Beyond Israeli Elections: Israel at the Cusp of a Bleak Era
Israelis now find themselves at the cusp of a new era defined by the breakdown of the country’s legal system, political crisis and social instability.
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‘The Donald Trump I know’: Abbas’s UN Speech and the Breakdown of Palestinian Politics
The real danger in the ‘Deal of the Century’ is that the Palestinian Authority will find a way to co-exist with it at the expense of the Palestinian people.
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Breaking with Washington: Arabs and Muslims Must Take a Stance for Palestine
There is little hope that the pro-PA camp, as exemplified in the current political structure, can truly defeat the ‘Deal of the Century’.
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Crisis and Opportunity: The ‘Deal of the Century’ Challenge for Palestinians
The problem with the Palestinian leadership is that, despite its frequent protestations and angry condemnations, it is yet to take independent initiatives or operate outside the American-Israeli paradigm.
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Pipeline or a Pipedream: Israel, Turkey Hydrocarbon Conflict is Brewing in the Mediterranean
What seemed like a lucrative deal, with immense geopolitical significance from an Israeli point of view, now appears to be another extension of the wider Middle Eastern conflict.
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In the Name of “Israel’s Security”: Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding
US funding of Israel’s military adventures continues unabated despite the rapidly changing political reality in the Middle East.
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Sealed Off and Forgotten: What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the West Bank
There is no military logic in the world that could rationally justify the barring of medical access to an isolated community, as Israel has done.
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Embracing Palestine: How to Combat Israel’s Misuse of “Antisemitism”
For the Palestinians to liberate themselves, they have to articulate their own discourse and to be the champions of their own freedom.
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Justice at Last? ‘Panic’ in Israel as the ICC Takes ‘Momentous Step’ in the Right Direction
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has concluded that it has jurisdiction to investigate war crimes in the Israel-occupied Palestinian territories.
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The ‘Great Game’ is Afoot: Killing Soleimani Reflects US Desperation in the Middle East
Judging by past experiences, it is likely that Washington will regret assassinating the Iranian general for many years to come.
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On the Road to Gaza: The Freedom Flotilla Will Sail Again
Israel must end its illegal collective punishment of the civilian population of the of Gaza Strip.
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How UN Resolution 2334 Accelerated Israel’s Colonization in the West Bank
The UN’s impotence in the face of Israel’s flagrant violations of international law have only encouraged Israel’s criminal behavior.
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The Unfinished ‘Coup’: The End of Netanyahu’s Era and the Political Earthquake Ahead
A fundamental change in Israel’s government won’t deliver peace and justice to Palestinians but could still be a political earthquake.
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Israel’s Next Move: The Real Danger in US Decision to Normalize Illegal Jewish Settlements
The US decision to adopt a position toward Israel’s settlements that defies that of the international community dangerously encourages Israel’s crimes.
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How Western Media Bias Allows Israel to Get Away with Murder in Gaza
It is obvious that the Western media have maintained their blindspot on fairly reporting on Gaza and intentionally kept the truth from their readers.
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A Lesson for the Palestinian Leadership: Real Reasons behind Israel’s Arrest and Release of Labadi, Mi’ri
Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas is more focused on propping up his own image than alleviating the suffering of prisoners and their families.
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Microsoft Should Not Fund Israeli Spying on Palestinians
Microsoft claims to respect human rights, but it’s public relations messaging is contradicted by its role in Israel’s occupation.
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian Christians that Nobody is Talking About
The correlation between the shrinking Christian population in Palestine and the Israeli occupation and apartheid should be unmistakable.
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She Deserves Our Support: Betty McCollum Wants US to Stop Subsidizing Torture of Palestinian Children
By arguing that Israel must respect the rights of Palestinian children, Congresswoman Betty McCollum has broken several major taboos in the US government.
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The True Motive Behind Abbas’s Call for Palestinian Elections
What Palestinians need is new leadership, not a continuation of the occupation regime that Abbas serves as head of the Palestinian Authority.
