United States is absent from discussion of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

by Rashmee

Posted on January 5, 2020 / The Arab Weekly


The US foothold in the region is clearly in decline but it is on the …

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Trump versus Palestinians: The ‘Great Man’ theory at work

by Rashmee

Posted on July 21, 2019 / The Arab Weekly


Trump has decisively removed a key brick in the wall that protected Palestinian hopes of …

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The Ramadan connection and the Trump-Kushner Middle East ‘peace’ plan

by Rashmee

Posted on May 7, 2019


It seems odd to even mention the word “peace” at this point of time, when …

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We are yet to see the Trump– Kushner Middle East peace plan & it may not be a peace plan at all

by Rashmee

Posted on April 1, 2019


On March 27, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared before a congressional committee …

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What the Trump-Kushner peace plan might actually mean

by Rashmee

Posted on March 10, 2019 / The Arab Weekly


There is still no date for the Trump administration’s long-trailed Palestinian-Israeli peace plan but we …

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Why Israel is pushing for a reset in relations with the Muslim world

by Rashmee

Posted on January 27, 2019 / The Arab Weekly


Binyamin Netanyahu’s Israel is determined to become a friend of all the world. All the …

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Jared Kushner’s attitude to Palestinians is like Sanjay Gandhi’s to the poor

by Rashmee

Posted on August 6, 2018


Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s reported plan to end refugee status for Palestinians reminds me …

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Can a poem be as deadly as a tank?

by Rashmee

Posted on August 5, 2018 / The Arab Weekly


A poem has certainly never stopped a tank, Nobel literature laureate Seamus Heaney once wrote, …

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Israel’s new law is an elegy for Palestinian rights

by Rashmee

Posted on July 22, 2018 / The Arab Weekly


The howls of protest from Israeli Arabs, cold denunciation by prominent Palestinians and polite murmurs …

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British choreography should have risen beyond the symbolic gesture

by Rashmee

Posted on June 29, 2018 / The Arab Weekly


When Prince William became the first member of the British royal family to officially visit …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK