Gareth Jenkins looks at the fall-out from the Turkish incursion against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq

The CIC may be down but not out, writes Gamal Nkrumah

As efforts to resolve Lebanon's intractable political crisis stumble again, fears of a coming war are growing, Lucy Fielder warns

The torturing to death of a Palestinian Islamist by Palestinian Authority intelligence sends out shockwaves of revulsion while the occupation continues to attack Palestinian society, writes Khaled Amayreh

Mahmoud Abbas is on a losing path, plain and simple, writes Ramzy Baroud

If the next US president is to stem the damage of the Bush years, a just Middle East peace must top the agenda, writes James Zogby

With political negotiations going nowhere, Hamas is preparing to unleash mass popular action to end the Gaza siege and reconfigure the strategic balance with Israel, writes Saleh Al-Naami

The fate of one college professor who refuses to celebrate militarism epitomises the fanaticism at the heart of Israeli academia, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth