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Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, President of the UN General Assembly, announces the assembly's official adoption of the plan to partition Palestine into independent Arab and Jewish states. Getty

This day in history: The UN decrees the partition of Palestine

UN Resolution 181 was never implemented, and instead of getting half of their ancestral homeland, the Palestinians got nothing; 77 years later, the situation remains as bleak as ever.

Sami Moubayed 29 November 2024
Axel Rangel Garcia

The Palestinian strategy in confronting the Israeli strategy

Israel was never sincere about a two-state solution, but we will continue to push for our national independence, with or without the 'peace process'

Nasser al-Kidwa 14 October 2024
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates is seen onstage during the Alight Align Arise: Advancing the Movement for Repair National Conference at Thompson Buckhead on June 7, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. Carol Lee Rose/AFP

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s not-so-radical departure

The author's decision to write about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict shouldn't come as a surprise to his longtime readers.

Deborah Baker 12 October 2024
On 13 September 1993, the Oslo Accords were signed between Israeli and Palestinian leaders under US auspices. Since then, Israel has put facts on the ground that make a Palestinian state impossible. Andrei Cojocaru

31 years later, Oslo takes its last dying breaths

On 13 September 1993, the Oslo Accords were signed between Palestinian and Israeli leaders under US auspices. Since then, Israel has put facts on the ground that make a Palestinian state impossible.

Sami Moubayed 13 September 2024
MAJALLA

Al Majalla publishes Olmert-Kidwa peace proposal

The draft includes a Palestinian state with a capital in Jerusalem, annexation of 4.4% of the West Bank territory, and "Arab security presence" in Gaza

Al Majalla - London 07 September 2024
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (L) and head of the Fatah central committee Farouk al-Qaddumi at the Fatah central committee in Tunis.

Legendary Palestinian leader Farouk al-Qaddumi dies aged 94

As students in Cairo in the 1960s, al-Qaddumi and Yasser Arafat founded the Palestinian Fatah movement and worked with Nasser. To his dying day, he refused to go back home under an Israeli permit

Sami Moubayed 23 August 2024
Participants in a memorial hold a photo of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Iran on 31 July 2024. Reuters

No easy options: Hamas enters into the politics of delusion

Netanyahu's government will stop at nothing to destroy the group behind 7 October and is prepared to make the Strip uninhabitable. To survive, Hamas only has difficult roads ahead

Majed Kayali 05 August 2024
Palestinians at the funeral of a victim of Israeli bombing in Khan Yunis in Gaza on 16 July 2024 Bashar Taleb/AFP

New Gaza Nakba deepens Palestinian divisions and differences

The Palestinians need and deserve unity, a clear vision, and a feasible long-term strategy. Instead they have rival leaderships both convinced that they are right and the other is wrong.

Majed Kayali 17 July 2024
A still from the film 'Bye Bye Tiberias' Bye Bye Tiberias (2023

‘Bye Bye Tiberias’: A quiet meditation on memory and identity

Lina Soualem's 2023 cinematic masterpiece follows four generations of Palestinian women, with a focus on her and her mother, actress Hiam Abbass. From upheaval and refuge comes serenity and sadness.

Areej Jamal 11 June 2024
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Arafat messages al-Assad as Beirut burns

The PLO chairman now knows that he must leave Lebanon as his fighters are surrounded by the Israelis. The Syrian president is no friend, but agrees to take them in.

Ibrahim Hamidi 25 May 2024
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An Israeli diplomat recently told Lebanese Shiites that Israel did not see them as the enemy, but it is a difficult argument to make given the death and destruction. Is there a better way?

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Workers are seen through a pipe at a construction site on the extension of Russia's TurkStream gas pipeline. Reuters
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Getting the oil out: exploring Hormuz alternatives

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Al Majalla looks at potential new export routes that big oil producers can use to offset Iran's control over key regional waterways

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Mustafa Ali Abu Bakr, 76, stands in front of his family’s graves after they were broken by Israeli soldiers near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 31 July 2026. Reuters
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Settler attacks increase ahead of Israel election

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Settlement expansion in the West Bank is popular with Israeli voters, which explains the uptick in violence in recent weeks

Sherine Younes
A member of the Popular Mobilisation Forces monitors the Iraq-Syria border in Al-Qaim, January 23, 2026. AFP
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Iraq’s armed factions are still three steps ahead of Baghdad

03 August 2026

Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has vowed to dissolve armed groups by the end of September, but this is highly unlikely. Al Majalla explains why.

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