Israeli commentators Yaron Friedman, of Ynet News, and Haviv Rettig Gur, of The Times of Israel, are clueless about the driving force behind the Palestinian mobilisation and collective struggle.In two recent articles, and with unmistakable conceit, they attempted to highlight wha

I still remember that smug look on his face, followed by the matter-of-fact remarks that had Western journalists laugh out loud.“I’m now going to show you a picture of the luckiest man in Iraq,” General Norman Schwarzkopf, known as “Stormin” Norman, said at a press conferenc

Writing in the New York Times in the article titled “Myanmar generals set the state for their own exit”, Thomas Fuller expressed his and the media’s failure to recognise the total fraud that is Burmese democracy.“The official results are still being tabulated,” he wrote, “but all

US Secretary of State John Kerry is often perceived as one of the “good ones” — a less hawkish top American official who does not simply promote and defend his country’s military adventurism, but reaches out to others, beyond polarising rhetoric.His unremitting efforts culminated

You may have heard of the famed British author, J.K.

Saeb Erekat is an enigmatic character. Despite minimal popularity among Palestinians, he is omnipresent, appears regularly on television and speaks with the moral authority of an accomplished leader whose legacy is rife with accolades and an astute, unwavering vision.

My first stop, after living for 22 years in a refugee camp in Gaza, was Seattle, a pleasant, green city, where people drink too much coffee to cope with the long, cold, grey winters.There, for the first time, I stood before an audience outside Palestine, to speak about Palestine.

When my book “Searching Jenin” was published, soon after the Israeli massacre in the Jenin refugee camp in 2002, I was quizzed repeatedly by the media and many readers for conferring the word “massacre” on what Israel has depicted as a legitimate battle against camp-based “terror

Syrians from a variety of backgrounds are most likely to offer a different perspective on the war in their country and to hold entirely different expectations than most other parties involved.A resident of Idlib, a villager from Daraa, a housewife, a teacher, a nurse or an unempl