Fri 2-May-2025

Ramona Wadi

Ramona Wadi is an independent researcher freelance journalist book reviewer and blogger. Her writing covers a range of themes in relation to Palestine Chile and Latin America. Her article appeared in MEMO.

Israel’s violence gives Palestinians the right to defend themselves

The Biden administration has been presented with an opportunity to sound its rocket rhetoric after Hamas retaliated against the Israeli colonial violence unleashed upon Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The ‘strategic importance’ of the Abraham Accords

US President Joe Biden has given yet another shard of proof that his policies will follow the legacy of his predecessor Donald Trump.

There’s a new twist in Israeli state-settler complicity

In another example of collaboration between the government of Israel and its illegal settlers the Israeli Settlements’ Council has started to issue eviction orders to Palestinians setting up vegetable stalls in the occupied Jordan Valley.

US funding for UNRWA buys silence

A brief but revealing press statement marked the meeting of US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield with the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini.

Israel’s impunity is endorsed by the international community

Unsurprisingly attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians have increased during the first three months of 2021.

US calls for ‘equal treatment’ for Palestinians and Israelis

US President Joe Biden may be returning the country to the two-state paradigm but the inequalities between Israelis and Palestinians are becoming more prominent with each statement uttered by officials.

The US’ designation is glossing over colonialism in Palestine

In another move that shows US President Joe Biden is navigating between the Trump administration’s era and the return to the two-state politics the US State Department’s 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights presented two facets of the current administration’s policy.

Quartet rhetoric normalizes Israel’s unilateral decisions

The Trump era is over or so the Middle East Quartet would have us believe. Now that the Zionist colonization project is back to contending diplomatically with the two-state compromise.

Biden’s Brand of Democracy Isolates the Palestinians

Israel is reportedly concerned that US President Joe Biden will prioritize human rights over traditional allegiances in the Middle East.

Israel seeks diplomatic allies against the ICC

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is counting upon the diplomatic route against the International Criminal Court’s decision to investigate war crimes alleged to have been committed by his country. Israel will not be short of supporters.

The EU seeks collaboration with Biden

European politicians are finally waking up to the issue of Israeli annexation of Palestinian land acknowledging that the suspension brought about by the US-brokered Abraham Accords are not an impediment to the annexation actually happening in what remains of Palestinian territory.

Guarded optimism does not hide the deprivation forced on Palestinians

The latest report by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process painted a bleak picture for Palestine.

Biden has reassured Netanyahu that the status quo is safe

With US President Joe Biden’s first call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now out of the way the first inklings of the new administration’s diplomacy regarding Palestine and Israel have been made public.

A return to the two-state politics spells loss for Palestinians

US President Joe Biden announced the restoring of diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority and the resumption of humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people.

The US and Israel are changing the narrative on Palestine

“An unprecedented place” is how Israel Hayom described the Trump administration’s scheming with Israel against the Palestinian people during an interview with outgoing US Ambassador David Friedman.

Mladenov’s parting message endorses Trump’s poisonous legacy

The UN has mastered the art of dissociating itself from colonization especially that which it has supported through international consensus.

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