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22 May 2013
Harriet Sherwood: US secretary of state John Kerry arrives in the Holy Land this week on his fourth visit in two months amid deepening skepticism on all sides about his chances of breathing life back into the moribund peace process, and an acknowledgement by European diplomats that there is no "Plan B" in place in the event of its failure.
22 May 2013
Alistair Dawber: One of the most evocative and shocking episodes of the second Intifada, the shooting of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy by the Israeli army, was staged. Indeed, Mohammed al-Durrah was not even injured in the incident. Those, at least, are the findings of an investigation by the Israeli government, published today, which has described the case as a “blood libel on the state of Israel”.
22 May 2013
Isabel Kershner and Fares Akram: Israel said Tuesday that it would permit Palestinians to fish up to six nautical miles off the Gaza coast, canceling the limit of three nautical miles that was imposed after Gaza militants fired rockets into Israel in March.
22 May 2013
Moe Ali Nayel: “Are you enjoying filming our misery? Film: it’s fine, you are like the others. You show up in the camp, film, leave, and we are still here.” I used to reply: but we want to tell the world about your story. Always, with the same sarcasm, is the reply: “how much are you getting paid to tell the world our story?”
22 May 2013
Yazan al-Saadi: Currently, nearly all Arab governments are willing to normalize relations with the Zionist state, despite a lack of support from domestic populations that remain committed to resistance. Some Arab states, such as Jordan, Egypt, and Qatar, have formally normalized relations with Israel through treaties that have been in effect for decades.
22 May 2013
Adalah: On Nakba Day, 15 May 2013, Palestinians marked the passing of sixty-five years since the massive forced expulsion of Palestinians from their national homeland. The Nakba commemorations demand reflection not only on the “catastrophe” of the loss of life, land, and property in 1948, but also on Israeli policies that are still dispossessing Palestinians of their land today, sixty-five years later.
22 May 2013
Joseph Massad: It is Israel's claims that it represents and speaks for all Jews that are the most anti-Semitic claims of all.
22 May 2013
Asa Winstanly: Two confidential Anti-Defamation League memos from the 1970s show that the pro-Israel “civil rights” group sent spies to report on talks by Noam Chomsky, a noted critic of Israel.
22 May 2013
Noam Sheizaf: In an interview with the ‘New York Times,’ Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid rejects the idea of a settlement freeze or compromise on Jerusalem, instead offering an updated version of the Oslo Accord as an interim solution.
22 May 2013
Annie Robbins: Lebanon's Arab Idol 2013 competition isn't over, but it's already made a star of 22-year-old finalist Mohammed Assaf, a Palestinian student from Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza, a sensation causing swooning hearts all across the Arab world with his renditions of love songs and patriotic Palestinian songs.
15 May 2013
When the esteemed physicist Stephen Hawking announced his decision to boycott Israel’s Presidential Conference, a gathering of politicians, scholars, and other high-profile figures scheduled for June, the response was as predictable as the movement of the cosmos that inspired Hawking’s career.
15 May 2013
With the onset of occupation in 1967, Israeli authorities began to pursue a policy of physical, political and economic segregation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), which continues apace today.
15 May 2013
David Kenner: In an exclusive conversation with Khaled Meshaal, the Hamas chief talks about how Assad should have listened to his advice, and why he’s not “bloodthirsty” or “against” Jews.
15 May 2013
Susan Abulhawa: One can cite endless examples of Israeli appropriation of everything Palestinian – land and home, heritage and culture, hummus and couscous, narrative and history. Now, we see an example of appropriation even of our deepest collective wound. When and how did the Nakba become the purview of Israelis?
15 May 2013
Several Palestinians were injured by tear gas on Tuesday during a rally marking Nakba Day, which kicked off from Bethlehem's Duheisha refugee camp.
15 May 2013
Philip Weiss: This shocking story, of yet another "huge humiliation" of a non-Jew at Ben Gurion airport, was posted by Mira Awad, an Israeli Palestinian singer, on her Facebook page, in Hebrew, today. Ami Kaufman at +972 provided a translation of the entry, and notes that Awad is a celebrity in Israel.
15 May 2013
Noam Sheizaf: The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories has clarified that the “forbidden” buffer zone in Gaza strip stretches 300 meters from the fence (the Israeli border), and not 100 meters as it previously announced. Civilians who enter the area risk being shot by the army.
15 May 2013
Adam Horowitz: Last week we reported Israel supporters were pressuring the Newseum to drop two Palestinian journalists, Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama, from its yearly event honoring reporters killed in the line of duty. Al-Kumi and Salama worked for Al-Aqsa television and were killed in the Israeli assault on Gaza last November.
15 May 2013
Rosemary Sayigh: Tragedy and resistance have been linked to Palestinians’ history since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and it is no surprise that there is an organic relationship between the current Arab uprisings and Palestinian resistance. Yet the Arab uprisings have exploded the post-1948 framework of existence of those Palestinians who live in the Arab world as refugees.
15 May 2013
Israeli minister of defense Moshe Yaalon has given orders to suspend construction of a new Palestinian city in the Jordan Valley after settlers protested an earlier decision to pass lands in Area C to the Palestinian Authority.
15 May 2013
Yousef Munayyer: Thank you for your editorial regarding physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to heed the Palestinian boycott call. You are right to note that this is nonviolent resistance.
15 May 2013
Clashes broke out today between Palestinians marking the Nakba, and Israeli security officials.
8 May 2013
Harriet Sherwood and Matthew Kalman: Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
8 May 2013
Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a conference hosted by the Israeli president, Shimon Peres, in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Is he right to do so?
8 May 2013
Israeli police detain Mohammed Ahmad Hussein on suspicion of involvement in a "disturbance" in the Old City.
8 May 2013
Israel has not notified the PLO of any changes to its settlement activity, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Tuesday, as Israeli media reported a new moratorium on settler homes in the West Bank.
8 May 2013
The Israeli Ministerial Committee on Legislation passed a draft law yesterday regulating Bedouin settlement in the Negev known as the "Prawer Plan", which will allow the seizure of approximately 700,000 dunams of the Negev and the destruction of 40 unrecognised villages.
8 May 2013
Syria on Sunday condemned the airstrikes carried out by Israel, which targeted a batch of Iranian-made missiles believed to be bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, as a 'violation of international law' that risked destabilising the region.
8 May 2013
Layan Masri and Loor Awwad: Like all other Palestinian villages in the Jordan Valley, Al Hadidiya struggles to supply itself with water. Instead of taps and sinks, yellow, rusty water tankers are omnipresent, scattered amid the tents and sheep pens.
8 May 2013
Allison Degger: Until last week the Arab world's position on Israeli borders was firm. Then Secretary of State John Kerry visited the Middle East and the Arab League reversed its stance on settlements, backing "land swaps" between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
8 May 2013
Saed Bannoura: The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported Monday that the Israeli Prison Authority is demanding Palestinian political prisoners to pay for their own medical expenses, and refused to provide them with the needed medical equipment or medications.
8 May 2013
Isabel Kershner: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has quietly suspended the issuing of bids for new settlement construction, according to a watchdog group, in an apparent gesture to Secretary of State John Kerry as he works to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
8 May 2013
Daryl Meador: Approximately ten young Palestinians gathered at the Sharek Youth Forum in Ramallah to spend an entire day drawing and writing graphic novels chronicling anecdotes of their lives living under Israeli occupation. It was the third and last day of an intensive workshop run by young Palestinian and international volunteers as part of the new initiative Palestine Through Graphics.
8 May 2013
Dr. Sara Roy, who is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University, discusses the ongoing dismemberment of the Palestinian nation and the paradigm shift that must occur to address this issue in "Dispossessing Palestine."
1 May 2013
Hundreds of Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinians across the occupied West Bank following the Tuesday morning stabbing of a settler by a local man. Salam al-Zaghal, 24, stabbed his victim and then used the settler's gun to shoot at police before being wounded and taken to hospital under armed guard.
1 May 2013
Steven Lee Myers and Jodi Rudoren: Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday embraced a proposal by the Arab League to revive peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians as “a very big step forward,” but initial reactions suggested that the new initiative might have difficulty penetrating the years-long impasse.