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Administrative Torture: Free Heba al-Labadi, a Jordanian Citizen in Israeli Prison
Rights groups and the international community should pressure Israel to release Heba al-Labadi and all of her comrades unlawfully held in Israeli prisons.
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The Africa-Palestine Conference: Why South Africa Must Lead the Way
While South Africans are ready to take their solidarity with Palestine to a whole new level, politicians are willing to betray their shared values.
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Netanyahu on Steroids: What a Gantz-led Government Means for Palestine
Gantz, possibly Israel’s next prime minister, has made it clear that he would be strengthening, not dismantling, Israels illegal settlement regime.
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Apartheid Made Official: Deal of the Century is a Ploy and Annexation is the New Reality
While the PA is desperate to justify its own existence, Netanyahu, with the full support of the US, is moving toward illegal annexation of Palestinian land.
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‘Justice is Indivisible’: Screams of Israa Ghrayeb Should Be Our Wake-up Call
Let the screams for help and pleas for mercy of Israa Ghrayeb be our guide as we fight against injustice in all of its forms and manifestations.
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The War Ahead: Netanyahu’s Elections Gamble Will be Costly for Israel
The consequences of Netanyahu’s gamble might come at a worse price for him than simply losing the elections.
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Humanity Denied: What Is Missing from the Omar, Tlaib Story
Palestinians will continue to endure hardship under racist Israeli laws and policies long after the two Congresswomen’s story dies down.
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Jewish Settlers Rule the Roost in Israel, But at What Price?
With Jewish settlers dictating the political agenda in Israel and provoking Palestinians in the West Bank, violence is likely to grow in the coming months.
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Manifestos of Hate: What White Terrorists Have in Common
The common thread between violent white males who commit mass killings is a deep indoctrination of racism, anti-immigrant sentiment and hate for Muslims.
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The War on Innocence: Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Court
Israel’s military courts must not be allowed to continue their uncontested brutalization of Palestinian children.
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Killing Tariq: Why We Must Rethink the Roots of Jewish Settlers Violence
The mentality of violence that propels Israeli society reflects a racist ideology pervasive in illegally built settlements and throughout Israel.
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Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
The supposedly random ‘violence’ and drug wars in El Salvador must be seen within the political context of misguided American interventionism.
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The Book of Palestine: National Liberation vs Endless Negotiations
Abbas’ recent attempts at reviving the role of the UN and its affiliated institutions is a belated attempt at correcting a historical mistake.
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Africa and Palestine: A Noble Legacy That Must Never Be Betrayed
Kenya, like the rest of Africa, is a source of inspiration for all anti-colonial, liberation movements around the world.
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Palestine and Kenya: Our Historic Fight against Injustice Is One and the Same
We Palestinians have the right to resist colonial domination and occupation. This is an inalienable right enshrined in international law.
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The Day After: What if Israel Annexes the West Bank?
Israeli officials keen on maintaining Jewish demographic majority and the marginalization of Palestinian rights no longer have good options.
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‘World Refugee Day’: Palestinians Keep Their Right of Return Alive Through Hope, Resistance
Israel and the US are trying to coerce the Palestinians into surrendering their internationally recognized right of return to their homeland.
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Kushner as a Colonial Administrator: Let’s Talk About the ‘Israeli Model’
Palestinians need not be lectured on how to meet Israeli and American expectations, nor should they ever aspire to imitate the undemocratic Israeli model.
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Facing the Facts: Israel Cannot Escape ICC Jurisdiction
While it is true that Israel is not a signatory of the Rome Statute, Palestine has, since 2015, agreed to submit itself to the ICC’s jurisdiction.
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Resurrecting the PLO is Palestine’s Best Response to the ‘Deal of the Century’
It is only through the resurrection of the PLO that Palestinians could finally return to their original mission of devising a national liberation strategy.
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Madonna’s Fake Revolution: Eurovision, Cultural Hegemony and Resistance
Israel has used Eurovision as a distraction from the blood and gore that has been taking place not far from that venue.
