Lawrence Davidson explains why the US-sponsored direct talks between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, due to start on 2 September, are most unlikely to result in anything that is

Chairman of the German Bundestag's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Ruprecht Polenz, argues in favour of Turkish accession to the EU, and grapples with negative western perceptions of the nation, as

Stuart Littlewood reviews Norman Finkelstein’s book, This Time We Went Too Far, which “pulls together the facts surrounding Israel's blitzkrieg on Gaza” and “plots the long lead-up and the reverberating

wenty non-governmental organizations in Europe have urged the European Union to break the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip for the fourth consecutive year and not only alleviate it.

Five years after Israel's unilateral disengagement from Gaza, Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has proposed a new plan aimed at ridding Israel of any responsibility for the coastal enclave, the

Hamas -- a noun meaning "zeal," and an acronym for the "Islamic Resistance Movement" -- is a word that inspires a tremor of anxiety in most westerners.

The European Union's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy Catherine Ashton said she intends to visit the besieged Gaza Strip in the coming days ahead of the intended

Dr. Hamdi Hassan, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc, criticized the Egyptian foreign ministery's handling of Khaled's Saeed's case,, after it summoned the EU ambassadors in protest of

Ikhwanweb received reports concerning the Sidi Gaber Prosecution's stating that it will conduct a trial for the plainclothes policemen who were involved in the killing of Khaled Saed.

Gilad Atzmon argues that Israel’s murder in international waters of aid workers bound for Gaza was a premeditated act of savagery and that the international community, foremost NATO and the