1 May 2013
Israel will keep refusing to negotiate on the basis of a total withdrawal from land it seized during the 1967 Six-Day War, an Israeli minister said Wednesday after the Arab League modified its peace plan.
1 May 2013
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that an Israeli withdrawal would not bring peace with the Palestinians because the heart of the conflict was their refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
1 May 2013
In the first bill to be proposed in support of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, a Member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home Party [Bayit Yehudi] - a partner in the coalition government - has asked that the Knesset's agenda include discussions of a bill permitting settlers to open fire on Palestinians they believe are attacking them against a nationalist backdrop.
1 May 2013
Emma Bonino, Italy’s new foreign minister, has been lobbying for Israel to be admitted into the European Union for more than a decade.
1 May 2013
Or Kashti: A new study suggests that teaching the narrative from the Palestinian perspective does not weaken the students' national identity, whereas the current approach perpetuates intolerance.
1 May 2013
On the night of April 9, 1948, over 100 men, women, children and elderly Palestinians were killed in Deir Yassin during an operation by Israeli underground militias. In contrast to the Palestinian narrative, which claims that the massacre was motivated by hatred and vengeance, the Israeli narrative describes another of the necessary battles of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1 May 2013
Many Palestinians seek more effective and democratic representation, and to this end advocate reform of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). However, Osamah Khalil warned last month, in "Who are You?": The PLO and the Limits of Representation, that attempts at reform would end up saving a leadership that had lost its legitimacy and argued that a new representative body is needed to achieve Palestinian rights.
1 May 2013
Robert Mackey: As my colleagues Isabel Kershner and Fares Akram report, the tension of daily life in the occupied West Bank exploded into deadly violence on Tuesday, when a knife-wielding Palestinian man attacked and killed an Israeli settler at a bus stop. The attacker, identified as Salam Zaghal, a 24-year-old who recently spent three years in jail for throwing stones, then seized the dead man’s pistol and engaged in a shootout with police officers.
22 April 2013
Maher Abukhater: With the Boston Marathon bombings on their mind, hundreds of Palestinian and international runners participated Sunday in what was billed as the first Palestinian marathon.
22 April 2013
Christa Case Bryant: The two men behind one of Gaza's most famous kenafeh shops spent more than decade in Israeli prison for conspiracy to murder and planting bombs.
22 April 2013
A new Yesh Din report examines the use of outposts as a means for seizing control of Palestinian land. The report uses the outpost of Adei Ad as a case study to illustrate the manner in which the establishment and growth of an outpost prevent Palestinian farmers from working their land.
22 April 2013
Bill Stamets: The Chicago Palestine Film Festival offers indelible images and intimate perspectives on the Palestinian experience. Screening through May 2 at two Loop venues, this politically accented fest is a project of the Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society, with support from Electronic Intifada and the Chicago Arab Heritage Council.
22 April 2013
Malak Hasan: A Palestinian short film was one of nine films selected from among 3500 short films from 132 countries to compete at the Cannes Film Festival scheduled for 26 May, according to the Cannes Film Festival website.
22 April 2013
Sarah Irving: Around the walls of the main gallery at London’s Mosaic Rooms hang images of broken graves, bearing inscriptions in Arabic. On some, the headstones have been smashed to pieces; on others, the covers of tombs have been removed or cracked so that skulls, limb bones and ribcages are visible.
22 April 2013
Ryvka Barnard: People tuned into news from Palestine are often surprised to hear that one of the occupied West Bank’s main industries is tourism. Tourism has provided livelihoods for people in many cities in historic Palestine for centuries; there was even a tour guide’s guild in early Ottoman Jerusalem. Palestine has long been a destination for religious pilgrims, and particularly Christian tourists have continued making pilgrimages, constituting the vast majority of the tourists entering...
22 April 2013
The Hamas movement has been holding a series of closed-door meetings in the Qatari capital of Doha to distribute positions on the new members of its politburo, says senior leader Ahmed Yousif.
22 April 2013
Jack Khoury: Shift from Egypt to Turkey reflects increasingly distant relations between Cairo and Ramallah, Palestinian sources tell Al-Aharam.
15 April 2013
Charles Levinson: Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's resignation removes a trusted Washington ally from power and threatens to roil Palestinian politics just as the Obama Administration ramps up a new peace push in the region.
15 April 2013
Glenn Greenwald: A bill introduced by the California Democrat would uniquely exempt Israel from long-standing requirements imposed on all other nations.
15 April 2013
A Gaza rights group is criticizing Israel's military prosecutor for deciding not to press charges in an airstrike that killed a dozen Palestinian civilians during a November offensive against Hamas militants.
15 April 2013
Israeli soldiers took to tear gas in order to disperse a protest in the occupied West Bank. Scores of Palestinian youths clashed with soldiers, protesting the brutal beating of a 60-year-old former judge.
15 April 2013
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird’s meeting with an Israeli minister in annexed Arab east Jerusalem this week was a “slap in the face” to Palestinians, a Palestinian official said Friday.
15 April 2013
Chaim Levinson: In public appeal, group including Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua says it sympathizes with Samer Issawi's cause, worry his death 'will add another facet of tragedy and desperation' to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
15 April 2013
Palestinian officials Saturday urged members of the foreign press in Israel to seek the truth about living conditions of 4800 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails and not to take the Israeli version for granted.
15 April 2013
Mark LeVine: Microwork centred on the internet can allow Palestinians to work from their jail cells, offering them subsistence wages.
15 April 2013
Following their expulsion from Palestine in 1948, many Palestinian intellectuals, businessmen, and craftspeople fled to Syria and established themselves as an integral part of Syrian society. Today that life has been broken and many Palestinian refugees from Syria have joined the ranks of Lebanon’s Palestinian refugees, who some call the “forgotten people.”
10 April 2013
U.S secretary of state expresses optimism after round of talks in Jerusalem and Ramallah, but offers few specifics.
10 April 2013
Batsheva Sobelman: The Jerusalem District Court sentenced an American-born Israeli to two life sentences and another 30 years in jail for murdering two Palestinians and additional crimes Tuesday.
10 April 2013
Former Palestinian prisoner and hunger striker Thaer Halahla, 35, was rearrested in the West Bank on Wednesday, nearly a year after his release, a Palestinian official said.
10 April 2013
Haggai Matar: Physicians are extremely worried by the deteriorating medical condition of Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi, who has not put food in his mouth for more than half a year.
10 April 2013
An Israeli court on Monday sentenced a Palestinian cartoonist to five months in jail and ordered him to pay a 10,000 shekel fine, his lawyer said.
10 April 2013
President Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor for communications and information technology Sabri Saydam Sunday said that Israel decided to respond to the cyber attacks against it by arresting several Palestinian activists.
10 April 2013
Dina Elmuti: Transcribing the vivid details of the account engraved into the fabric of her memory, I am transfixed by all that she’s held onto for 65 years. From paper to pulse, I write the story buried deep in her consciousness to affirm her truth. Without her, it never would be written at all.
10 April 2013
Robert Fisk: The Long View: This exhibition of the work of the first Palestinian photographer helps fulfil the Palestinian narrative, but it also shows a country that will never return.
10 April 2013
Hadani Ditmars: It took the murder of his niece to galvanize Miko Peled, son of IDF General Matti Peled who later became a champion of Palestinian rights, to follow a journey that has led him to embrace a democratic one-state solution.
10 April 2013
Nadezhda Kevorkova: One of the headquarters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command is located in a basement in central Damascus. All secrecy measures are there: one cannot drive through the area; hidden guerillas everywhere, and several dozen CCTV cameras. This is the Palestinian group whose headquarters and weapons were seized in December last year by the Syrian militants in Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria near Damascus.
10 April 2013
Scott L. Morgensen: Critics of Israeli pinkwashing in the United States and Canada have increasingly engaged in comparative critiques of settler colonialism. Queers Against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto has invoked this critique for many years.
3 April 2013
Kareem Khadder: A well-known Palestinian prisoner died of cancer in Israeli custody on Tuesday, sparking outrage among Palestinian groups who accuse Israel of denying him treatment.
3 April 2013
Israeli warplanes bombed the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, causing damage but no injuries, in the first airstrike on the enclave since a November ceasefire.