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Israel’s Common Denominator: Why Israel Will Continue to Bomb Gaza
The latest attack on Gaza was meant to serve the interests of all of Netanyahu’s possible coalition partners, as will future bombings.
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The Two Narratives of Palestine: The People Are United, the Factions Are Not
To make progress toward the one-state solution, the Palestinian people need a new leadership that will reflect their true aspirations.
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France and the EU, Recognizing Yet Supporting Apartheid Reality in Palestine
While the US defies international law, the EU settles for mere words while in deeds helping to sustain a status quo that ‘s wrought misery for Palestinians.
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Notre Dame of Gaza: Our Mosques and Churches are Also Burning
The media seem oblivious to the obliteration of everything we hold sacred in Palestine as Israel continues to blow up, bulldoze, and desecrate.
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War Versus Peace: Israel Has Decided and So Should We
Israelis are divided on some issues, but resolutely unified around the continued subjugation of the Palestinian people.
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The Unfinished Gaza War: What Netanyahu Hopes to Gain from Attacking Palestinian Prisoners
Why is Israel provoking confrontations when Palestinian prisoners are already subjected to human rights abuses? Equally important, why now?
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‘The Essence of Being Palestinian’: What the Great March of Return is Really About
It is essential for the besieged people of Gaza to understand their true position, not as hapless victims, but as agents of change in their society.
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On My Visit to New Zealand: Can Christchurch Heal Our Collective Wounds?
The Australian terrorist wanted to send a message that immigrants, particularly Muslims, are not safe, not even in New Zealand. But his attempt backfired.
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Uniting Fatah, Not Palestinians: The Dubious Role of Mohammed Shtayyeh
The new prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh’s goal is to solidify Fatah’s political control, not to unify Palestinian leadership to end Israel’s occupation.
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Chasing Mirages: What Are Palestinians Doing to Combat the ‘Deal of the Century’?
Save for a few symbolic ‘victories’ at the United Nations and UN-related bodies, Abbas has done little by way of a concrete and unified Palestinian action.
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Why the Outrage? “Jewish Power” Party is the New Norm in Israeli Politics
AIPAC is hypocritical and deceptive to suggest that Otzma Yehudit violates the “core values that are the very foundation of the State of Israel”.
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War on Al-Aqsa: What Price Netanyahu’s Victory
Netanyahu has mastered the art of political manipulation as his mentor and, once again, Al-Aqsa is the platform for this sinister Israeli politicking.
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Russian Mediation: The Critical Messages of the Hamas-Fatah Talks in Moscow
For Hamas, the Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian factions, freeing Fatah from Washington’s grip is something they can also all agree on.
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Enough Western Meddling and Interventions: Let the Venezuelan People Decide
The world must move to block any further US meddling, and allow the people of Venezuela through democracy to determine their own future.
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As Abbas Ages, Fatah Moves to Consolidate Power
While all Palestinian factions bear part of the blame for failing to unify their ranks, Mahmoud Abbas bears the largest share.
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Gaza Rallies for Caracas: On the West’s Dangerous Game in Venezuela
Venezuela is struggling to defeat a coup attempt that is supported by the United States, Israel and many Western governments.
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Now Chad, then Mali: Why African Countries Are Normalizing with Israel
For now, Israel will continue to walk this fine line, usurping American resources and political support as always, while learning how to walk on its own.
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Is the PA Using the ‘State of Palestine’ to Remain in Power?
Knowing that it has little legitimacy among ordinary Palestinians, the PA is desperate to find an alternative source of legitimacy somewhere else.
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The Moral Travesty of Israel Seeking Arab, Iranian Money for its Alleged Nakba
If Israel wants to correct historical injustices, it should start by accepting responsibility for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
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When Bolsonaro and Netanyahu Are ‘Brothers’: Why Brazil Should Shun the Israeli Model
Israel exports wars to its neighbors and war technology to the world. It should not be seen as the model to follow, but rather the example to avoid.
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Early Elections: Who Will Dethrone ‘The King of Israel’?
