Egypt and Tunisia aren’t sliding into chaos – they are simply learning how to be democracies.

Long live the Arab Spring - despite the murmurs about Morsi’s “pharaonic” decree in Egypt and the Syrian bloodbath, I refuse to lose faith in the people of the Arab world.

There must be a limit, though, to how long bombs, bullets, and barbed wire can contain Gaza.

Reporting from Tel Aviv and Ramallah as the latest rash of violence began to sweep Israel, Jason Cowley finds a nation implacably set on a course of war . . . and increasingly disconnected from the world.

Despite the latest ceasefire, there is no way clear to peace. And there is no military solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israeli spokesman Mark Regev tells the NS that "a nuclear-armed Iran is something we will not accept".

Bel Trew and Nada El-Kouney report from the civilian convoy that travelled into the violence in solidarity.

Einstein declined, saying he lacked "the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people" to do the job.

Arab and Muslim nations condemn Israel but remain mute in the face of ongoing ethnic cleansing in Sudan.

Israel says the goal is not to remove Hamas but to reassert Israel’s “deterrence” capability.

Hamas military commander killed as Israel launches new Gaza offensive.

The International Criminal Court should act to bring Syrian officials to justice without Security Council authorisation.

Outbreaks of sectarian violence expose Lebanon’s vulnerability to outside forces.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish leader, says the countries are "not far" from war.