3 April 2013
Barak Ravid: United States Secretary of State John Kerry will return to Israel and the Palestinian territories for the second time in less than two weeks, as part of the Americans’ efforts to kick-start the long-stalled peace process.
3 April 2013
Hamas passes new law ordering gender segregation in schools that will go into effect in September.
3 April 2013
A group of Palestinian activists have paid for New York subway ads calling for an end to “Israeli Apartheid” and asking the US to stop providing foreign assistance to Israel. The ads have sparked outrage of Jewish groups, but will remain for four weeks.
3 April 2013
Anna Lekas Miller: On March 30, 1976 the Israeli government announced a plan to confiscate 20,000 dunums of Palestinian land in the Galilee region. Palestinians called for a general strike, taking to the streets en masse in the first Palestinian act of mass resistance inside of Israel. Six Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) that day.
3 April 2013
Noam Sheizaf: I went to the weekly demo against the Wall in the Palestinian village Bil’in yesterday, after several months that I haven’t visited the West Bank at all (I try not to travel beyond the Green Line when it’s not for work). A colleague visiting from the U.S. joined me, and we arrived at the village shortly after noon.
3 April 2013
Geoffrey Macnab: Judge me by my films not my gender, Annemarie Jacir tells Geoffrey Macnab.
3 April 2013
Gili Cohen: 25 unauthorized outposts are guarded by a special force tasked with 'community protection,'whose soldiers typically spend a full week at a time guarding and protecting the outpost where they are stationed.
27 March 2013
Saed Bannoura: Palestinian prisoner Samer al Issawi is near death, according to doctors, after spending 236 days without food to challenge the Israeli policy of 'administrative detention', in which Palestinians are imprisoned for extended periods without trial.
27 March 2013
Ryan Rodrick Beiler: During the annual Palm Sunday procession, Palestinian Christians protest permits delayed and denied during the Easter season.
27 March 2013
Few Palestinians will doubt Barack Obama's commitment to a negotiated two-state settlement of their conflict with Israel following his brief visit to Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority. What will worry them, though, are the terms.
27 March 2013
Christa Case Bryant: Speaking in Ramallah today, President Obama reversed US insistence on an Israeli settlement freeze before peace talks could begin. The reversal highlights Palestinian frustrations.
27 March 2013
Robert Mackey: The 24-year-old student from Israel’s Arab minority who interrupted President Obama’s speech in Jerusalem on Thursday explained his comments and why he made them in an interview with The Lede on Friday.
27 March 2013
Zvi Bar'el: Israel will transfer tens of millions of dollars to a humanitarian fund set up by the Turkish government to compensate for the deaths of nine Turkish activists aboard a flotilla bound for Gaza in 2010.
27 March 2013
Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani called for a $1 billion fund for Palestinians in Jerusalem during the opening session of the Arab Summit on Tuesday, which was dominated by events in Syria.
27 March 2013
Bassam Haddad, Noura Erakat, Jack Saba: Since its establishment, Israel has distinguished the persons under its civil and military jurisdiction based on religion. Throughout Israel Proper and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), comprised of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Israel applies a different set of laws to its Jewish and non-Jewish inhabitants respectively.
27 March 2013
Linah Alsaafin: Khaled Daraghmeh always insists that the youth and visitors who volunteer to work on his property every week fill their bags with the herbs and fruit grown on his land.
27 March 2013
Omar Dajani: In Jerusalem yesterday, President Obama made a poignant plea for courage, fairness, and empathy to the Israeli people. It was an inspiring speech. But there was one line-just half a sentence-that left me scratching my head: "Palestinians," the President declared, "must recognize that Israel will be a Jewish state."
18 March 2013
Osamah Khalil: For over four decades the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has been internationally recognized as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. Yet, since 1994 the PLO has only existed in name only. While many Palestinians ask who represents them and seek to revive the PLO, Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Osamah Khalil argues that such an action will not lead to greater representation and accountability.
18 March 2013
Marc DAOU: After weeks of negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached a deal with secular centrists and a pro-settler party to form a new government. FRANCE 24 asked peace activist Ofer Bronchtein how long this uneasy alliance could last.
18 March 2013
Ayman Sharawna, on hunger strike since July, signs deal with Israel, freeing him to exile in Gaza Strip for 10 years.
18 March 2013
Ari Rabinovitch: Israel's military plans to vacate land worth $14 billion and move most of its headquarters from the heart of Tel Aviv in a $7 billion project intended to alleviate an acute national shortage of room for housing.
18 March 2013
Ben Ehrenreich: On the evening of Feb. 10, the living room of Bassem Tamimi’s house in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh was filled with friends and relatives smoking and sipping coffee, waiting for Bassem to return from prison. His oldest son, Waed, 16, was curled on the couch with his 6-year-old brother, Salam, playing video games on the iPhone that the prime minister of Turkey had given their sister, Ahed.
18 March 2013
Barak Ravid: Official at high-level U.S. government meetings says Obama frustrated with fruitlessness of the peace process, claiming it would be pointless to pressure the Israeli government at this time.
18 March 2013
Nadia Hijab: If the US stops Genie Energy from going ahead with oil contract, it invites the wrath of myriad pro-Israel groups. The schedule for President Barack Obama's first visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories next week has just been released and it is no surprise that the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is not on his travel agenda.
18 March 2013
Adam Horowitz: Ten years ago today American activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli Caterpillar D9 bulldozer as she tried to protect a Palestinian home from demolition in Rafah, Gaza. Her death, and selfless act of heroism, has galvanized and inspired millions worldwide in the decade since her death.
18 March 2013
Ali Abunimah: Israelis, including at least one person identifying himself as a soldier, reacted with genocidal joy on Facebook to the horrifying news this morning that 17 Palestinians returning from a pilgrimage had been killed in a bus accident in Jordan and dozens more injured. Early reports had put the number of dead at 14.
18 March 2013
“As the daughter of a Rabbi who previously fought in the Israeli military, I am deeply offended that The Crimson keeps publishing pieces that label our PSC activism on campus as anti-Semitic. This is defamatory, and they should be ashamed of themselves.” -Hannah Schafer, MPP ‘14
18 March 2013
Noam Sheizaf: Ben Ehrenreich’s report from Nabi Saleh is a rare feature in a media world that has grown accustomed to telling the story of the occupation through Israeli eyes.
18 March 2013
Ilene Prusher: "When an Arab attacks a Jew, he’s a terrorist, he’s been taught to hate. When a Jew attacks an Arab, he’s just a loner, an oddball, a bad egg. But we’ve seen so many bad eggs at this point that something here has begun to stink."
12 March 2013
Rashid Khalidi: What should Barack Obama, who is to visit Israel next Wednesday for the first time in his presidency, do about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
11 March 2013
A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 230 days has refused an offer from the Israeli authorities to deport him immediately to the Gaza Strip.
11 March 2013
Majeddo Israeli prisons administration Sunday cut water off prisoners and banned family visits after they returned meals in solidarity with hunger-striking prisoners, said Palestinian Prisoner Club (PPC).
11 March 2013
An Israeli military court on Monday rejected an appeal to release jailed Palestinian cartoonist Muhammad Sabanah, a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoners Society said.
11 March 2013
The bride, a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, the groom, a Palestinian from the West Bank, accompanied by tens of activists approached Hizma checkpoint from its two sides and demanded their right to love and live without racist and separation policies.
11 March 2013
Clashes broke out between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank and at a holy site in Jerusalem on Friday as tensions rose just weeks before a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama.
11 March 2013
Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law, a report by the United Nations Children’s Fund said.
11 March 2013
Khaled Diab: Inaction on the Palestinian-Israeli front is not an option if Obama wants to avoid escalation and build his legacy. His first step should be to announce publicly that the discredited Oslo process will be abandoned, and to push referenda-led, incremental actions towards peace.
11 March 2013
Zarefa Ali: Storytelling has been used for centuries to narrate and interpret the world. In the Palestinian context, the power of storytelling lies in preserving Palestinian memories and in countering the dominant Zionist narrative of the Nakba (literally, the catastrophe, the Palestinian dispossession and expulsion by Israel in 1948). Unfortunately, the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Education and Higher Education has not incorporated Palestinian refugee stories about the Nakba in...