With his enemies gaining momentum and police investigations closing in, Benjamin Netanyahu is increasingly becoming a liability to his own party.
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A Question Every American Must Confront: Apartheid Israel or US Democracy?
Texas’s requirement that state employees pledge not to boycott businesses operating in illegally built Israeli settlements is contrary to international law.
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Is There a Plot to Depopulate Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon?
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are denied basic human rights, and many would give up their hope of returning to their homeland to escape.
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The Real Face of Justin Trudeau: Are Palestinians Canada’s New Jews?
Trudeau and his government will be judged by future generations for standing on the wrong side of history by rejecting Palestinians’ rights.
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From Central America to Syria: The Conspiracy against Refugees
Refugees escaping to the US or Europe are perceived as the invaders, rather than the US and its allies who’ve helped cause the reasons for their flight.
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Netanyahu’s Predicament: The Era of Easy Wars is Over
Gaza has demonstrated that only resistance works. It is the only language that registers with Israel, which can’t sustain its violent oppression.
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The Tide is Turning: Israel Is Losing on Two War Fronts
Israel’s ‘war-chest’ will run dry in the end, just as no amount of money could have saved the racist, Apartheid regime in South Africa.
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In Breach of Human Rights, Netanyahu Supports the Death Penalty against Palestinians
Israel’s racist self-definition is now inspiring a host of new laws that would further target and marginalize the country’s native Palestinian inhabitants.
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Why Is Israel Afraid of Khalida Jarrar?
Israel has imprisoned Khalida Jarrar because her intelligence and respect for international law threaten its occupation regime.
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It Is a New Era, But China’s Balancing Act Will Fail in the Middle East
China’s policymakers mistakenly assume that their country can be pro-Palestine and pro-Israel at once, criticizing the occupation while also sustaining it.
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‘A Cruel Choice’: Why Israel Targets Palestinian Schools
As Israeli writer Orly Noy has observed, by targeting schools, Israel is forcing Palestinians to choose between their land and their children’s futures.
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The UN ‘Sheriff’: Nikki Haley Elevated Israel, Damaged US Standing
Considering the violations of human rights committed by Israel during Nikki Haley’s time at the UN, her relentless defense of Israel is no laughing matter.
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That Single Line of Blood: Nassir al-Mosabeh and Mohammed al-Durrah
Nassir was the 34th child to be killed in cold-blood since the protests commenced, and will unlikely be the last to die.
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End of Hegemony: UN Must Reflect Changing World Order
The UN continues its operations based on an archaic and faulty formula that crowned the winners of WWII as the world’s leaders.
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The Real Reasons behind Washington’s War on UNRWA
The US and Israel are simply seeking to remove the internationally recognized right of Palestinians to return to their homeland from the political agenda.
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Why Israel Demolishes: Khan Al-Ahmar as Representation of Greater Genocide
It is carved into the Israeli psyche that Palestine must be completely destroyed in order for Israel to exist.
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The Veiled Danger of the ‘Dead’ Oslo Accords
Trump has indicated that the spirit of Oslo remains alive: the bribes, the bullying and the fighting for that coveted and final Israeli ‘victory.’
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What Lies Beneath: The US-Israeli Plot to ‘Save’ Gaza
Why would the US manufacture a major humanitarian crisis in Gaza while engaging in discussions about the urgent need to end Gaza’s humanitarian woes?
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When Illness is a ‘Death Sentence’: The Victimization of Gaza Women
These women embody the remarkable spirit and courage of every Palestinian woman living under Israeli Occupation and siege in the West Bank and Gaza.
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Gaza without Cancer Medicine as Haley Blames Arabs for Washington’s Sins
The US blames Arabs for the suffering of Gazans while supporting Israel’s illegal policy of collectively punishing the entire civilian population.
Read MoreMission Accomplished: Why Solidarity Boats to Gaza Succeed Despite Failing to Break the Siege
The stream of solidarity boats continued to sail to Gaza, not only unhindered by the fear of Israeli retribution, but also stronger in their resolve.
