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We Need More Erdogans

Turkey’s Ottoman Empire died an unwept death nearly a century ago. But the country continues to enjoy a unique eminence of leadership across the Middle East and in much of

‘Nuke Gaza’

Israeli officials are right to worry. Gazans too. Yet Americans should worry even more.

Deal or No Deal in Palestine

Washington D.C. The Middle East has a new game to play. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, plagued by internal and external pressure, issued a peace call for the ages during

Haitham Manna’ – From Tutu to Goldstone

On September 2008 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu’s fact-finding delegation submitted to the Human Rights Council its latest report on the Israeli shelling of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip

UNGA to discuss Goldstone report on Wednesday

The UN General Assembly is to hold a session on Wednesday 4/11 to discuss the Goldstone report that was tabled by a UN fact finding mission on Israel's war crimes

Youssef Nada speaks

At the end of September Youssef Nada's name was removed from the United Nations Security Council's terrorism watch list.

Sooner or later justice will prevail: Youssef Nada’s name lifted from terrorist list

The Swiss Foreign Ministry announced that the UN Security Council has at last removed the name of Egyptian businessman Youssef Nada from the list of suspected supporters of terrorism due

Nuclear-armed Israel slams non-nuclear Iran

Hardline Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly Thursday that Iran's alleged quest for nuclear weapons was the greatest danger the world faces, in what observers say

Swedish journalist: Israel stole the organs of more than a 1000 Palestinians

Swedish journalist, Donald Bostrom, said that Israel started the illegal harvesting of organs from Palestinian victims as early as 1960, with a marked increase in this practice during the first

UN: Christian extremist LRA ‘still a threat’

Ugandan Christian extremist rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have been weakened by recent attacks but remain a threat, a UN military source said Thursday.