UN court declares Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories unlawful, urging withdrawal and reparations, as President Cyril Ramaphosa hails the ruling and reinforces support for Palestinian statehood
These subjects take centre stage at a festival showcasing nearly
50 documentaries
A furious Ismail Coovadia has repudiated a bid to ‘honour’ him with trees planted on contested land.
Rhodes students and staff are livid after “racist, xenophobic” posters were displayed on campus.
United States President Barack Obama made his first official visit to Israel this week, amid warnings from some of Israel’s leading supporters.
From March 11 to March 17, a series of events takes place around the country under the rubric of "Israel Apartheid Week."
The inclusion on a US terrorism watchlist has frozen South African charity Al Aqsa’s bank accounts.
Ahead of elections in Israel, ultra-ultra-nationalists using overtly racist rhetoric are surging in the polls.
South Africa must use its influence to take down the ineffective quartet and reach a two-state solution, writes Bongie Mcakuvana.
Three weeks later, Gaza City has almost returned to what passes for normal in this overcrowded, impoverished and war-ravaged strip of land.
Despite international protest, Israel is going ahead with settlement plans to build 3 000 homes in a critical area of the West Bank.
Although Hamas leadership is in hiding, Israel’s missiles have failed to obliterate its authority, writes Chris McGreal in Beit Lahiya.
The support of the US and Britain allows Israel to continue its policy of occupation and aggression, says Seumas Milne.
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has called US President Barack Obama and the two discussed options for "de-escalating" the situation in Israel and Gaza.
Recent attacks on the Jewish National Fund can only be seen as part of the decades-long struggle to exclude Jews from the Middle East.
To equate Israel with apartheid, as Gideon Levy does displays a profound ignorance of the horror that was South Africa.
The removal of a billboard graphically explaining the expanding Israeli occupation of Palestinian land looks set to culminate in a legal battle.
With the sponsorship of a SA organisation, the Bedouin villages of Umm al-Hiran and Al-Arakib in Israel will soon be wiped off the map.
Israelis like the idea of democracy, but openly advocate discrimination against Arab citizens. How can people embrace a word synonymous with evil?
Israel’s continuing developments on the West Bank imperil Obama’s model for peace in the Middle East.
There has been a mixed response to the controversial billboard campaign that graphically explains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.
It’s not Iran or Iran’s agents in Baghdad who have dealt the heaviest strategic blow to Saudi Arabia’s influence in the Middle East — but Cairo.
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/ 16 February 2011
The irony in an opinion piece by Zev Krengel concedes that there are legal consequences to illegal actions.
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/ 4 February 2011
The protests blazing across the Arab world in the past three weeks represent a radical opening up in the frozen politics of the Middle East.
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/ 24 January 2011
The peace process is a sham. Palestinians must reject their officials and rebuild their movement.
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/ 24 January 2011
Massive new leak lifts lid on negotiations, PLO offered up key settlements in East Jerusalem and concessions were made on refugees and Holy sites.
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/ 19 December 2010
Human Rights Watch has requested the US penalise Israel by withholding aid equal to the amount Israel gives in subsidies to West Bank settlements.
Israel’s enemies have a strategy of provoking confrontation and then playing the victim, argues <b>David Saks</b>.
Israeli defence minister warns that go-ahead
for Jerusalem park could prejudice peace talks.
Arabs and many others have been venting their fury over Israel’s violent interception of the Gaza freedom flotilla.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday denied a crisis was rocking relations with Israel, as one of the worst rows in years between the allies rumbled on
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/ 23 February 2010
Ireland and Britain are checking reports that more fake passports were used by Israeli suspects in the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai.