Abbas’ weakness, like Arafat’s before him in the latter’s last decade of life, has been an infatuation with two elements that are addictive but non-productive: the trappings of power, privilege

Khaled Meshaal, Hamas’s political leader, sounded optimistic as he announced that Hamas would sign the Egyptian reconciliation accord with Fatah and other Palestinian factions in October in an effort to

The political bureau chairman of the Hamas Movement, Khaled Mishaal, is expected to visit Cairo next Sunday at the head of a senior delegation to discuss with the Egyptian leadership

Ismail Haneyya, the Palestinian premier, has described the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip as a crime against humanity, and asked the world community to assume its responsibility towards this

One doesn’t have to be a prophet to predict the outcome, or more correctly failure, of the three-way meeting between President Obama, the Israeli premier Benyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority

Hamas is facing increasing threats from its more extremist and Islamist rivals. Will the rule of Palestinian nationalism hold in Gaza?

The Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya said that Hamas will go for dialogue because it realises the seriousness of the Palestinian issue and that it requires national unity, calling for

Yet, for too many people, Hamas as an organisation remains opaque. What they know about it is derived from a hostile media; it has no face. Most would probably think

MB Chair Mohamed Mahdi Akef will be addressing the nation today, Wednesday, at 1 p.m. on the latest Israeli threats of a new war on Gaza. The address will be

The criminal offensive in Gaza has not ended. Since the Israelis were forced to stop their military offensive without achieving any of their goals, a few military harassments here and