Mahmoud Abbas - the illegitimate president of the Palestinian Authority (his term expired in January) - is on edge. Years of being an Israeli and American puppet has...

This was always predictable. The Palestinian Islamist party-cum-militia Hamas (an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement) was always going to come to the rescue...

“It’s time for you to find another donkey.” With those words, according to Palestinian sources, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas...

My wife and I just returned home from a three-week visit to Israel. To be accurate, we also visited the Palestinian West Bank for a day; a profoundly memorable day at...

The Hamas-run interior ministry in the Gaza Strip said on Wednesday that it will ban the organisation of elections called for by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in...

Mahmoud Abbas, the “president” (his term expired and elections have been postponed) of the Palestinian Authority, is facing a great credibility and...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbads is reportedly pushing for a vote on Goldstone which supposedly proves the occurrence of war crimes in Gaza during the Israeli...

Fatah has agreed to an Egyptian proposal for the two main Palestinian factions to separately sign a long-delayed unity deal by October 15, a senior party official said...

Time for another Week In Review in Occupied Palestine. First, the Palestinian Authority is battling accusations that it is a puppet of Israel after the PA decided not...

To the waste dump of history is where Palestinian collaborator Mahmoud Abbas belongs. This is a man who has sold out his people and their aspirations for nothing more...

Hamas and Fatah, bitter rivals who violently split more than two years ago, appear close to a reconciliation deal that could lead to a Palestinian unity government....

Israel has released nine Hamas members of the Palestinian parliament after the completion of their prison terms. The politicians had served more than three years in...

Two years after its takeover of the Gaza strip, Hamas has faced down its greatest challenger: A militant, Al Qaeda-inspired organization that says Hamas is not Islamic...

The Buffoon. For the United States neo-cons, there is good torture and bad torture. When American and Israel engage in torture it is noble and necessary and when...

The Fatah movement, the key Palestinian guerrilla movement within the Palestine Liberation Organization moved one step closer to becoming a political party. With the...

Fatah, the Palestinian group led by Mahmoud Abbas, today elected a group of younger leaders, as the movement seeks to shake off its reputation for corruption and...

It was a delicate balancing act for Fatah, the mainstream Palestinian nationalist party, as it sought to rise above past failures, rejuvenate itself and head off the...

A Jerusalemite born to Jewish parents, Dr. Uri Davis was long discontent with left-wing parties in Israel “because all of them are Zionist parties.” To...

Fatah has staged a conference for the first time in 20 years in the Israeli-occupied city of Bethlehem. The point of the gathering was to inject new blood into Fatah...

Fatah, the divided and demoralized movement of the late Yasser Arafat and the West’s best hope for delivering a Mideast peace deal, is trying to stage a...