11 March 2013
Joesph Levine: I was raised in a religious Jewish environment, and though we were not strongly Zionist, I always took it to be self-evident that “Israel has a right to exist.” Over the years I came to question this consensus and to see that the general fealty to it has seriously constrained open debate on the issue, one of vital importance not just to the people directly involved — Israelis and Palestinians — but to the conduct of our own foreign policy and, more important, to the safety of...
11 March 2013
Sawsan Zaher: By ruling that Bedouin citizens of Israel have only the right to ‘minimum access’ to water rather than ‘equal access,’ the Israeli Supreme Court established that the rule of law does not apply to Bedouin citizens. The resulting situation is intolerable for a country that claims to be a democracy, but is fitting for a country that defines itself only as a ‘Jewish state.’
4 March 2013
Philip Weiss: Here is an important story from Palestine: Nour Joudah, 25, a Palestinian-American masters graduate of Georgetown who teaches at the Friends School in Ramallah, which has received millions in U.S. aid, was denied entry into Israel on Monday.
4 March 2013
Chaim Levinson: Afikim bus company to have special buses for Palestinian workers commuting from the West Bank to jobs in central Israel; announcement follows complaints from settlers that Palestinians are a security risk.
4 March 2013
Larry Abramson: The streets of Gaza are busy, but they are also crumbling. Since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Israel has maintained tight limits on shipments of anything that could be used for military purposes. That includes basic building materials that could be used for bunkers and rocket launching sites.
4 March 2013
The Hamas-run government in the Gaza Strip has decided to take control of one of the most important border crossings with Israel, officials said.
4 March 2013
Samer Issawi: In jail, my fellow hunger strikers and I are doing battle against the Israeli occupation that humiliates our people.
4 March 2013
Martin Rogers: An international marathon has become the latest focal point to threaten the delicate political balance between Israel and Palestine, with the International Olympic Committee and two American companies getting caught up in tensions regarding the route of the race in Jerusalem.
4 March 2013
Bruce Upbin: Forty percent of Palestinians are clinically depressed, a rate unmatched anywhere in the word. It’s more than triple that of the U.S., ten times higher than in the U.K., and four to eight times higher than in Scandinavia, where the sun doesn’t shine for a good part of the year. For Palestinian neuroscientist Mohammad Herzallah, this epidemic is an opportunity, if a tragic one, because it has made his country an ideal place to do groundbreaking research into the effects of...
4 March 2013
Israeli police have questioned three women in relation to an assault in Jerusalem last week on a Palestinian women.
4 March 2013
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was evacuated after inhaling tear gas on Friday during a demonstration in the West Bank against Israel's security barrier, and protesters clashed with Israeli troops at other rallies held to support Palestinian prisoners on hunger strikes.
4 March 2013
This weekend, Jewish Voice for Peace and Avaaz are unveiling 100 billboard ads in major subway stations across downtown Washington, DC, showcasing the faces of Jewish Americans saying boldly: “AIPAC does not speak for me. Most Jewish Americans are propeace. AIPAC is not.”
4 March 2013
Noam Sheizaf: Dennis Ross presents a framework for renewing the peace process, which he apparently lifted directly from the Israeli PM’s hard disk – including de facto recognition of permanent Israeli control over eight percent of the West Bank.
25 February 2013
An autopsy has revealed that Arafat Jaradat died of extreme torture in Israeli custody and did not have a cardiac arrest, the PA Minister of Detainee Affairs said Sunday.
25 February 2013
Thousands gather in West Bank's Sair town to mourn Arafat Jaradat who died under disputed circumstances in Israeli jail.
25 February 2013
Clashes erupted Saturday in the West Bank, with Jewish settlers shooting two Palestinian demonstrators in the northern village of Kusra, an Israeli military official and Palestinian residents said.
25 February 2013
Yossi Gurvitz: The attack against Palestinians in Qusra yesterday was not a ‘clash,’ it was a pogrom – and, as usual, it took place under the aegis of the IDF.
25 February 2013
Gideon Levy: Now you demonstrate? After all, we've already told you we no longer care what happens to you.
25 February 2013
Michael Martinez: The Palestinian maker of a film nominated for an Oscar was briefly detained by U.S. officials who questioned the validity of his Academy Awards invitation as he and his family arrived in Los Angeles for this weekend's event, his publicist told CNN on Wednesday.
25 February 2013
Barak Ravid: While neither local documentary won an Oscar this year, the hoopla surrounding the films helped wake Israelis up to the ugly reality of the occupation.
25 February 2013
Sharif Nashashibi: “The Egypt of today isn’t the Egypt of yesterday ... (We) won’t leave Gaza on its own,” President Mohammed Mursi said in November amid Israel’s bombardment of the Palestinian territory. It is ironic, then, that the Egypt of today has been actively partaking with Israel in the blockade of Gaza, much like it did under dictator Hosni Mubarak.
25 February 2013
Curtis Bell: The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama does a good job of showing what blacks endured before the civil rights victories of the 1960s. I visited there last fall and was especially struck by one particular image — a 1926 map of the small and isolated patches of Birmingham where city zoning regulations allowed blacks to live.
25 February 2013
Omar Barghouti: In many media reports on the recent panel held at Brooklyn College on the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel, BDS was subjected to relentless vilification and unfounded allegations.
18 February 2013
Israeli soldiers fire teargas as Palestinian demonstrators throw stones during solidarity rally for Samer Issawi.
18 February 2013
At least 18 Israeli airstrikes during the fighting in Gaza in November 2012 were in apparent violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today after a detailed investigation into the attacks. These airstrikes killed at least 43 Palestinian civilians, including 12 children.
18 February 2013
Paul Hansen: Two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his older brother Muhammad were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike.
18 February 2013
A pro-Palestinian group at Brooklyn College (BC) in New York strongly rejected allegations that a campus event last week on boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel was anti-Semitic, a statement by the group said on Friday.
18 February 2013
Hugh Naylor: Zuhair Al Manasrah sat in his office where he manages plantations of 20,000 date palms and described the risk he took as a Palestinian investing in agriculture.
18 February 2013
Fares Akram: Palestinian officials on Monday began updating voter registration records in the Gaza Strip, a critical step toward ending the rift between the Fatah Party, which governs in the West Bank, and the militant Hamas movement, which controls Gaza.
18 February 2013
Lawyers representing human rights organizations are planning to challenge in court an Israeli military order that allows a military committee to sentence released prisoners based on secret evidence, a press statement said Monday.
18 February 2013
Jason Ditz: The process of forming a new government is still slowly moving along, but Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett, whose far-right party is seen as almost certain to be part of the next government, made his first parliamentary speech last week, rejecting the notion of a free Palestinian state on religious grounds.
18 February 2013
James Zogby: In what can only be described as chutzpah, David Keyes, the executive director of a group called Advancing Human Rights, penned a column in The New York Times last week called Palestine's Democracy Deficit.
18 February 2013
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) is taking measures to sue an Israeli colony resident who set up an airstrip in the colony of Alumot near the city of Nablus in the West Bank.
18 February 2013
Israel continues to withhold tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority, an official said Monday, as unions in the West Bank organize strike action this week over unpaid salaries.
18 February 2013
Ali Abunimah: This disturbing image shows the back of the head of a child or young man as seen in the crosshairs of a rifle. The photo was posted on the personal Instagram account of Mor Ostrovski, a 20-year old Israeli soldier in a sniper unit.
18 February 2013
Yossi Gurvitz: Israeli democracy is being severely compromised by the army’s collaboration with the settlers, and the fact that more and more Israeli citizens now see the occupation as the natural order of things.
11 February 2013
Stephen Farrell: Pro-Palestinian speakers drew anger and support over a talk by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement at Brooklyn College. The group calls for sanctions on Israel.
11 February 2013
Alex Kane: Dov Hikind was in his element in front of Brooklyn College last week, the idyllic school that is now ground zero for a raging controversy over academic freedom. Brooklyn's state assemblyman, an alumnus of the school, was sputtering mad at college officials for allowing what he says is an “anti-Semitic” hate fest to take place at the school tonight.
