Israel is a very special country. Its history is like no other. Maybe that's why its civil war, which is well underway, is almost indistinguishable to the untrained eye from a stable country. Upon closer inspection, Israel is a powder keg already in (...)
The starting point to understanding today's reality in Palestine is as crystal clear now as it always has been. Over four million Palestinians are approaching their 50th year of living under Israeli military occupation. It should be noted that these (...)
“Give me liberty, or give me death!” Patrick Henry declared in a speech at the Virginia Convention in 1775. Fast-forward 240 years and if Israel and the US were able to pin those words to a Palestinian, they would decry incitement in a (...)
I have had enough of those Palestinians. I think the world in general is also fed up with the Palestinians. They have gone too far in demonising the Israelis and must be stopped. The international community must act now before it is too late and (...)
Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip use the Israeli currency, the New Israeli Shekel (NIS), for their daily business. However, as the peace negotiation efforts of US Secretary of (...)
Suppose the US Secretary of State John Kerry fails to cajole Israeli and Palestinian leaders into finally ending their conflict. What would happen next?
A tsunami of pent-up animosities is likely to be unleashed, with each side holding the other (...)
The first proclaimed leak from US Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as it is so often called, were published last week in the reputable London-based daily Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat.
The source is (...)
US Secretary of State John Kerry is making an all-out effort to restart peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine. Many well-intentioned, highly intelligent people from around the world have engaged in some way, shape or form in the (...)
Though living under Israeli military occupation, the Palestinians are keeping their memories and culture alive, writes Sam Bahour in Al-Bireh
Those damn Palestinians. They refuse to sit still. They just don't get it. They are unable to fathom their (...)
Israel and the United States have perfected, almost to a science, the management of international players who dare to intervene in trying to advance peace in the Middle East between Palestinians and Israelis. The most recent political configuration (...)
With initiatives proliferating to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the international community is forgetting that we have been here before, says Sam Bahour*
For anyone closely following the Palestinian-Israeli issue, nothing is more (...)
Current events in Egypt and Tunisia have the entire region and beyond glued to their television sets. The all-too-spoken-about Arab street has risen, seemingly from the dead. But while it is satisfying to see a dictatorial head of state being ousted (...)
RAMALLAH and JERUSALEM: The latest rift between the United States and Israel, which began with the Israeli announcement of more construction planned for Ramat Shlomo – a Jewish-only neighborhood that would further separate East Jerusalem from the (...)
RAMALLAH/JERUSALEM: The latest rift between the United States and Israel, which began with the Israeli announcement of more construction planned for Ramat Shlomo - a Jewish-only neighborhood that would further separate East Jerusalem from the rest (...)
Without addressing the stranglehold of the Israel lobby in Washington, Obama cannot hope to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even if he wanted to, writes Sam Bahour*
We are told that President Barack Obama has taken a leap of political (...)
RAMALLAH: At long last a spotlight is shining on Palestinian nonviolent efforts to throw off the Israeli occupation. A visit by a group of high profile "Elders last month to the Palestinian village of Bil'in in the West Bank, and the barrier running (...)
The allies of Israel like to think that the Palestinians are backed against a wall. They are gravely mistaken, again, writes Sam Bahour*
Palestinians have been historically outmanoeuvred, politically neutralised, and made totally dependant on (...)
One of Palestine s many bittersweet economic achievements since the Oslo peace accords is the establishment of the Palestine Securities Exchange. Based in the troubled northern West Bank city of Nablus, the exchange shares the reality of a brutal (...)