Former president Carter has broken the taboo and given an honest assessment for Americans of the Arab-Israeli conflict, writes Ibrahim Nafie

US officials and American Muslim leaders agreed to work together to confront prejudice against Islam and also against America, writes M A Muqtedar Khan

What is really being asked of the Palestinians is that they concede they are subhuman and thus deserve the horror to which they have been subject, writes John V Whitbeck

Just as the US and Europe once opposed apartheid in South Africa, Israel's discrimination against Palestinians must be similarly exposed and dismantled, writes Jamil Dakwar

The Holocaust must be contextualised, and its lessons learned, writes Azmi Bishara

Hassan Nafaa finds more than one sub-text in the Baker-Hamilton report

Foreign pressures continue to bear down on Syria, though Damascus knows that geopolitical regional balances are on its side, writes Emad Fawzi El-Shueibi