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It is an event “of cosmic proportions,” said one Palestinian academic, a fitting description regarding Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call, which was communicated on May 8 by Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor.

Whether the Jordanian government likes it or not, the Jordanian-Palestinian agreement and the mood of the people regarding Jerusalem require it to take a new look at the situation in the holy city.

As U.S.-led NATO forces brace themselves for a likely pullout from Afghanistan, from the longest and costliest military campaign in history, the already tense relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan has begun experiencing hiccups. The faltering relationship threatens to push south Asia into a new era of destabilization.

While on the surface it looks like Israel is intent on attacking Iran to prevent it from pursuing its nuclear ambition, the subtle but significant moves by Israel indicate that the next likely target is Syria instead

I join everyone else in saluting Alan Hart. He has given half a lifetime - and his considerable professional skills - to the Palestinian struggle. Now he's calling it a day. I find the news indescribably sad, but at the same time it should serve as a wake-up call to Palestinians, and indeed Arabs everywhere, that the patience of their most devoted sympathizers is wearing thin.

After months of consultations a new/old government has finally received the vote of confidence.

When Salam Fayyad took over the Ministry of Finance, the number one complaint against the Palestinian leadership was corruption.

The state of Israel prides itself on being a democratic state in which all its citizens are treated equally under the law. Yet a closer examination shows the strange and convoluted ways in which laws are used to defend some clearly racist practices.

The seemingly inevitable resignation of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has left Palestinians in the occupied territories, and their president, knee deep in trouble

Israel's choice to extend the emergency order denying the unification of citizens with spouses from enemy states strengthens the argument that Israel is a discriminatory apartheid state.