11 February 2013
Kristofer Petersen-Overton: There is something particularly poisonous about the kind of political opportunism on display at Brooklyn College right now. Unfortunately, it's all déjà vu for me and my former colleagues in the political science department.
11 February 2013
Karen Matthews: Brooklyn College, facing criticism for hosting an event with speakers who advocate boycotting Israel, says it will hear from other points of view in the coming weeks.
11 February 2013
Vita Bekker: An Israeli rights group said yesterday that the number of Israeli soldiers indicted by the army for crimes against Palestinians had dropped significantly.
11 February 2013
Ian Black: 'Cooperation' with Israel over West Bank water supplies helped consolidate illegal settlements and undermine the two-state solution, a new study shows.
11 February 2013
A United Nations agency today expressed concern over the rising number of deaths and injuries among Palestinian refugees in Syria, following reports of 12 casualties last Thursday in a Damascus suburb.
11 February 2013
Noam Sheizaf: Reports on Syria have become a public commodity in the political conversation regarding Israel/Palestine, and the Palestinian refugees in Syria have become an object in a debate, not living people that need urgent help.
11 February 2013
Alaa Tartir: The Palestinian Authority (PA) began to establish export-oriented industrial zones when it was created some two decades ago, partly in response to donor recommendations and partly in line with the neoliberal policies it was introducing.
11 February 2013
Judith Butler: Despite a campaign to silence them, philsophers Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti spoke at Brooklyn College on Thursday night. In an exclusive, The Nation presents the text of Butler's remarks.
4 February 2013
Palestinian activists create a new village, Al Manatir, on private Palestinian land near the West Bank village of Burin threatened by nearby Israeli settlements. Israeli forces violently evacuate the area, resulting in arrests and injuries.
4 February 2013
An Israeli court has issued severe sentences against eight Palestinian minors (aged less than 16 years old) who were arrested more than a year ago for throwing stones which broke a settler's car window.
4 February 2013
Nir Hasson: Changes at the top of the Jerusalem District police are being felt in the eastern part of the capital. Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem have complained that the police, under New district commander Maj. Gen. Yossi Prienti, have been implementing an almost declared policy of collective punishment against neighborhoods considered too disruptive.
4 February 2013
Israeli forces in the West Bank have arrested at least 20 members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
4 February 2013
Isabel Kershner: An academic study of the contents of Israeli and Palestinian Authority textbooks, to be published Monday, finds that each side generally presents the other as the enemy, but it undermines recent assertions by the Israeli government that Palestinian children are educated "to hate."
4 February 2013
Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights has hailed the report of the UNHRC's fact finding mission denouncing settlement activity in the Palestinian territories. The report was described by Euro-Mid as the most powerful international step against Israeli settlements.
4 February 2013
Ben White: In a report last month on Israel’s racist “Judaization” policies in the Negev, BBC reporter Tim Whewell wrote that “Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel are guaranteed full equality by law.”
4 February 2013
The International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory today published its findings on the implications Israeli settlements have upon the human rights of the Palestinian people. The report states that a multitude of the human rights of the Palestinians are violated in various forms and ways due to the existence of the settlements.
4 February 2013
Roya Rastegar: Written and directed by Cherien Dabis, May in the Summer -- which opened the 2013 U.S. Dramatic Competition of the Sundance Film Festival -- is a disarmingly humorous, sharply observed and deeply affecting story about a Palestinian-American writer, May, who returns to her childhood home in Jordan in preparation for her summertime wedding.
28 January 2013
Barbara Surk: When Syrian warplanes bombed a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus last December, Umm Sami rounded up her three sons, shut the windows and locked the doors so they could neither hear nor heed the call to arms by rebels and pro-government gunmen fighting in the streets.
28 January 2013
John Reed: At this week’s donor conference for Syria in Kuwait, one UN official will be championing the cause of a group of people caught up in the civil war whose plight is often overlooked: the country’s half a million Palestinian refugees.
28 January 2013
Harriet Sherwood: At least five unarmed young Palestinians, including a 21-year-old woman, have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers in 13 days since the start of the year, prompting mounting concern about the unwarranted use of live fire.
28 January 2013
Palestinians have said that continued Israeli settlement in occupied areas near Jerusalem will leave it with no choice but to take Tel Aviv to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague.
28 January 2013
Palestinians evinced weary indifference on Tuesday as Israelis voted in an election set to produce a hardline government keener to expand Jewish settlements on occupied land than seek peace.
28 January 2013
Zvi Bar'el: Hamas knows that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lost big in the recent elections, but it also knows that whatever government emerges from coalition-building talks in Jerusalem is not going to be any more open to negotiating with the Palestinians.
28 January 2013
An Israeli human rights group on Monday accused the military of “extensively and systematically” violating its own rules of engagement in suppressing Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank, contributing to dozens of deaths in recent years.
28 January 2013
Irene Nasser: Last week, I witnessed a remarkable victory for Palestinian unarmed civil resistance. Over a frigid January weekend, I joined hundreds of Palestinians in establishing Bab Al-Shams (literally ‘Gate of the Sun’), a new Palestinian village, erected on private Palestinian land near Jerusalem in the territory known as E1, which Israel has controversially slated for future settlement growth.
28 January 2013
Michele Kelemen: Secretary of State-designate John Kerry has suggested that the Obama administration will make a new push for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
28 January 2013
Israeli forces demolished at least four buildings and a sewage network in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan early Monday, locals said.
28 January 2013
Susan Rice said that the United States does not recognize the General Assembly vote in November 'as bestowing Palestinian 'statehood' or recognition.'
28 January 2013
Munir Nuseibah: The Palestinian authorities should immediately start implementing the right of return, beginning with Gaza and without waiting for Israel, argues Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Munir Nuseibah.
21 January 2013
Joel Greenberg: Of all the issues at stake in Israel’s election Tuesday, Iran’s nuclear program might have been expected to be high on the agenda, with the vote serving as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stance toward Iran, a subject of robust public debate. But the campaign has largely skirted the issue, along with another that is no less critical for Israel: the impasse in peace efforts with the Palestinians.
21 January 2013
Charlotte Silver: Recent statements by the Palestinian Authority declaring premonitions of the coming of an apartheid state in the likely event that Binyamin Netanyahu is re-elected have left many observers scratching their heads and questioning, yet again, the relevance of the nearly two decades-old titular government of the occupied Palestinian territories.
21 January 2013
John Ray: Something very curious is happening at the top of Israeli politics. Benyamin Netanyahu -- who has flown high as a hawk -- is in danger of looking a little dovish.
21 January 2013
In a move of high-tech civil disobedience, thousands of Israeli citizens are donating their right to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections to their Palestinian neighbors via Facebook. The political initiative, called Real Democracy, so far has over 1,400 followers and is allowing Israelis to "donate" their votes for the Palestinian cause, giving their second-class citizen compatriots an opportunity to participate in general elections on Tuesday.
21 January 2013
Geoff Dyer: More than any recent president, Barack Obama has had to deal with the cards he has been dealt. His first inauguration was suffused with the crisis swirling the globe and, even before he gives his second address, large parts of his second-term agenda have already been set for him.
21 January 2013
Palestinian activists have set up a protest camp in the West Bank to demonstrate against what they say is an Israeli land grab. They say they set up a mosque and several tents Friday in the village of Beit Iksa near Jerusalem.
21 January 2013
The IDF dismantled a Palestinian tent outpost northwest of Jerusalem on Monday, which had been erected in protest of Israeli settlement construction plans in the area.
21 January 2013
At least 20 Palestinians were injured in clashes between protesters and Palestinian security forces at a refugee camp in Ramallah, medical sources said on Monday.
21 January 2013
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian worker near the Erez crossing in north Gaza on Monday, medics said.
21 January 2013
Two Palestinians being held at the Cairo airport, apparently refused entry to Egypt, are at risk of deportation to Syria, Human Rights Watch said today. The man and his son would face indiscriminate violence and possible persecution if returned to Syria. The Egyptian authorities should not to return anyone to Syria at this time.
