Why do I have this feeling that we have been here and done all this before? I know, I know. This US President is different, as different from his predecessors as a sunny day is distinguishable from a dark, oppressive night. 
But watching Barack Obama shake hands with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in New York on Tuesday (September 22) and smile for the waiting cameras, I had this weird feeling as if I have witnessed and seen it all before. &...

‘We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the era of impunity,’ Nadia Hijab, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for Palestine Studies, was quoted by IPS in response to the findings of a 574-page report by a four-member United Nations Fact finding mission. The mission, led by internationally-renowned former South African supreme court justice and chief prosecutor in the international tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia, investigated alleged war crimes commi...