by Yvonne Ridley

The influential pro-Israel lobby in America was reeling last night after it emerged that the US government may halt the $735 million sale of precision-guided missiles to Israel. US politicians, normally supportive of the Zionist state, are divided about giving their usual approval to such a deal.

by Motasem A Dalloul

The Israeli occupation army — the so-called Israel Defence Forces (IDF) — has been bombarding the besieged Gaza Strip in an attempt to destroy the infrastructure of the Palestinian resistance movements which responded to the brutal Israeli aggression against the Palestinian worshippers in Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque, and the proposed dispossession of Palestinian families from Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.

by Ghufrane Daymi

Over the past week, Jerusalem and occupied Palestine have once again seen popular collective action, an almost spontaneous reaction to the repeated injustices and oppression amid the evictions in Sheikh Jarrah. Yet, within the midst of all the violence and chaos, a rather subtle, yet devious, narrative arises from Israel and its ally, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

by Iqbal Jassat

In a dramatic escalation representative of global outrage against Israel's tsunami of crimes against the people of occupied Palestine, New York-based Human Rights Watch has released a detailed legal report declaring that the Israeli government is committing crimes of apartheid. The serious charge of apartheid is groundbreaking, because it is the first official use of the term by the rights group.

Based on Editorial in Le Mode - a French news paper

Every day, 350,000 new infections and more than 2,000 deaths are recorded in the country. A situation due to the unpredictability of the virus but also to the lack of anticipation, arrogance and demagogy of the Indian Prime Minister.

Presented as the "pharmacy of the world", the country exported and offered millions of doses of vaccine, ensuring that it produced enough for its population to be protected. Three months later, the Indian "example" gave way to a nightmare.

by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh

It is said that history is written by the victors, but when do they write it? In the heat of the moment while the witnesses are still alive? Or after they have died?

by Yvonne Ridley

The hypocrisy of one of Europe's leading Islamophobes, French President Emmanuel Macron, appears to be without limits with his call for all mercenaries to quit Libya in a bid to help the fledgling Government of National Unity (GNU). Many of the mercenaries were sent there by France in the first place; now they are likely to head for Chad to shore up the new military government and protect French interests in Libya's southern neighbour.

by Halima Ben Nasr

Tunisia is currently witnessing a prolonged political stalemate amid increasing tension and fear for the country's future and democratic ideals in the Arab world.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The United States should stop operating double standard in its geopolitical policies and attempting to seek regime changes in the Middle East, said an opinion piece in a Malaysian media outlet.

"Geopolitics as practiced by superpowers is packed with double standards. And the United States has more than a fair share of them," the article titled "American democracy drivel" in the New Straits Times said on Sunday.

America's double-standard shows up in the Middle East, "otherwise known as a built-for-Israel playground," it wrote.

by Yvonne Ridley

The war in Afghanistan has been called the most pointless conflict of all time. It is probably the most disastrous military venture launched by the US, Britain and their allies in the past 100 years. The Taliban, though, will be celebrating what they see as a historic victory when NATO forces quit Afghanistan in September. We have to remember that not everyone views the 20-year conflict through a western lens.

by Muhammad Hussein

Turkey has been criticised heavily over the past few years for what some see as a series of foreign policy blunders, from its military intervention in northern Syria to its assertiveness before the US and Europe. Now, though, it may have taken a very firm stance that could alter its fortunes and reputation on the international stage.

by Professor Kamel Hawwash

On 5 February, Palestinians saw a long tunnel open and a light flicker in the distance for justice. The International Criminal Court (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber I "decided, by majority, that the Court's territorial jurisdiction in the Situation in Palestine, a State party to the ICC Rome Statute, extends to the territories occupied by Israel since 1967."