21 January 2013
Nadia Hijab: Your Jan. 11 editorial “Financial Crisis in the West Bank” is absolutely right: This problem should not be “swept under the rug.” But blaming rich Arab countries for the Palestinians’ financial situation is not the answer.
14 January 2013
Maher Abukhater: About 250 Palestinian activists set up dozens of tents Friday on a large plot of land east of Jerusalem that Israel has designated as the site of a new settlement.
14 January 2013
Karl Vick: Sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Sunday, several hundred Israeli police officers in riot gear moved on a cluster of tents on a West Bank hilltop. Their target resembled the mainly Jewish campsites that pop up like mushrooms in the higher elevations of Palestinian territory, stippling the ridges that run from north to south across the striking biblical landscape.
14 January 2013
Isabel Kershner: Israeli security forces evicted scores of Palestinian activists before dawn on Sunday from a tent encampment they had set up set up two days earlier in a strategic piece of Israeli-occupied West Bank territory known as E1, east of Jerusalem, where Israel says it plans to build settler homes.
14 January 2013
Maayan Lubell: Entrenched in what they view as their Biblical heartland, the hard-line Jewish settlers of Hebron look forward with delight to next week's Israeli election.
14 January 2013
Nour Malas and Joshua Mitnick: Fighting in Damascus has sparked fears of a mass exodus of Palestinians toward neighbors Lebanon and Jordan, where officials concerned about stability have moved to limit their entry.
14 January 2013
Israeli forces shot and wounded a Palestinian farmer in northern Gaza Strip Monday, marking a violation of a recent Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.
14 January 2013
Malak Hasan: A Palestinian film portraying the life of a Palestinian photographer and his son in a village witnessing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on daily basis was nominated for an Oscar in the documentary feature category.
14 January 2013
German rapper Bushido sparked controversy when he changed his Twitter profile picture to a map of the Middle East next to text that said "Free Palestine."
14 January 2013
Charlotte Silver: 2012 did not turn out to be Israel's finest year, diplomatically, from being called out for its war-mongering against Iran to its defeat (however symbolic) at the United Nations General Assembly's vote on Palestine's bid for statehood. But that didn't stop its homeland security industry from coming out ahead in the global market.
14 January 2013
Catherine Weibel: In the small patch of land that runs along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, the sound of generators roars amid hundreds of white tents planted in the landscape of sand and bullet-riddled ruins.
14 January 2013
Ali Abunimah: A New York Times headline accidentally told the truth today about Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, before it was 'fixed.'
7 January 2013
Joshua Mitnick: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas officially changed his government's name to "the State of Palestine" in an attempt to implement - even if only symbolically - a recent United Nations vote granting it the status of nonmember observer state.
7 January 2013
PLO leaders, the Free Syria Army and Syrian regime forces are in ongoing talks to finalize an agreement to allow Palestinian refugees who fled fighting in a Damascus camp to return, a PLO official said.
7 January 2013
Ilan Ben Zion: Water from weekend rains said unable to drain away from lands because of concrete section of wall abutting farmlands.
7 January 2013
Nicola Perugini: The horizon of human rights "could not be sufficient alone to achieve liberation from settler colonialism."
7 January 2013
Shahd Abusalama: Ayman Shrawna has suspended his 178-day hunger strike for ten days, as he has been promised by the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) that it would review his case and release him by the beginning of next year. He is allowing himself to have only fluids, but has threatened to continue his strike if the IPS fails to fulfill its promises. This leaves Samer Issawi alone in this battle of empty stomachs, continuing his historic hunger strike that has lasted for 145 days.
7 January 2013
Noam Sheizaf: Just as an American wouldn’t imagine voting for a party that does not accept blacks, progressive Israelis should only consider voting for parties that challenge the separation between Palestinian and Jews.
7 January 2013
Sharif Nashashibi: The biggest threat Israel faces from Palestine’s upgraded U.N. status - and the primary reason for its furious lobbying against it - is the prospect of the Palestinians applying to join the International Criminal Court.
7 January 2013
Taybeh, which is Arabic for ‘delicious’, is a village 35km north of Jerusalem in the Occupied West Bank. It also happens to be the name-sake of a tasty drop of alcohol that is gaining a glowing reputation for its crisp, fresh taste, despite its unusual roots.
7 January 2013
Carrie Dann: President Barack Obama named his choices for two of the nation's prominent national security posts Monday, teeing up a likely confirmation struggle over his pick for the Secretary of Defense, a position that's historically drawn overwhelming bipartisan support.
7 January 2013
Max Fisher: The arguments for and against the Obama administration’s anticipated nomination of Chuck Hagel for defense secretary seem to turn on the premise that he would represent a dramatic shift on defense spending and on two major foreign policy issues: Iran and Israel. The merits of those policies aside for the moment, let’s look at the “dramatic shift” component of this thinking. How do Hagel’s positions compare with those of former defense secretary Robert M. Gates?
7 January 2013
Jon Swaine: Barack Obama was on Sunday night accused by senior Republicans of insulting Israel for preparing to unveil a critic of “Jewish lobby” intimidation in Washington as his next defence secretary on Monday.
17 December 2012
Caroline Davies: Yousri al-Jamal and Mamoun Wazwaz struck with rifle butts, forced to strip and attacked with teargas, news agency claims.
17 December 2012
Anne Barnard: Government forces for the first time hit Syria’s largest Palestinian refugee neighborhood with airstrikes on Sunday, killing at least eight people in the Yarmouk district of Damascus and driving dozens of formerly pro-government Palestinian fighters to defect to the rebels, fighters there said.
17 December 2012
President Mahmoud Abbas denounced on Sunday the killing of Palestinian refugees in Syria and called on the warring parties to avoid dragging the refugees into their internal conflict.
17 December 2012
Joel Greenberg: Formally stepping down Sunday to face corruption charges, Israel’s outspoken foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, predicted that he would soon return to his post after expedited legal proceedings.
17 December 2012
Amira Hass: If elections for Palestinian president were to take place today, and the candidates were Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, Haniyeh would win, a new Palestinian public opinion poll reveals.
17 December 2012
Pope Benedict told President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday the Vatican hoped the recent de facto recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations would spur the international community to find a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
17 December 2012
Sarah Ali: Tears pooled in her eyes as she began to talk. Maysa, one of my closest friends at college, happens to live a few meters away from the Prime Minister's Office in the Gaza Strip (5-10 meters away).
17 December 2012
Ali Abunimah: The offensiveness of the message needs no further elaboration, but Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem, will find it particularly galling given that it is Israel, with its wall surrounding their city, and other violent manifestations of the occupation, which has done most to strangle the home of the Nativity.
17 December 2012
Even by the miserable standards of the peace process, Israel's proposed new settlements are a disaster.
17 December 2012
Robert Mackey: A "Christmas thought," suggesting that if Jesus lived in the modern world he would "probably end up being lynched in Bethlehem by hostile Palestinians," was deleted from the official Facebook page of Israel’s embassy in Ireland on Monday, just a few hours after it was posted.
10 December 2012
Raji Sourani: On Human Rights Day, it's important to highlight that 64 years on, Palestinians are still waiting for justice.
10 December 2012
Arab states agreed to provide the Palestinian Authority with a $100 million monthly “financial safety net” to help President Mahmoud Abbas’ government cope with an economic crisis after the UN granted de facto statehood to Palestine, Reuters reported.
10 December 2012
Jimmy Carter: The United Nations General Assembly vote last week that overwhelmingly recognized Palestine as a state could serve as a stepping stone to relaunch the long moribund Middle East peace negotiations.
10 December 2012
Today, on UN Human Rights Day, we will hand in to Downing Street a petition signed by 4,883 people calling for action from our government on Palestinian child prisoners held by Israel. In June 2012 a group of senior UK lawyers published an FCO-funded independent report, Children in Military Custody, on the plight of Palestinian children detained by Israel.
10 December 2012
Josef Federman: The rising confidence and bellicosity of Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, combined with rapidly deteriorating relations with Israel's would-be peace partner in the West Bank, are raising jitters in Israel that a new Palestinian uprising could be near.
10 December 2012
The Palestinian president returned triumphantly to the West Bank on Sunday, receiving a boisterous welcome from thousands of cheering supporters at a rally celebrating his people's new acceptance to the United Nations.
