Opinion

Balancing act for stability and collaboration

FOR obvious reasons, the much-anticipated summit between Chinese president Xi Jinping and US president Joe Biden on the sidelines of the APEC summit in San Francisco, is likely to work

The 2-state solution’s nuclear option

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden declared in a televised address on October 25 that, when it came to relations between Palestine and Israel, ‘There’s no going back to the status quo

Children of Palestine

Obaidul Hamid: AS I drive our children to school every morning, I see many uniformed students crossing the busy road leading to the school. They are assisted by crossing supervisors

Gulf Arab regimes’ fake outrage over Gaza

This may be a new Arab era. The distance between rulers and public has never been wider. The Arab people, under strict conditions of repression, took to social media and

How the war on Gaza has stalled the IMEC

Israel’s war on the Palestinians in Gaza has changed the entire equation and stalled the IMEC. It is now inconceivable for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to enter

Polarisation puts democracy in jeopardy

In its 100th anniversary year, the republic of Turkey is deeply divided. Profound societal rifts are apparent everywhere. Yet there are initiatives working to bring people from different social groups

The Middle East conflict is back

by Thomas Demmelhuber : In recent years the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had gradually become uncoupled from the other lines of conflict in the Middle East. This ‘encapsulation of the Middle East

The Gaza genocide: 75 years in brief

by Tom Suarez : FOR 75 years, Israel has been terrorizing Gaza, attacking and bombing the very people it ethnically cleansed from their homes in 1948. When finally on 7