By Seema Khan

After putting Kashmir and its people through all kinds of torture - right from locking down the whole state for months, shutting down the internet, arresting people and putting them in jail with or without any evidence, ruining the economy of the state for 2 years in the name of reforms, now the BJP government has diverted its attention toward Lakshadweep, a Muslim dominated Island with largely peace-loving people.

By Seema Khan

On March 17, 2020 Rahul Gandhi said, “I have been warning the government that a massive Tsunami is coming and they are fooling about, they are not clear about what they have to do. India should be preparing itself, not just for Covid virus but for the economic devastation that is coming.”

by Motasem A Dalloul

As I write it is almost midnight on Thursday, and after a two-and-a-half hour meeting of Israel's security cabinet it has been reported that there is to be a ceasefire in the military offensive against the Gaza Strip, where I live. According to Israeli journalist Yaron Avraham on Channel 12, the Israeli army will stop its shelling of Gaza immediately, but it will be resumed if the Palestinian resistance groups do not stop firing rockets towards the occupation state.

by Yvonne Ridley

The influential pro-Israel lobby in America was reeling last night after it emerged that the US government may halt the $735 million sale of precision-guided missiles to Israel. US politicians, normally supportive of the Zionist state, are divided about giving their usual approval to such a deal.

by Motasem A Dalloul

The Israeli occupation army — the so-called Israel Defence Forces (IDF) — has been bombarding the besieged Gaza Strip in an attempt to destroy the infrastructure of the Palestinian resistance movements which responded to the brutal Israeli aggression against the Palestinian worshippers in Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque, and the proposed dispossession of Palestinian families from Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.

by Ghufrane Daymi

Over the past week, Jerusalem and occupied Palestine have once again seen popular collective action, an almost spontaneous reaction to the repeated injustices and oppression amid the evictions in Sheikh Jarrah. Yet, within the midst of all the violence and chaos, a rather subtle, yet devious, narrative arises from Israel and its ally, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

by Iqbal Jassat

In a dramatic escalation representative of global outrage against Israel's tsunami of crimes against the people of occupied Palestine, New York-based Human Rights Watch has released a detailed legal report declaring that the Israeli government is committing crimes of apartheid. The serious charge of apartheid is groundbreaking, because it is the first official use of the term by the rights group.

Based on Editorial in Le Mode - a French news paper

Every day, 350,000 new infections and more than 2,000 deaths are recorded in the country. A situation due to the unpredictability of the virus but also to the lack of anticipation, arrogance and demagogy of the Indian Prime Minister.

Presented as the "pharmacy of the world", the country exported and offered millions of doses of vaccine, ensuring that it produced enough for its population to be protected. Three months later, the Indian "example" gave way to a nightmare.

by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh

It is said that history is written by the victors, but when do they write it? In the heat of the moment while the witnesses are still alive? Or after they have died?

by Yvonne Ridley

The hypocrisy of one of Europe's leading Islamophobes, French President Emmanuel Macron, appears to be without limits with his call for all mercenaries to quit Libya in a bid to help the fledgling Government of National Unity (GNU). Many of the mercenaries were sent there by France in the first place; now they are likely to head for Chad to shore up the new military government and protect French interests in Libya's southern neighbour.

by Halima Ben Nasr

Tunisia is currently witnessing a prolonged political stalemate amid increasing tension and fear for the country's future and democratic ideals in the Arab world.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The United States should stop operating double standard in its geopolitical policies and attempting to seek regime changes in the Middle East, said an opinion piece in a Malaysian media outlet.

"Geopolitics as practiced by superpowers is packed with double standards. And the United States has more than a fair share of them," the article titled "American democracy drivel" in the New Straits Times said on Sunday.

America's double-standard shows up in the Middle East, "otherwise known as a built-for-Israel playground," it wrote.