By Roberto Savio* – Other News The creation of a Palestinian State remains a pipe-dream After the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI, The League of Nations mandated that Britain administer Palestine. The London administration was quite ineffective, in part, due to the…
By Raja Shehadeh – The Guardian Israel has twisted its laws and contorted its politics to protect the occupation. The UAE and Bahrain deals won’t create peace More than a quarter of a century after Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn, Israel…
By Marshall Auerback and James Carden (*) Independent Media Institute Trump’s rise has led to unity in the ranks opposing his foreign policy The emergence in recent weeks of a coalition of neocon Republicans and former national security officials who have…
Observer Editorial Last week’s agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the UAE does nothing to solve the Palestine impasse The principal authors of last week’s agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates – Donald Trump, Benjamin…
By Jonathan Freedland* – The Guardian Netanyahu may have agreed to halt annexation of parts of the West Bank, but the UAE has ensured the occupation itself is normalised Who could be against an announcement of peace between two nations formally at war? Who could possibly object…
By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the capital and is now…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The British recently finished building two new aircraft carriers, the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales. Last week, Britain announced that one of the carriers would be based in the Pacific.
By Sam Bahour* – The Guardian It won’t halt Israel’s annexation plans, but it would be a vital step in the right direction at a perilous moment Israel’s annexation of the West Bank will be yet another tragedy for Palestinians In January, when the Trump administration formally…
Editorial Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans will compound the suffering of Palestinians. International condemnation should be accompanied by consequences Annexation looks like the executioner of the two-state solution. Israel has changed the facts on the ground, with the rapid…
The Economist The border affray is a sign of worrying military escalation between Asia’s giants THE TWO armies each had guns, artillery and tanks to the rear. But they wielded only sticks and stones at the front, as night fell on June 15th.
