How Gulf States Became Business Partners in Israel’s Occupation

December 20, 2020

The professed rationale for the recent Abraham Accords, so-called “peace deals” signed with Israel by the UAE and Bahrain, was to stymie Israeli efforts to annex swaths of the West Bank. The aim…

Saudi Arabia’s Role in Strengthening Greater Israel

November 10, 2020

Opinion

Amid Trump’s comments regarding the fact that after the presidential election he wants to hold a ceremony of signing a peace agreement between Israel and the Saudi Arabia, with King Salman and his son…

The Battle for Jerusalem: Turkey’s Erdogan Stakes His Claim

October 18, 2020

Opinion

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn’t mince his words at this month’s opening of parliament. In his first assertion of a claim to a lost non-Turkic part of the Ottoman empire, Mr. Erdogan decl…

Israeli Forces Fire Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Inside Al-Aqsa on First Day of Eid

August 12, 2019

Opinion

Israeli police fired rubber bullets and tear gas inside the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem on Sunday after worshipping Muslims objected to around 450 Israeli settlers being allowed into the holy s…

How the Third Temple Movement in Israel Rebranded Theocracy as “Civil Rights”

July 8, 2019

Opinion

In a troubling trend that continues to be overlooked by international media, the Temple Activist movement that seeks to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and replace it …

In Israel the Push to Destroy Jerusalem’s Iconic Al-Aqsa Mosque Goes Mainstream

June 27, 2019

Opinion

The iconic golden dome of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque, located on the Temple Mount or Haram el-Sharif, is the third holiest site in Islam and is recognized throughout the world as a symbol…

Jerusalem’s Old City: How Palestine’s Past Is Being Slowly Erased

June 24, 2019

Opinion

Israel has controlled East Jerusalem and the walled Old City since the 1967 war in which it also occupied the adjacent West Bank. It has effectively treated them as annexed territory ever since. To co…

Will New Netanyahu Coalition and Kushner’s “Deal” Bring Destruction to Jerusalem’s Golden Dome?

April 30, 2019

Opinion

There is a story about the Khalifa Umar bin al-Khattab, the Muslim leader who conquered Jerusalem in 637 C.E. It is said that upon entering the city he asked to see the site of the temple built by Kin…