Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman is said to be “upset” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Channel 12 TV reported on Tuesday. This is believed to be the reason why normalisation talks have apparently been put on hold. Citing senior Saudi officials, the report claimed that Riyadh will not accept normalisation of ties with Israel without the creation of an independent Palestinian state. The officials stressed that Saudi Arabia will not sign an unconditional normalisation deal, pointing out that Netanyahu is not ready to make any concessions to the Palestinians. According to Channel 12, the Saudi officials added that the Kingdom “is not interested to talk with the current extremist Israeli government.”

Geneva - The five-year imprisonment sentence of Moroccan activist Said Boukyoud on charges of free expression is unfair and cannot be justified under any circumstances, said Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor in a statement.

Across the Arab world, journalists are debating the implications of Israel's anti-government protests on the state's stability and regional relations.

At Friday’s “Committee of Six on Palestine“ gathering in Nouakchott, Mauritania, the Secretary–General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, emphasized the importance of Member States submitting written and verbal statements and providing financial aid to back the privileges of the Palestinian people and terminate the Israeli colonial domination, which is illegitimate and unlawful according to global law and UN decrees.

After the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco, Sudan will be the fourth Arab country to join the Abraham Accords and sign a peace agreement with Israel.

The latest Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic situation and living conditions to their take on immigration, state institutions and democracy. With one single exception: Palestine. 76 per cent of all respondents to the poll, which is carried out annually by the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies in Doha, said that Palestine is a cause for all Arabs, not Palestinians alone.

At the international soccer tournament, Qatari anti-normalization activists as well as ordinary spectators have put Palestinian solidarity in the spotlight. In Doha’s public squares, crowds cheering Arab teams to victory have broken out into pro-Palestine chants and songs like “Mawtini,” the Palestinian and Arab anthem. Euphoric spectators have draped the Palestinian flag across their shoulders and waved it during matches.

Scholar Hillel Cohen embarks on a journey to the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, offering in his new book a sharp indictment of the coun-try's racist elites.