10 December 2012
Mouin Rabbani: In hindsight, the popular uprising that erupted in the occupied Palestinian territories on 9 December 1987 and continued for six grueling yet heroic years makes perfect sense. Scholars, analysts and activists have demonstrated how a variety of factors came together to ripen conditions for the eruption of mass protest and its development into a sustained and organized rebellion.
10 December 2012
Daniel J. Solomon: During the American presidential race, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made little secret of his support for Mitt Romney. They were old friends. They shared the same deep-pocketed donors.
10 December 2012
Yolande Knell: Among the diverse sectarian and ethnic groups caught up in the uprising in Syria there are nearly 500,000 Palestinian refugees.
10 December 2012
With the triumphant arrival of Khalid Meshal, the leader of Hamas, the Islamist movement that runs Gaza, on December 7th, President Mahmoud Abbas could be forgiven for wondering who will remember his return from the United Nations armed with international recognition of Palestine as a non-member state.
3 December 2012
Britain and France have both summoned Israeli ambassadors in protest at Israel's decision to approve the construction of 3,000 new homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
3 December 2012
Anne Barnard: On the eve of the United Nations vote on whether to declare the Palestinian Authority a nonmember state, the leader of Hamas revived a long-percolating proposal for his militant party to join the Palestine Liberation Organization, the group that, with Israel, signed the Oslo Accord, which Hamas has long derided.
3 December 2012
A settler organization took over three apartments in a Palestinian-owned Jerusalem building on Monday, official news agency Wafa reported.
3 December 2012
This past weekend, the media reported that Israel has decided to advance the planning of thousands of apartments in the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, as part of the E-1 plan, in the area connecting the settlement to Jerusalem.
3 December 2012
Wyatt Black: On the morning of November 28th, numerous soldiers came to the village of Susiya in the South Hebron Hills, unannounced from the nearby settlement, which is also called Susiya. The army jeeps and construction equipment came rolling in around eight o’clock and quickly went to work without giving any information as to why they were invading someone’s private land, and proceeded to demolish a tent in the village.
3 December 2012
Ali Abunimah: Because the Palestinian Authority has no real control or sovereignty, anyone who wishes to go to the occupied West Bank can only do so with Israeli permission. This includes foreign visitors and thousands of Palestinians with third country passports who live or visit there.
3 December 2012
Amira Hass: Israel has arrested Hamas activitsts in the West Bank, among them a lawmaker who told Haaretz last week that the Palestinian reconciliation process in which he is involved would allow President Mahmoud Abbas to resume negotiations with Israel.
3 December 2012
PA president says he'll consider taking Israel to int'l court in case of "aggression," slams Israeli settlement plans in E-1.
3 December 2012
A survey conducted by the UNICEF showed that the recent Israeli war on the Gaza Strip affected the psychological health of children very badly.
3 December 2012
Kathy Kelly: Dr. T., a medical doctor, is a Palestinian living in Gaza City. He is still reeling from days of aerial bombardment. When I asked about the children in his community he told me his church would soon be making Christmas preparations to lift the children’s spirits.
3 December 2012
Chas W. Freeman: Many topics have been proposed for discussion in this session. In the brief time available to me as a panelist, I would like to put forward some thoughts about the control of narrative and the manipulation of information as an essential element of modern warfare.
3 December 2012
Ahmed Moor: The past several weeks have seen the Palestinian issue regain international prominence. Israeli attacks on Gaza, and Hamas' response to those attacks produced political benefits for the Islamic party, which caused some to argue that non-violence is a failed strategy for the Palestinians.
3 December 2012
Ir Amim: In response to the Palestinian statehood bid, the Israeli government has decided to promote zoning plans for the area known as E1, northeast of Jerusalem. The project is intended to link annexed East Jerusalem with the mega-settlement of Ma’aleh Adumin, thus finally making the creation of a contiguous Palestinian State impossible.
26 November 2012
Patrick B. Pexton: A photograph may be worth a thousand words, but even at its most revealing it never tells an entire story. It is the capture of a single moment, a split-second version of the truth. But if it is an effective photograph, it moves the viewer toward a larger truth.
26 November 2012
Sara Roy: Between February 2009 - just after the Operation Cast Lead onslaught - and August 2012, Israeli attacks in Gaza, averaged six per week. They came by aircraft, helicopter gunships, drones, and tanks throughout Gaza; the confiscation of, or damage to, fishing boats and the detention and arrest of fishermen; attacks on industrial, farm, and food production facilities; and military ground incursions.
26 November 2012
A cease fire announced between Israel and Hamas, can it last?
26 November 2012
After eight days of violence along Israel's border with Gaza and nearly 150 deaths, a cease-fire was declared Wednesday between Israel and Hamas. The truce is holding so far but many are wondering how long it could last.
26 November 2012
History professor Rashid Khalidi discusses the future of the Palestinian territories and how the latest conflict may shift political power.
26 November 2012
Fmr. PLO Legal Adviser Diana Buttu says it's time for different Palestinian factions to find reconciliation and peace.
26 November 2012
Palestinians and Israelis in the New York area are keeping a close eye on the unfolding events in the Middle East.
26 November 2012
As of 21 November 2012 1400 HRS, published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, occupied Palestinian territory
26 November 2012
Egyptian, Israeli and Palestinian officials representing the Hamas-run government in Gaza will meet next Monday in Cairo to discuss the aftermath of the ceasefire agreement.
26 November 2012
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that upgrading the Palestinian status in the UN to a non-member state is the last chance for making peace.
26 November 2012
Adam Shatz: The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, but will not lift the blockade. It requires Israel to end its assault on the Strip, and Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets at southern Israel, but it leaves Gaza as miserable as ever.
21 November 2012
As efforts to secure a ceasefire continue, Democracy Now! hosts a debate on the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip with two guests: James Colbert, policy director for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs; and Yousef Munayyer, Executive Director of The Jerusalem Fund and its educational program, The Palestine Center.
21 November 2012
Israel and Hamas agreed Wednesday to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire accord to end a week of violence in and around the Gaza Strip following days of marathon talks. Here is the text of the ceasefire agreement which is set to take effect at 1900 GMT.
21 November 2012
Israel and Hamas agree to ceasefire after eight days of attacks in which 162 Palestinians and five Israelis are killed.
21 November 2012
Israeli missiles have destroyed a key compound of the Hamas government in Gaza, as international mediators continue to try to broker a ceasefire. The attack was one of 100 overnight by the Israeli military. Gaza officials said three Palestinians were killed.
21 November 2012
Amy Davidson: “What happened to your face, sweetheart?” a man said at a morgue in Gaza on Monday. He was a member of the Dalu family—one of those who were left—and, according to Reuters, had just been asked to identify his wife; he did, and cried.
21 November 2012
Ben Hartman: Rushdi Tamimi, 31 dies in Ramallah after he was shot by an IDF soldier during clashes in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.
21 November 2012
Phoebe Greenwood: As Gaza's leaders edge towards a ceasefire with Israel its ambulances continue to deliver the dead.
21 November 2012
Nadia Hijab: Whenever Middle East tensions rise, observers wonder whether the Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt will weather the storm. It is no different this time.
21 November 2012
Alistair Lyon: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has cut a lonely figure while his Islamist Hamas rivals in the Gaza Strip have battled Israel, gaining kudos in the West Bank and de facto Arab recognition.
21 November 2012
Khaled Elgindy: Reports of a possible cease-fire in Gaza brokered by Egypt emerged Tuesday, but without a more farsighted approach that addresses the dysfunctional dynamic within Palestinian politics, any truce is unlikely to be any more durable than previous ones.
19 November 2012
Conner Simpson:The fighting between Israel and Hamas continued Sunday night with rocket attacks on both sides, while in the background the efforts to work out a ceasefire have begun to ramp up.
19 November 2012
Kate Moody & Oliver Farry:At least 11 civilians were killed by an Israeli air strike on Gaza Sunday in the single deadliest incident in Israel’s five-day-old military offensive against Gaza militants, who themselves continued their barrage of rocket fire at Israel.
19 November 2012
More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government websites since Israel began its air raids on the Gaza Strip almost a week ago.
