Just when he thought he had the biggest weapon in the world, US President Donald Trump was trumped by Russia, which apparently has a bigger one.
This was just after Trump thought he had proved the point by dropping a nine-metre, 9,500kg bomb on (...)
The injustice in the trial of Israeli soldier Elor Azaria begins with the charge – manslaughter.
In March 2016, Azaria walked up to the body of a severely wounded Palestinian, Abdel-Fattah Al-Sherif, and shot him in the head as he lay on the ground. (...)
Is Democratic Party US presidential elections candidate Hillary Clinton a nasty person? Yes, probably, seeing as she meets many of the definitions of nasty.
Is Hillary Clinton a woman? Yes. So it seems reasonable to call her a “nasty woman,” but (...)
The massacre of 106 Syrian soldiers in a US-led air attack brings the Middle East and the world closer to the edge of chaos. If Syria can be torn apart, why not your country, or mine? If Syrians can be killed so brutally, so casually, so (...)
For refusing to shake hands with the Israeli who had just defeated him, Egyptian Olympic judoka Islam Al-Shehady was booed by the audience and reprimanded before being sent home by the International Olympic Committee. Headlines spoke of “outrage” at (...)
As the Syrian army advances on Raqqa and seals off supply routes to the armed gangs inside Aleppo, it is no surprise that there has been another spike in the propaganda war, this time directed against Russia.
Frustration and anger is driving Turkish (...)
Sometimes it must be such fun to be an Israeli undercover agent, especially if you like amateur theatricals and perhaps thought of an acting career but were not quite good enough and had to settle for something less. You get drama and excitement (...)
Let us be crystal clear about this. The road to the attacks in Paris began with the invasion of Iraq. It ran through the destruction of Libya and the attempted destruction of Syria.
One of the principal architects of the destruction of Libya and the (...)
In the late mediaeval period, “pale” was the word used by the English to describe their colony in Ireland. They lived within the “pale” (from the Latin palus), a line of settlement bounded by castles and fortresses. Beyond the pale lived the (...)
“We need to return to the basic truth of our rights to this country. This land is ours. All of it is ours. We did not come here to apologise for that.” Thus spoke the deputy foreign affairs minister of the Zionist settler state, a woman called Tzipi (...)
In the Middle East and Africa there are two striking parallels to the Palestinian experience. The first is Algeria, where invasion and occupation began in 1830 and did not end until 1962.
Until the implantation of the Zionist state in Palestine, (...)
The connections between the body of the small boy washed up on the beach at Bodrum in Turkey, the destruction at Palmyra in Syria, and the hundreds of Libyans drowning in the same Mediterranean Sea that the parents of the poor drowned boy were (...)
The next time Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks to the media, perhaps he should be asked precisely where the Turkish national interest lies in the destruction of Syria.
In the name of bringing down the government in Damascus, Syria is (...)
The US has just about shot its bolt in the Middle East. It is playing its own game to the detriment of the entire region. While it is ultimately responsible for creating this unholy mess, someone else is needed to take the lead in cleaning it up — (...)
The Sykes-Picot Agreement was the post-First World War agreement by which Britain and France divided the conquered Arab lands of the former Ottoman Empire between themselves.
The precise boundaries were fixed after the war. France wanted a large (...)
So finally the US gets what it wants: a war on Syria. But should it be a war in Syria? Either way, this is another US-led attack that violates international law and, without the consent of Congress, probably domestic law as well. Syria has warned (...)
Zeev Sternhell is an Israeli academic who describes himself as a “super Zionist” but one who still argues strongly for a two-state settlement with the Palestinians. In a recent interview with Israeli journalist Gidi Weitz, published in the newspaper (...)
The “birth pangs” of which former US national security advisor Condoleeza Rice spoke in 2006 during Israel's onslaught on Lebanon have finally produced her “new” Middle East, wrapped up in the black flag of the Islamic State. Impregnation was just a (...)
Israel's shocking war on Gaza has done more than any of its previous onslaughts to shake loose the stranglehold its lobbyists have exerted over the mainstream media. Criticism that would never have been countenanced before is now seeing the light of (...)
Nearly four decades ago, determined to win a war the US was losing in Vietnam, the then US president Richard Nixon and secretary of state Henry Kissinger paved the way for the rise of the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot and the inception of the group's (...)
The latest evidence of a chemical weapons attack in Syria has emerged in the form of a video proudly filmed by the perpetrators themselves, the so-called “lions” of Jabhat Al-Nusrah, Al-Qaida's Syrian franchise, listed by the US as a terrorist (...)
Turkey is in a turbulent and uncertain state. Street demonstrations are crushed with tear gas and water cannon. Protesters are killed without one policeman being convicted. A 15-year-old boy who died 269 days after being hit in the head by a tear (...)
A racist ideology gives birth to a racist state. Founded on territory belonging to another people, it strips them of their possessions and drives them away. It buries the ruins of their villages and cemeteries beneath thick forests of pine trees, (...)
Catastrophic for Syria and disastrous for Turkey — the consequences of Turkey's intervention in Syria over the past two years can be summed up in this way. While not admitting that they were wrong, the architects of this policy, Turkish Prime (...)
Until joined by the Islamic government in Iran in 1979 and then by Hizbullah in the 1980s, Syria was Israel's most visceral enemy. This enemy is now being destroyed but not by Israel. So-called Muslims backed by so-called Muslim governments — Saudi (...)