The recent renunciations of violence by famed militant Islamist leaders are being met by silence among the rank and file of jihadist groups, writes Ammar Ali Hassan

Though Israel must be gleeful following the Annapolis debacle, theatrics won't change the nature or resolve of the ground struggle for Palestinian national liberation, writes Mustafa Al-Barghouti

Despite the preceding furore, Annapolis offered nothing to inspire hope, writes James Zogby

It's not that Israel's borders are porous. They don't exist at all, writes Galal Nassar

Imposing new realities won't make peace, writes Mursi Atallah

If from the festivities of Annapolis Abbas brings home simply more of the same he will appear an incompetent, or worse, that has sold out his own people, writes Curtis Doebbler

Rising religiosity, itself a reaction to tyranny, is giving rise to a straightjacketed and uniform political and social culture, writes Azmi Ashour

Without strident change from the inside, the Muslim Brotherhood is set to lose the gains it made in recent years, writes Khalil El-Anani

The same UN that failed the Iraqi people must now make mandatory US-UK reparations to Iraq and the allocation of Iraqi oil revenues for Iraqi refugees, writes Denis Halliday

Regardless of the failure of Annapolis, a historic opportunity faces the Palestinians and Arabs, writes John Whitbeck