Statement from JfJfP welcomes unity agreement as essential step towards Palestinian self-determination and deplores Netanyahu’s response

Ali Abunimah asks the questions about the efficacy of the Fatah/Hamas deal, details unublished, in the face of intransigent Israeli control

The US and EU have been working on the belief that Israel will recognise the value to itself of having a Palestinian state. But military rule forever serves Israel’s interest.

If the unity deal holds, Palestinians may be able to move out of the American cul-de-sac towards self-determination and non-violence

The Institute for Middle East Understanding garners first responses to the Fatah/Hamas deal from its Palestininan experts

Hamas and Fatah have lost their sponsors in the Arab spring, and Egypt moved quickly on its policy priority of Palestinian unity

Two weeks of moving memorial days in Israel have been turned into a kitsch denial of the country’s secular and socialist past, and of the Palestinians’ nakba

This story of an advert for Subaru in which a settler runs over 2 Palestinian children was put out, and translated, by the Chinese news agency Xinhua

A statement released by the International Solidarity Movement affirms they will carry on the work and spirit of Vittorio Arrigoni

Israel has imported many migrants to replace the labour of Palestinians. Parents can be deported quickly, but what of their Israeli-born non-Jewish children? Confusion and anger grow.

Jared Malsin looks behind competing suspicions about the murderof Vittorio Arrigoni to trace how in isolated Gaza some Salafi Muslims have moved from peaceful proselytizing to anger and violence.

An economist with special responsibility for Palestine, Raja Khalidi questions the political wishful thinking about the Palestinian state and the efficacy of market liberalism on which the future is being planned.

Hussein Ibish reminds us of the renewed importance of the Arab League’s 2002 commitment to establish normal relations with Israel and asks what Israel gains from ignoring it.

Young Mizrahi Israelis identify with young Arab protesters and hope in this moment to strengthen their hidden identity as people who share the history of an Islamic Arab Middle East

In Arab countries, rebels use the new media. In Israel, government is the biggest user

Two visitors from Liverpool caught in fierce storm of tear gas and sound grenades fired by soldiers at large march marking end of 5th Bil’in conference

Insults fly over the proposed Boycott Law going through the Knesset. Behind them is the most serious issues of freedom of speech

Allegations of croneyism, profiteering and harming the national interest will be put to Egyptian Oil Ministry officials arrested over the terms of gas sales to Israel

The head of Palestinian affais in Egypt’s new government has promised to ease restrictions at the Rafah crossing and facilitate Palestinian unity

Anthony Lerman looks at the facts and myths filling the space since Richard Goldstone retracted the report made by the 4-person UN fact-finding mission