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Mahmoud Abbas, Stop Exploiting Ahed Tamimi for Personal Gain
Abbas can try to boost his popularity with a photo op, but Palestinians see how he’s joined Israel in its collective punishment of the people of Gaza.
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Common Enemy: Why Israel is Embracing Fascism in Europe
Israeli leaders are keen to benefit from Europe’s move to the far right and the anti-Muslim sentiment that accompanies it.
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Jewish Nation-State Law: Why Israel Was Never a Democracy
There is no escaping the moral imperative now. Those who insist on supporting Israel must know that they are supporting an unabashed Apartheid regime.
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The Massacre of Inn Din: How Rohingya Are Lynched and Held Responsible
How long do the Rohingya have to endure before something is done to alleviate their suffering?
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Europe’s Iron Curtain: The Refugee Crisis is about to Worsen
As long as Europe continues to approach the refugee crisis without addressing its root causes, the crisis will continue to grow.
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‘Deal of the Century’ is Not New and the PA Leadership is Not a Victim
The ‘deal of the century’ promises to be a rehash of previous American proposals that catered to Israel’s needs and interests.
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Did Israel Inspire Trump’s Family Separation Policy?
What Americans have witnessed at their southern border is what Palestinians have experienced daily at the hands of Israel for the last 70 years.
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End the Wars to Halt the Refugee Crisis
If European politicians continue to ignore the root causes of the problem, the refugee crisis is going to persist unabated.
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Beating the US ‘Veto’: Palestinians Need Urgent Protection from Israel
The international community should not stand by watching Israel continue its crimes against the Palestinians with impunity.
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The Colonization of Palestine: Rethinking the Term ‘Israeli Occupation’
Palestinians will continue to suffer the consequences of Zionist colonialism until Israel’s original sin is boldly confronted and justly remedied.
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Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations
Solidarity with the Palestinians’ struggle for freedom from oppression is growing, and Zionists’ intimidation tactics such as the charge of ‘anti-Semitism’ for criticizing Israel’s crimes are no longer having the silencing effect they’ve had in the past.
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Israel’s Premature Celebration: Gazans Have Crossed the Fear Barrier
When Gazan youth stood bare-chested at the border fence, falling one drove after the other, they crossed a fear barrier that no generation of Palestinians has ever crossed. And when people are unafraid, they can never be subdued or defeated.
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An Affront to History: Giro d’Italia’s ‘Sport-Washing’ of Israeli Apartheid
The RCS Sport has done the ‘Giro’ race, sport cycling and the Italian people an unforgivable disservice for the sake of a few million dollars. By agreeing to start the race in a country that is guilty of apartheid practices and a protracted military occupation, they will stain the race forever.
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My Home is Beit Daras: Our Lingering Nakba
For me, Beit Daras is not just a piece of earth but a perpetual fight for justice that shall never cease, because the Badrasawis belong to Beit Daras and nowhere else.
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Eclipsing Factionalism: The Missing Story from the Gaza Protests
Factionalism in Palestinian society is a deep-rooted ailment that has, for decades, thwarted any unified effort at ending the Israeli military Occupation and Apartheid.
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Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as ‘Liberals’ and ‘Progressives’ Go Mute
Palestinians must continue to count on themselves; to stay focused on formulating a proper strategy that will serve their own interests in the long run, the kind of strategy that transcends factionalism and offer all Palestinians a true roadmap to the coveted freedom.
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The Ghost of Herut: Einstein on Israel, 70 Years Ago
Albert Einstein criticized the right wing Zionist extremists in Israel, but today they rule the country, and there can be little wonder why Israeli snipers are shooting Palestinian youth when the Israeli Defense Minister declares “there are no innocent people in Gaza”.
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Media Cover-up: Shielding Israel is a Matter of Policy
It is incumbent on us to expose this sinister relationship and hold mainstream media to account for covering up Israel’s crimes, as well as Israel for committing these crimes in the first place.
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