Muslim Issues

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv on 19 October 2023 (Reuters) Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s most feted post-war prime minister, was fiercely pro-Jewish and a powerful enemy of antisemitism. But she was never afraid to call out Israeli war crimes, and did so repeatedly. When the Israeli army stood by in September 1982 as Christian Phalangists slaughtered Palestinian refugees and Lebanese citizens in the Shatila …

  Since Israel initiated its bombing campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip on 7 October, more than 100 children have been killed every day. A child falls victim to Israeli air strikes in Gaza every 15 minutes, according to a Palestinian NGO, highlighting the devastating impact of the ongoing bombing campaign on children. Every day horrific and painful scenes emerging …

  Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza fire rockets to Israel in response to Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip, seen from Sderot, Israel on October 16, 2023. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency] by Dr Mohsen M. Saleh  MohsenMSaleh1 Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, launched by Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades from Gaza Strip (GS), has been an attack on Israeli settlements and military bases in the …

  A pro-Palestinian sign is held high during an “International Day of Action for Palestine”, in New York, USA, on 13 October 2023 [Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images] by Ibrahim Hewitt   I have been re-reading Gaza in Crisis, written in 2010 by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe, because what is being played out in Gaza looks and feels all too …

Protesters sit on top of the bus stop on the Whitehall during the march in London, United Kingdom. Palestinians, activists and supporters gathered by the BBC’s Broadcasting House to march together towards Downing Street on 14 October (Reuters) Two polls this week show Great Britain’s public diverging from their government’s stance on the ongoing war in Israel-Palestine   A fresh …

  MICHAEL YOUNG None of the major actors in the Middle East wants to see the conflict spread, but are locked into positions that lead in the contrary direction.   If the war over Gaza spreads to Lebanon, would a regional conflict become inescapable? Virtually all the major parties involved probably don’t want it to escalate into a wider regional …