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For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel’s illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on...

Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at the White House in September 1993. The goal was reaffirmed in 2011 when 90 percent of the Senate...

Dozens of Palestinians from Gaza remain imprisoned after completing their sentences, with at least seven more expected to face the same fate by the end of the year, a Palestinian prisoners' rights expert has told The New Arab. Riyad al-Ashqar, director...

Iran has asked Yemen’s Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route if the United States strikes Iranian power infrastructure, three sources told Reuters on Thursday. The idea has been discussed within the Islamic Republic's leadership, and...

Ramallah, Occupied West Bank / PNN / Palestinian prisoners' organizations announced Tuesday the launch of an international campaign aimed at ending sexual violence against Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli prisons, saying such abuses constitute a systematic policy that requires urgent...

For nearly two years, Um Mohammed, a Palestinian woman from Khan Younis City in the southern war-torn coastal enclave , dreamed of the day she would return to Gaza. The elderly Palestinian had travelled to Egypt for medical treatment, spending months...

Morocco has signed an agreement to join the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) in Gaza , becoming the latest state to back a controversial US-led security blueprint that still lacks Palestinian consent and the conditions for deployment on the ground. Morocco signed...

Frieden schaffen wir nicht durch noch mehr Waffen und Kriege, sondern durch Abrüstung, Annäherung, Austausch und den Verzicht auf unipolare Machtansprüche. Um zu verstehen, in welcher dramatischen nationalen und internationalen Lage wir uns befinden, ist es wichtig, die westliche Kriegs- und Aufrüstungsbereitschaft,...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the launch of the preliminary report from the UN Independent Panel on AI. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 2026 (IPS) As the international community continues to weigh the good, the bad and...

On 17 June 2026, the European Parliament approved new EU-wide rules aimed at speeding up the return of "non-EU nationals who no longer have the right to remain in the bloc." Passing with 418 votes in favour, 218 against, and 30...

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to block an amendment to the National Security and State Department appropriations bill that would have struck $3.3 billion in aid to Israel. The amendment, introduced by outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), was never expected...

Kamala Harris’s reported outreach to pro-Palestinian activists should not be mistaken for moral courage. It is not a late conversion born of the ruins of Gaza, nor an act of repentance for the Biden administration’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war....

The world’s eyes will be on Lionel Messi on Wednesday night, as Argentina face England in the World Cup semi-final. The diminutive superstar has gained a massive following across the planet, not least in Israel, thanks to his numerous business...

A coalition of 17 UK charities has urged incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham to impose sanctions on Israel and end UK complicity in Israeli violations of international law, with campaigners telling The New Arab that Palestinians are paying the price...

Israel's approval of more than 2.3 billion shekels ($790 million) for illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank marks a shift from politically approving settlements to directly financing their establishment on Palestinian land, Palestinian officials told The New Arab ,...

The senator represented my state in Congress for three decades. This is what I saw. By Jack Hunter Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died unexpectedly on Saturday at the age of 71. I...

Nigel Farage is the most consequential British politician of the 21st century. Certainly a more important historic figure than any of the last eight Prime Ministers. Tony Blair is the only realistic rival. By Craig Murray Join us on Telegram , X...

When Israel occupied southern Lebanon between 1982 and 2000, maintaining control meant thousands of soldiers stationed inside the territory, with reinforced military outposts and daily clashes with fighters from a newly founded Hezbollah waging a guerrilla insurgency. Nearly three decades later,...

Four announcements were made on Monday, 13 July. Read together, they are the European Union's Palestine policy, complete. In Brussels, the Foreign Affairs Council — the first under Ireland's new presidency of the Council — spent its Middle East session on...

Mahmoud Khalil and his legal team have announced a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump and private organisations alleging a conspiracy to suppress pro-Palestinian speech, a move that could be an important case at a time of severe government crackdowns...

Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip have intensified in recent days, with homes, displacement camps , markets and public roads coming under near-daily attack, as residents and political analysts warn that the expanding military campaign is steadily shrinking the...

Bethlehem /PNN/ A new public opinion poll has found that the Palestinian clearance revenue crisis has expanded beyond public finances to become a widespread cost-of-living emergency, affecting household incomes, purchasing power and debt levels, while raising concerns over deeper economic fallout...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close "all other export corridors that benefit the US and its allies", Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz and the US reimposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports. "Regional...

On 26 June 2026, Ibrahim Traoré , hailed as Africa's anti-imperialist hero, issued France an ultimatum to close its embassy in Ouagadougou, accusing Paris of "blatant neocolonial ambitions." Concurrently, he received the credentials of Israel's ambassador pledging to deepen bilateral cooperation...

The Abraham Accords sought to succeed where decades of negotiations had failed. By separating Arab normalization with Israel from the Palestinian issue, the effort bypassed the core concept of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which explicitly tied the normalization to...

PEN America has insisted it continues to defend Palestinian writers and regards Israel's actions in Gaza as "a genocide", after its outgoing president accused the organisation of sidelining Palestinians and resigned in protest, the organisation told The New Arab on...

Restoring some semblance of a moral core to the Labour Party won’t be easy, but is politically necessary for Andy Burnham. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and...

GAZA, (PIC) When a residential apartment is reduced to rubble within minutes, and when a doctor leaves an operating room only to find the hospital itself under threat, the issue is no longer about abstract numbers or “collateral damage.” Israel’s assault on...

As the United States marks 250 years since its founding as an anti-colonial republic, its global power and democratic system are facing a profound crisis, according to Khalil Jahshan, executive director of Arab Center Washington DC. In an interview conducted byThe...

England captain Harry Kane has displayed a "clear double standard" by speaking out on Qatar before the 2022 World Cup while warmly discussing Donald Trump and remaining silent on controversies surrounding this year's tournament, British-Palestinian commentator Hamza Yusuf told The...

BEIRUT, (PIC) Anxiety inside Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps is no longer limited to shrinking healthcare and education services provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). As calls to sideline or replace the agency intensify, refugees are...

The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . The recent swathe of electoral victories by the Democratic Socialists of America has provoked a predictably delicious meltdown throughout the political establishment. James Carville is apoplectic . Centrist Democrats are suddenly...

Political sources and others close to the Iraqi government said to The New Arab on Tuesday, 14 July, that the US administration is seriously pushing a plan to strip Iran-backed Iraqi armed factions of drones and advanced long-range missiles with...

LONDON, (PIC) The Red Ribbons Campaign for the Release of Palestinian Hostages and Prisoners held in Israeli prisons has renewed its urgent call on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to take immediate humanitarian action to ensure the practical...

There are, and perhaps always have been, two American republics. The first declared that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed". This US Republic, founded through revolutionary war in 1776 by "enlightened Englishmen", defined itself against kings,...