency.
She is not the only one to do so. Ten human rights...
The war of nerves between the two Palestine factions continues. Fatah has the blessings and resources of both Israel and the US. The Hamas has nothing, except perhaps of purity of its conviction, political guile and the support of most of Palestine...
The metaphorical darkness is all over Gaza and the 1.5 million residents there are being plunged into deeper darkness still. The translation of the metaphorical into the real could begin in no time and apprehension is already running wild among the...
Mordecai Vanunu was an Israeli under-cover agent who blew the whistle on Israel's nuclear programme to the world. He was whisked away from the streets of London in broad day-light by Mossad agents and served a very long term in solitary...
It is a known fact that the root cause of an unstable Mideast lies in the age-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Without any constructive peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians leading to the creation of a separate Palestinian state living...
The festival of Eid el-Fitr is one that is thought to usher in joy and celebration. The Muslim community across the world perceives this festival as one that aids in the consolidation of family ties and fraternity. But ask the desperate and almost...
The Israeli-Palestinian issue has been eating the Middle East for centuries but never before has it attained such a nadir. No solution seems to satisfy both the parties embroiled in the conflict and the students are also getting pulled into the...
Well, a sensational development in the Mideast. Is it? Yes, you read it right. There opens a new window for the Palestinians who remain divided after Hamas' violent takeover of Gaza - a very move that not only divided Hamas and Fatah ideologically but...
The moribund peace process in Mideast and peace talks failing every time to produce laudable results, force people on both sides to think will things ever be in clear light of the day? So, do you think this time it'll be fruitful? Well, every one knows...
Peace talks between Israel and Palestine is like butter extracted in the evening that melts away with the sunrise. Will ongoing Mideast peace talks provide some tangible results thus leading to a two state solution while ending illegal Israeli...
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