With Abbas’ state visit to China this week, M.K. Bhadrakumar says Beijing’s mediation on the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement lends credibility to a Chinese initiative on the Palestine issue.
Palestine Is Ripe for Chinese Mediation
Category: Israel
WATCH: The Palestine Laboratory & Surveillance Capitalism
Israel uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology they then export around the world to despots and democracies, says journalist Antony Lowenstein.
The Israeli Company Hacking Locked Mobile Phones
The use of military grade spyware by Australian government departments means the most personal data stored on mobile phones is no longer secret, writes Antony Lowenstein.
Blinken’s Failed Saudi Visit
Developments during Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to Saudi Arabia fit with growing speculations about the Gulf Cooperation Council becoming more autonomous of the U.S., writes Abdul Rahman.
Netanyahu Promoting Armed Intifada in West Bank
By satisfying an extremist religious constituency, Ramzy Baroud says the prime minister is turning Israel into a country with leaders determined to institute a religious war.
Israeli Forces, Settlers Invade Palestinian Community
The escalation of attacks on Masafer Yatta in the West Bank comes after the Israeli Supreme Court named the area an Israeli army “firing zone” from which villagers can be expelled.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Soros in the Arab World
Imagine if a Chinese billionaire were funding a political message in Western societies the way Open Society is doing in Arab countries.
Netanyahu Pays for Ditching Democrats
The Israeli leader made a major miscalculation by turning against the Democratic Party and allying his country entirely with Republicans, writes Ramzy Baroud.
China & the Axis of the Sanctioned
The decline in U.S. diplomatic influence in the Middle East reflects not just Chinese initiatives, writes Juan Cole, but Washington’s incompetence, arrogance and double-dealing over three decades in the region.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: The Sorry Legacy of Arab Communism
The problem started in 1947 with their support for the Soviet-backed partition plan for Palestine. Later, in opposing Arab unity under Nasser, Arab communists placed themselves in the camp of Western imperialism.