While the Egyptian pound was devalued officially months ago, talk has surfaced about further devaluations or a full-fledged currency flotation that leaves it at the mercy of both the regular and black markets.
Ambiguity launched a frenzied rush to (...)
China, the world's largest economy, has become an economic model in modern times, having achieved its tremendous economic growth through tapping its material and human resources rather than occupation, dominance and looting of other countries, as (...)
With the political settlement process and the Israeli occupation at a standstill, the Palestinian accord government called for local elections in October. Hamas subsequently agreed to hold the elections in the Gaza Strip, raising Palestinian hopes (...)
As BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanctions) and other international movements to censure Israel are gaining ground across the world and reaping important effects at the economic, cultural and academic levels, a group of countries, led by the US and some (...)
France will host a preparatory meeting on 3 June for the international conference to jumpstart the stalled peace process between Palestinians and Israel. The meeting will bring together 26 state representatives, including US Secretary of State John (...)
Hamas and its military wing, the Qassam Brigades, have warned that their patience with the Israeli siege on Gaza, now in its tenth year, is wearing thin. This raises questions about the next step Palestinian authorities will take amid the worsening (...)
Since the Israeli war on Gaza in summer 2014, a slow-burning war has been underway between the Israeli occupation authorities and Hamas over missing or detained Israelis held by the Islamist movement, which controls the Gaza Strip.
As the second (...)
In recent months, France has redoubled efforts to organise an international conference for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks based on the two-state solution, even as the peace process appears comatose following the failure of the (...)
During a meeting in Doha on 8 February, Fatah and Hamas delegations reached a “working understanding” of the reconciliation agreements to be implemented in a concrete timeframe that is now being hammered out. The two delegations are expected to meet (...)
Recently, Israel stepped up threats of new military operations against the Gaza Strip, as politicians, both pro-government and opposition, as well as Hebrew-language media, appear to be exaggerating the military capabilities of Hamas.
They mostly (...)
Ten years have passed since Israel put the 365-square-kilometre Gaza Strip under siege. Nearly two million Palestinians have suffered in this narrow coastal stretch of land on the Mediterranean Sea from catastrophic and tragic economic and (...)
Debate has once again erupted about the prospects of the PA remaining in power. In mid-2014, there were threats to hand over the keys to the Palestinian Authority (PA) to the Israeli occupation. More recently, there have been confirmations that the (...)
For four months now, Palestinians in Jerusalem have taken the lead in what has been called the “silent intifada”, or even the “stabbing intifada.” So far, there have been hit-and-run car attacks and stabbings by individuals acting on their own (...)
The escalating mass furore in the West Bank and Jerusalem has reached the Gaza Strip and inside the Green Line (1948 territories), triggering predictions of the start of a massive third Intifada, similar to the Stone Intifada in 1987 and Al-Aqsa (...)
Al-Aqsa Mosque is under unprecedented vicious attack by the Israeli occupation since 13 September until today, culminating in a series of raids, assaults and restrictions against Palestinian male, female and child worshippers, Al-Aqsa guards, and (...)
The decision by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to raise the Palestinian flag outside UN headquarters in New York, Geneva and Vienna is a victory for Palestinians in their intense diplomatic campaign for recognition of their state.
The decision was (...)
The Palestinian National Council (PNC) will meet in Ramallah 14-15 September to elect the Palestine Liberation Organisation's (PLO) new Executive Committee (EC), amid quarrels between factions over the vote and talk about Palestinian President (...)
The resignation of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), alongside with nine other members, calling for an extraordinary meeting of the Palestinian National Council (...)
Only some toys and pictures are a reminder that a once happy family lived here. All that is left of the house of the Dawabsha home, firebombed early Friday, 31 July, is charred wall and ashes. But among the ashes there is a picture of Ali, the (...)
Since the end of the war on Gaza last summer, another battle has been underway, sometimes in public and at other times discreetly. Namely, a battle of “nail biting” between Israel's occupation forces and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) about (...)
The deal between Iran and the P5+1 added a heightened level of agitation to Israel's normally fractious politics. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, pledging to fight it in the US Congress, labelled the deal a mistake of “historic proportions.”
For (...)
A year after Fatah and Hamas, the two main Palestinian factions, decided to form a government of national accord, little has been achieved by way of uniting Palestinian ranks, reconstructing Gaza or formulating a common strategy for statehood.
The (...)
As the campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) gains momentum, Israel is starting to feel the pinch. The Israeli government is allocating millions of dollars to discredit the BDS and its supporters.
BDS was launched in the Palestinian (...)
The accusation is now familiar. Israel, the Palestinians claim, wants to end the life of UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. In doing so, it is hoping to end the question of refugees that had brought it (...)
In recent months, the EU started a new bid to revive talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians, which last came to a halt after the failure of US-sponsored negotiations in April 2014.
Senior European officials, including Federika Mogherini, (...)