By Nardine Ali (Cairo/Egypt) Cairo has recently signalled intensifying interest in negotiations between Israel-Palestine, a potential indication of the country’s desire to restore its historic role as the broker of the 73-year old conflict. On January 18, Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah Al Sisi headed to the Jordanian capital Amman to meet with King Abdullah II. A series of meetings were ...
The “normalization” agreements signed between Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain at an official ceremony hosted by US President Donald Trump at the White House continue to be discussed. While the normalization agreements were signed, the 3 countries also jointly signed the text called “Abraham Accords”. Reactions from the countries of the region, especially from the Palestinian administration, ...
The World Anti-Imperialist Youth Union (WAYU) is an international youth platform established by 23 youth organizations from 12 countries in Istanbul on 29th October 2014. It aims to unite all the youth of the world under the same roof of anti-imperialism regardless of any differences. The below statement is the joint youth declaration on the new world after COVID-19 pandemic, ...
The Palestinian Ambassador to Turkey, Faed Mustafa, stated that Palestine was ready to make the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) agreement with Turkey. Answering the questions asked by İsmet Özçelik from the journal Aydınlık, Mustafa assessed the developments in the Eastern Mediterranean. Stating that the Palestinian state has the rights to oil and natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Ambassador ...
As the American edition of Axios reports this week, the head of the State Department Michael Pompeo, adviser to the president on national security Robert O’Brien, the senior adviser and the son-in-law of the head of the American state Jared Kushner and Ambassador of the USA in Israel David Friedman are supposed to meet with Donald Trump to discuss Israel’s ...
A new Israeli government has been created at last, albeit mostly made up of the old one: the country’s leadership is currently split between Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu and The Blue and White’s Benny Gantz, a government sure to have its points of strength as well as serious weaknesses. Above all it came as a compromise to avert a fourth general election, ...
The state of Israel, which has been isolating itself and struggling with the political crises during the pandemic, has been blockading the Palestinians living in occupied Jerusalem from prevention and treatment services. The director of the National Coalition for the Human Rights in Jerusalem Zekeriyya Avde says that Israel had not done any Covid-19 tests on the Palestinians living in ...
73 years after the UN resolution 181 on the partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jewish settlers, the Palestinian question seems to be facing two paradoxical fates, resolution, or movement into a new bloody turmoil. The so called “Deal of the Century” presented by US President Donald Trump purports to be a solution to the question of coexistence. The solution ...
The recent announcement of his “Deal of the Century”, a unilateral “solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is nothing more than a statement of American approval for Israeli leadership of the Arab world. The maps, borders and political features were all designed after the First World War. The deal also suggests a permanent adjustment of the centuries old political borders of ...
US President Donald Trump finally unveiled his “deal of the century,” a plan which he claims will help resolve the “eternal conflict” between Israel and Palestine by dividing them into two separate states. As the details of the deal will make apparent, the opinion of the Palestinians was not taken into account in the creation of the agreement. Trump’s plan ...