The new Palestinian year: A mixture of myths and hope
Saturday 19-February-2022
For many Palestinians 2022 is a very special year as it marks the beginning of the “downfall” of the Israeli occupation.
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Parallels between the occupations of Afghanistan and Palestine
Tuesday 14-September-2021
The Palestinian public observed keenly the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Time to end Israel’s impunity
Friday 21-August-2020
The Israeli plan to annex what’s left of Palestine leads us to a simple conclusion: It is time for freedom-loving people of the world to take concerted action to oppose the Trump-Netanyahu Peace Plan.
Why Hamas wants Palestinian elections to be held
Wednesday 8-January-2020
In September last year Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared at the UN that he is calling for an election to be held in Palestine.
Buying time for Israel
Monday 30-December-2019
As was widely expected US President Donald Trump’s plan to resolve the Middle East conflict — the so-called “Deal of the Century” — is officially dead.
When murder is permissible: Israel’s ‘targeted assassinations’
Wednesday 13-November-2019
One of the anomalies of political Zionism is that while it was founded as a response to murderous pogroms against European and Russian Jews as a means to rescue them from such treatment by having a safe haven to go to the founding fathers of the State of Israel and their successors have had no qualms about inflicting terrible suffering and hardship on others in order to achieve their aims.
Israel’s inherent sense of racial superiority will backfire one day
Thursday 18-July-2019
Hamas did a rare thing this week; it issued a press release contradicting one of its top officials Fathi Hammad who called for the killing of Jews everywhere in the world.
The price paid by Israel’s third class citizens
Tuesday 9-July-2019
Palestinians these days are fond of circulating on social media a scene from an old Israeli comedy which shows a group of Hamas fighters who could sneak through a tunnel into enemy territory and kidnap an Israeli officer in order to exchange him for Palestinian prisoners.
Redefining the Middle East
Wednesday 12-June-2019
It was a revealing and quite intersecting interview that Jared Kushner had with Jonathan Swan on Axios on HBO aired a week ago.
The US ‘deal’ will take it to an unimagined level
Wednesday 29-May-2019
One thing caught my attention during the latest Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip which left dozens of Palestinians dead.
Netanyahu: Leading global right-wing politics
Wednesday 24-April-2019
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro caused a big uproar in Israel after he addressed a group of evangelical pastors in Rio de Janeiro saying that he believes the crimes of the Holocaust can be forgiven but not forgotten.
Israel between immunity and fragility
Thursday 28-March-2019
Just few days separated the American official recognition of the Israeli authority over the Syrian Golan Heights and the rocket that destroyed a house in Tel Aviv.
Whatever Israel wants Israel gets
Thursday 21-March-2019
On 4 March the newly formed Israeli Blue and White party’s leaders Gabi Ashkenazi Yair Lapid Benny Gantz and Moshe Ya’alon declared that Israel will not pull out from the occupied Golan Heights.
Israel in self-destruction mode
Monday 11-March-2019
Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi once said “Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.”
Palestinians have won a moral victory but what will happen next?
Sunday 3-March-2019
This week the Palestinians won a moral victory. The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) released a report that sheds light on the killing of peaceful Palestinian demonstrators in the Gaza Strip since March last year.
Israel’s anti-BDS strategy simply peddles more myths and lies
Sunday 17-February-2019
Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs has released a report called Terrorists in Suits: The Ties Between NGOs promoting BDS and Terrorist Organisations.