Four! Four is the number of violent West Bank Israeli settlers the Biden administration has decided to sanction. Most Western press headlines do not make this clear. Instead, they say, "The US sanctions Israeli settlers".

The United States has long called itself the “indispensable nation” to justify its claim to global leadership.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear that as long as he is in office there will be no “two-state solution,” no emergence of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

By bombing Houthi strategic sites in north Yemen, the US and UK have abruptly escalated the confrontation between the Arabs and the West over Israel’s Gaza war.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to hold public hearings today and tomorrow on an urgent case submitted by South Africa charging Israel with the crime of genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza.

It is hardly surprising that Israel should announce on New Year’s Eve that the war on Gaza will continue throughout 2024. This is bad news for 2.3 million Palestinians who dwell there, the Palestinian people as a whole, the region and the world.

Following the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution on Gaza last Week, UAE Ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh eloquently summed up the situation by saying that the Arabs had to cope with the “world we live in rather than the world we want to be”.

Israel's Gaza war and West Bank raids have stolen Bethlehem's Christmas celebrations this year. The little hill town where Jesus was born in a stable 2,000 years ago has grown dark this season.

While claiming to support Israel's "right to defend itself" the Biden administration's political protection and arming of Israel during its cruel and devastating war on Gaza is, in reality, backing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's desperate drive to remain in office.Last week,