In line with the demographic goals of the Zionist occupation state, the recently announced Trump deal includes a clause to move the Triangle region in northern Palestine occupied since 1948, to be under the authority of the Palestinian Authority. This will break the concentration of Israeli-Arab citizens in this area ... Read More »
In Lebanon, default is ‘virtually certain’ after stark credit downgrades
Investors holding Lebanese bonds are expecting the worst, as years of financial mismanagement may well push the country to default on its debt for the first time in its history. International Monetary Fund officials have been called in to help find a solution to manage Lebanon’s overwhelming debt — some ... Read More »
Israel’s settlement annexation is another step to liquidate the Palestinian cause
Israel and its allies in Washington view the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem as the focal points for the implementation of the deal of the century, which aims to liquidate the Palestinian cause. Hence, the process has already started there, with the maps prepared which show the settlements under full ... Read More »
Breaking with Washington: Arabs and Muslims must take a stand for Palestine
A negotiated solution to the ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’, at least the way envisaged by successive US administrations, has failed. Now, Palestinians and their allies would have to explore a whole new path of liberation that does not go through Washington. It is easy to place all the blame on the current ... Read More »
The Daily Star temporarily suspends print edition
The Daily Star BEIRUT: Lebanon’s English-language newspaper The Daily Star regrets to announce the temporary suspension of its print edition due to the financial challenges facing the Lebanese press which have been exacerbated by the deterioration of the economic situation in the country. The Daily Star’s website – http://www.dailystar.com.lb – ... Read More »
US-Iran prisoner exchange sees thaw in tensions as domestic chaos takes centre stage
Iran and the United States appear to be easing tensions as both countries head into political volatile election years, with the threat of an armed conflict that seemed increasingly likely just months ago fading away. A weekend exchange of detainees between Iran and the United States brokered by diplomats indicated ... Read More »
How Western media dehumanization of Palestinians allows Israel to get away with murder in Gaza
An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because it factors neatly in Israel’s contentious political scene. The war was not a question of “if”, but “when”. The answer came ... Read More »
‘He threw them under a bus’: US allies in Middle East fear abandonment after Trump’s betrayal of Kurds
The shock waves from Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that US troops in northern Syria would step aside and allow a Turkish offensive to obliterate its long-term Kurdish partners rippled out of Washington and shook America’s allies across the region. From Israel to the Gulf, officials, diplomats and commentators expressed fears – in private and ... Read More »
Donald Trump Trump in North Korea: history as farce first time round
The president stepped over the DMZ to meet his favourite dictator. He came back with a mere promise of new talks Donald Trump had to publicly beg for a meeting with Kim Jong-un and to become the first sitting US president to go to North Korea, in order to ... Read More »
Trump May Like Putin. His Administration Doesn’t.
How the U.S. president’s Russia rapprochement never came to pass On the campaign trail, now-President Donald Trump vowed to improve U.S. relations with Russia, and the report released by special counsel Robert Mueller earlier this month lays out in detail how his staffers tried to make it so. They ... Read More »