Washington’s response to the speech that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivered at the UN General Assembly last September 26 confirms that the bilateral Palestinian-U.S. relations are heading for stormy times. The U.S., which opposed Abbas’…
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On 12 October, Cairo is due to host a conference, sponsored and chaired by Egypt and Norway, of international and Arab donors for the reconstruction of Gaza. This is their ostensible aim. But the reasons that the donors cited for not…
President Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah movement, which he commands, have unleashed a media campaign against Hamas and the resistance. If pressure from the Palestinian public fails to stop the campaign, Abbas may achieve politically…
August 22, 2014 Day eight: Millions of caged ‘animals’ in the Refugee Camps During our trip to the West Bank, we spent the whole day at the city of Jenin, visiting the Freedom Theaterand roaming along the…
The frostier their relations are with the US, the more likely they are to sympathize with the Palestinians Since the Israeli offensive against Gaza began, images of Palestinian children murdered in their homes…
Genuine sovereignty would end Israel’s current presumed right to steal Palestinians’ land, control their borders, place them under siege, and bomb them at will All colonial settler states are based on the violent dispossession of…
they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues—Matthew 10:17 In the Gaza War,* Israel successfully attacked its foundations. In the first days of the war, rich Jews denied…
Israel’s offensive against HAMAS in the Gaza Strip is stymied. The operation Protective Edge has produced no results. With 2 thousand civilians dead and hundreds of houses demolished not a single mission is accomplished; no…
The ‘two-state solution’ is perennially misunderstood. The solution envisaged has nothing to do with a possible spatio-political division of Israel-Palestine and the ending of the Occupation. Rather it is a public relations device to quell…
The trail of blame for three missing Israeli boys, which the Israeli government has used as the reason for their latest military exercise, is weak. Before the alleged murders of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and…