Granger and Lowey are not the only American politicians who voice skepticism – or even a degree of animosity – towards Egypt after the fall of Mubarak.

Sama Adnan argues that efforts to educate the US public about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the need for a just solution to this conflict will remain incomplete and essentially toothless

From champion of the vulnerable to betrayer in one bound! Nick Clegg, Britain's new deputy prime minister, is surprisingly agile.

Can the resistance exploit the fake talks, re-position itself and finally "come good”?

Never in their wildest imagination did Palestinians foresee the measures that Egypt would take to stifle their democratic decision.

Lobby correspondent: Peter Oborne, presenter of Channel 4's Dispatches documentary Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, in Westminster, London. Photograph: Channel 4 Pictures

In their 2006 article 'The Israel Lobby,' John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt famously assert, "Other special-interest groups have managed to skew foreign policy, but no lobby has managed to divert