The bombardment and siege of Gaza since Oct 7 have killed over 17,000 people including more than 7,000 children, injured more than 40,000 and displaced 1.6 million.

The pressure upon the Israeli elite and society to act justly towards the Palestinians will have to come from outside Israeli society.

What is taking place in Gaza now is but an episode, a traumatic and a defining one, but nonetheless, a mere chapter in the history of a people who proved to be as durable and resilient as history itself.

The former leader delivers a scathing attack on the recent Arab-Islamic summit's failure to come up with an action plan against Israel.

The Western media has refused to describe what is happening in Gaza as genocide, citing a lack of evidence for the term.

The issue of Israeli credibility is not only taking place on the battlefield.

The move has mobilised more criticism against the fast food franchise with one rights lawyer describing it as 'bizarre'.

Israel has not lost any sleep listening to speeches by Muslim leaders from Indonesia to Morocco.

The fundamental issue is the continuous supply of weapons by the industrial military complex in the US and the West which Arabs leaders are dependent on.

Israel seems to be in a big hurry to flush out all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to the Sinai Desert in Egypt because there is the economic dimension of the Greater Israel project.

For one small family, the conflict has ended two lives filled with promise and narrowly avoided claiming a third.

A new Middle East is emerging, and it promises to be Washington’s worst nightmare.