Empirical historical evidence and a little common sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual apartheid or ethnic cleansing, or a mix of both.The passing of the “Regularisation bill” on February 6 is all we

I fear that many of us hate Donald Trump for the wrong reasons.Multitudes are being swayed by mainstream media-inspired demonisation of the new US president, based on selective assumptions and half-truths.US mainstream media, which rarely deviate from supporting the American

US President Donald Trump promises to be pro-Israel in every aspect.“I’m the best thing that could ever happen to Israel,” he boasted at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Presidential Forum in Washington DC in December 2015. For a brief moment, Trump appeared as if

No, it was not just “another Middle East peace conference”, as a columnist in the Israeli Jerusalem Post attempted to depict the Paris Peace Conference held on January 15, with top official representations from 70 countries attending.If it had been, indeed, just “another peace co

For some, the manslaughter conviction — following the murder by Israeli army medic Elor Azaria of already incapacitated Palestinian man Fattah Al Sharif — is finally settling a protracted debate regarding where Israelis stand on Palestinian human rights.Nearly 70 per cent of the

Long before December 28, when US Secretary of State John Kerry took the podium at the Dean Acheson Auditorium in Washington, DC, to pontificate on the uncertain future of the two-state solution and the need to save Israel from itself, the subject of a Palestinian state had been p

Israel is dizzy.

There is no doubt that the UN Security Council condemnation of Israel on December 23 was an important and noteworthy event.True, the United Nations’ main chambers (the Security Council and the General Assembly) and its various institutions, ranging from the International Court of

The British government of Theresa May officially adopted on December 12 a new definition of anti-Semitism that includes legitimate criticism of Israel.The definition was adopted earlier in the year by a pro-Israel group, IHRA, although it had been considered but abandoned by