Mohammad Balawi

The Fence: Scenes from a Palestinian tragedy

Saturday 9-February-2019

For decades Israeli leaders and media have insisted that Palestinians left their homes in the Nakba of 1948 leaving everything behind to become refugees of their own free will.

Gantz’ election videos shouldn’t come as a surprise

Tuesday 29-January-2019

General Benjamin (Benny) Gantz the 20th Chief of General Staff of the Israeli army was charged in March 2010 with illegally expanding his house onto public property.

Abbas and his suicidal decisions

Tuesday 8-January-2019

On 22 December Mahmoud Abbas the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) dissolved the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).

Israel’s arrest of mothers shows its contempt for Palestinian women

Friday 28-December-2018

On 16 December 2018 an Israeli court in the occupied city of Jerusalem sentenced Suzan Abu Ghannaam – the mother of 20-year-old Palestinian martyr Muhammad Abu Ghannaam – to eleven months in prison on account of “incitement” in a Facebook post.

Demolishing houses as collective punishment

Thursday 20-December-2018

About a month ago my wife asked me “Have you seen that two-story house they demolished in the West Bank. Such a pity it was such a beautiful house made of white stone. Why did the Israelis destroy it? What did its owners do?”

Israel doesn’t survive because it’s strong

Saturday 24-November-2018

The result of the latest round of fighting in the besieged Gaza Strip when the Israeli army tried to carry out a covert military operation even while the Egyptians were in the final stages of mediating a ceasefire between armed factions in Gaza and the Israeli government proved that Palestinians can damage Israel as never before.

The Israeli Myth of the Uncivilized Palestinian

Sunday 28-October-2018

Recently in another shocking incident Israel’s Culture Minister Miri Regev was outraged by a Palestinian children’s novel written by Walid Dagga a Palestinian prisoner who spent more than thirty years in jail for resisting the occupation.

Netanyahu the armed prophet of the clash of civilisations

Monday 22-October-2018

If US President Donald Trump can be visualised as King Cyrus then Benjamin Netanyahu is the prophet out to save the modern Israelites in a hostile environment.

Netanyahu’s adventures in the AIPAC wonderland

Sunday 14-October-2018

Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks at the 2018 conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) are key to an understanding of how Israel is run.

US wants to annul the legitimate Palestinian right to return

Friday 5-October-2018

There are many in the Arab world who fell about laughing when the US ambassador to the UN started to lecture them about how rich Arab countries did not do enough to help their Palestinian brothers.