USAID should be cherished, not maligned
Yossi Mekelberg February 18, 2025 For a new US administration to review the country’s main policies in terms of objectives and optimizing the resources allocated to attain them is understandable, […]
Israel’s narrow coalition — narrow minded with narrowing options
YOSSI MEKELBERG June 22, 2024 The greater the challenges Israel faces, the more it becomes apparent that its current government is utterly inept and chaotic, simply not up to the […]
At last, a UN Security Council Resolution over Gaza, but what’s next?
YOSSI MEKELBERG March 30, 2024 There was something beyond infuriating about the slowness, and even more so the cynical manner, with which discussions about a UN Security Council resolution calling […]
Israel’s war on Gaza: Collateral damage by name, murder by nature
YOSSI MEKELBERG May 30, 2023 It is an imperative that any fighting force that would like to be regarded as moral and ethical should refrain from targeting civilians. Under certain […]
Britain seeks to distance itself from a global refugee crisis
YOSSI MEKELBERG March 18, 2023 There is hardly an issue in the British political-social discourse that is more mired in confusion, misunderstanding, misinformation and characteristic xenophobia than immigration. The UK […]
Israel has only itself to blame for its referral to the ICJ
YOSSI MEKELBERG November 19, 2022 Israeli security forces hold back a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, on November 19, 2022 (AFP) It remains to be […]
Israel faces a major nuclear deal dilemma
YOSSI MEKELBERG September 03, 2022 Short Url Slowly and surely, but hardly with certainty or a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction, the US and Iran are edging ever closer toward […]
Asylum seekers cannot be exchanged for money
YOSSI MEKELBERG April 23, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/965ax Priti Patel, the British home secretary, is right. Yes, you read it correctly, I do agree with Patel on something. I agree […]
How many more lives does the Israeli government have?
YOSSI MEKELBERG April 16, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/mjmtk It was only a matter of time before Israel’s coalition government would face a major crisis and lose its majority in the […]
Reasonable people of all faiths must take a stand against settlers’ hate crimes in the West Bank
YOSSI MEKELBERG October 24, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/5syaw There is nothing that can justify occupying someone else’s land and subjecting its people to the arbitrary rule and whims of another […]
This despicable law shames Israel’s so-called democracy
YOSSI MEKELBERG July 03, 2021 21:23511 Short Url https://arab.news/mzv9t The quality and integrity of a democratic system is not determined by how it protects the rights of the majority, but by […]
A new glimmer of hope for Middle East peace
Author YOSSI MEKELBERG January 23, 2021 Palestinian men rest at an aid distribution centre of UNRWA in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (File/AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/br7bd Any mention of a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians any time soon is bound to raise eyebrows. For nearly 20 […]