US and Euro attempts to anticipate further "realities" infuriate Israeli planners, notes James Zogby

Having given the world so much hope, now Barack Obama may be the world's greatest disappointment, writes Gamil Matar

The threat of new popular president of the Palestinians is the incentive Israel needs to embrace the two-state solution, writes James Gundun

Mohamed Said Idris argues that Iran's favourite tactic of procrastination has landed it in hot water

President Obama has done nothing to address the grip of the Israeli lobby on US foreign policy, and hence Middle East peace is as unattainable as it ever was, writes Ramzy Baroud

No matter what the hacks say, Dubai is far from finished, writes Aijaz Zaka Syed

Across the Arab world the state remains the major party in ongoing conflicts. It stands to reason, then, writes Galal Nassar, that the state must itself be overhauled if conflicts are to be resolved

Each global warming scenario seems more nightmarish than the last. But the one thing Egypt cannot afford to do, writes Abdel-Moneim Said, is to bury its head in the sand

Disappointment followed high hopes -- especially among the Arabs -- after the promise of change of the new US president foundered in 2009, writes Bassem Hassan