Middle East

The first stage of the ceasefire has come to an end, and once again, we are being threatened with the resumption of violence and devastation. As the loss and suffering deepen, we are reminded that true peace cannot be found…

US President Donald Trump surprised the region last month by suggesting that the nearly 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza be resettled in other countries, including Egypt and Jordan. Trump proposed that the United States assume ownership of the Gaza…

Itamar Greenberg was released  after spending 197 days in prison—the longest imprisonment for an objector in two decades. The Israeli army determined he had displayed “bad behavior.” He first refused to serve in August 2024 and was subsequently sentenced to…

Regardless of how geostrategically important the relationship is between the Arab states and the US, the former must demonstrate unanimous resolve to oppose Trump’s and Netanyahu’s disastrous plans to take over Gaza and exile the Indigenous Palestinians. Given Egypt’s desire…

We publish a Press Release from Combatants for Peace that is reaching out with deep concern over a dangerous new legislative development that threatens this organization as well as other peace and human rights organizations in Israel. The Israeli government’s…

96 American special forces are patrolling a checkpoint in the middle of Gaza, as Palestinians return to their homes in the north. If the history of American mercenaries tells us anything, then this could be deadly. By Nuvpreet Kalra Armed…

Today, in that renowned citadel of freedom of expression and freedom of the press that was once the UK, if you profess your support for the Palestinian resistance you can be arrested and imprisoned, your mobile phone and PC confiscated…

Even after Trump declared that he wanted to take back the Panama Canal, acquire Greenland by force, if necessary, and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, I could not, like many others, imagine that his madness…

Israel and Palestine: a conflict, a colonial occupation, a racist apartheid system, and an “incremental genocide” that has lasted some 80 years and has resumed more violently than before after October 7, 2023. What political solution today for Palestine? We…

How do we put into words how we feel? It’s hard and painful, but we felt that it was important to try. This ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is long overdue. This brutal war has cost us a price no…