19 November 2012
Sinai militants detonated an explosive device on the border with Israeli city Eilat on Monday, Egyptian security sources said.
19 November 2012
Annie Robbins: As Israel continues to pound Gaza for the 5th day Egyptian authorities have allowed a five bus convoy of 400 activists to enter Gaza thru the Rafah border in solidarity with Gazans under siege. This represents a radical departure from the policies of the Mubarak regime during Israel's '08-'09 war on Gaza.
19 November 2012
Location metadata stored on Twitter and other social media are feared by Israeli officials to be assisting Hamas' efforts and counter-attacks.
19 November 2012
Jillian C. York: Looming over the shadow of a threat to disconnect the internet in Gaza, Israel is waging an outright propaganda war.
19 November 2012
Anshel Pfeffer: Cyber attacks, battling social media, and bogus text messages are all contemporary weapons in Operation Pillar of Defense.
19 November 2012
As this new aggression on the people of Gaza shows, Israel will continue its belligerence and state terrorism unless it is made to pay a heavy price for its crimes against the Palestinian, Lebanese and other Arab peoples.
19 November 2012
Johnathon Cook: A short interview broadcast by CNN late last week featuring two participants – a Palestinian in Gaza and an Israeli within range of the rocket attacks – did not follow the usual script.
19 November 2012
Karl Vick:On the day they buried Ahmed Jabari, the Hamas commander blown apart in what Israel calls a “targeted killing,” a man named Jihad Misharawi cradled the corpse of his 11-month-old son, killed when an apparently errant Israeli shell pierced the roof of their Gaza home.
19 November 2012
Leila Farsakh: Palestinian demonstrators at home and initiatives by Palestinians worldwide have imposed a different discourse on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Palestinian Authority (PA), as revealed by the evolution of PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ speeches to the United Nations General Assembly between 2011 and 2012.
19 November 2012
Omar Baddar: As Israel continues to pound Gaza, the Palestinian death toll of the latest round of violence has crossed the 100 mark.
16 November 2012
Haroon Siddique and Paul Owen: Hamas's military wing said it had fired a long-range rocket at Jerusalem, about 70 km (40) miles from Gaza, Reuters reports. There were no immediate reports of any impact.
16 November 2012
Israel renewed airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon, with reports that a Hamas fighter and Palestinian woman were the latest casualties in the third day of bombardments.
16 November 2012
Will Israeli and Palestinian leaders let a renewal of violence in Gaza get out of control and make diplomacy even harder to revive?
16 November 2012
Belen Fernandez: The assault on Gaza does not constitute, as Israel claims, "retaliation" for an anti-tank missile fired by Palestinians.
16 November 2012
Max Fisher: The front page photo on Thursday’s Washington Post tells, in a single frame, a very personal story from Wednesday’s Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
16 November 2012
Rami Almeghari: Thirteen-year-old Muhammad Abu Daqqa vividly recalls the moment his friend and cousin Ahmad Abu Daqqa was killed outside his southeast Gaza home while they were playing football last Thursday afternoon.
16 November 2012
Earlier today it was reported that Israel assassinated the leader of Hamas’ military wing, Ahmed Jabari, breaking a tentative truce with Palestinian fighters that had been in place since Monday. The truce followed an escalation in violence that began last Thursday in which six Palestinian civilians were killed, including three children, and more than fifty others injured.
16 November 2012
John Mearsheimer: In response to a recent upsurge in tit for tat strikes between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, Israel decided to ratchet up the violence even further by assassinating Hamas’s military chief, Ahmad Jabari. Hamas, which had been playing a minor role in these exchanges and even appears to have been interested in working out a long-term ceasefire, predictably responded by launching hundreds of rockets into Israel, a few even landing near Tel Aviv.
16 November 2012
George Bisharat: Targeted killings may be lawful in extremely limited circumstances in which the targeted individual is actively engaged in combat in a theater of war or is not in a theater of war but directly involved in an imminent attack and cannot be apprehended -- and the means of carrying out the killing must be proportional to the anticipated harm, and must not inflict undue injuries and deaths on innocent civilians.
16 November 2012
Michael Koplow: Ever since the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Pillar of Cloud on Wednesday with the killing of Hamas military chief Ahmed al-Jabari, the official IDF Twitter feed has been working overtime to publicize Israeli military exploits.
16 November 2012
Arwa Mahdawi: Israel's use of Twitter as a PR tool in the attacks on Gaza draws on a long history of branding that Palestinians have yet to match.
16 November 2012
Mehdi Hasan: As Palestinian militants in Gaza fire rockets into Israel and the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) bombard the Strip 'in retaliation', here are 10 things you should probably know about Gaza.
6 November 2012
The leader of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has criticised the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas for comments he made to Israeli media, saying that they contradict long-held Palestinian territorial demands.
6 November 2012
Amid bitter clashes between the army and the rebels in Damascus, more than 30 were killed in a 24-hour period in a Palestinian refugee camp
6 November 2012
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 20-year-old Palestinian man who approached a fence near Gaza's border with Israel, medics said on Monday.
6 November 2012
James M. Wall: Less than a month after his 2009 inauguration, President Barack Obama made a move that quietly told the Israel Lobby there was a new sheriff in town. He selected an experienced diplomat, Chas Freeman, to serve as the new administration’s Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC).
6 November 2012
Saeb Erekat: Palestine has not been part of any major discussion during the presidential election debates. That is surprising and dismaying, given the United States' role as a crucial player in the region and its unconditional financial and political support of Israel. Yet, the candidates appear to have actively avoided the issue.
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6 November 2012
Emily Hauser: On the morning of October 23, the world of people who care and/or write about Israel-Palestine exploded with controversy: "Most Israelis support an apartheid regime in Israel" trumpeted a headline in Haaretz, atop an article by renown - or reviled, depending on the reader - Israeli journalist Gideon Levy.
6 November 2012
Bringing together a great crew of creative minds and shot throughout Brooklyn, Normalize This! tackles the multitude of ways Israel attempts to normalize its policies and whitewash its crimes against Palestinians.
6 November 2012
Jamal Zahalka: Ahead of the Israeli elections next January, a merger between the parties of the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has been announced. They are to contest the elections on a joint list, intending to become the largest bloc in the Knesset.
6 November 2012
Ori Lewis & Jeffrey Heller: Israel has announced plans to press ahead with construction of 1,213 homes on annexed West Bank land, defying international opposition to its settlement policies.
6 November 2012
Ece Toksabay: Hundreds of protesters chanting "Murderer Israel!" gathered outside an Istanbul court on Tuesday at the start of a trial of a group of former Israeli military commanders charged over the 2010 killing of nine Turks aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship.
6 November 2012
Jodi Rudoren: The question seemed simple enough: Would President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority like to go to Safed, the city in northern Israel where he was born in 1935?
31 October 2012
Nadia Hijab: As a Palestinian-American, I awaited the presidential debate on foreign policy with anticipation, given the massive U.S. military footprint in the region of my birth.
31 October 2012
Israeli settlers have set up two new unauthorized outposts in the occupied West Bank, the anti-settlement Peace Now group said on Wednesday.
31 October 2012
Palestinian fighter killed and another wounded after Gaza security sources report Israeli tanks entering Khan Yunis.
31 October 2012
Palestinian authorities confirmed the November timetable and said a separate Swiss investigative team would arrive in the West Bank city of Ramallah at the same time. No exact date was disclosed.
31 October 2012
Claire Davenport: Twenty two religious groups and charities have called on the European Union to ban products made by Israeli settlers in the occupied territories, saying a boycott would undercut their economic reason for staying there.
31 October 2012
Noah Browning and Ali Sawafta: Palestinians have launched a diplomatic blitz aimed at garnering a strong majority for a vote granting them non-member statehood at the United Nations slated for next month, officials said Tuesday.
31 October 2012
Joel Greenberg: When the emir of Qatar paid the first visit by a head of state to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip last week, there were two different reactions from the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
31 October 2012
Fierce clashes broke out before dawn Tuesday in a major Palestinian refugee camp south of Syria's capital, pitting rebels against troops backed by pro-regime Palestinian fighters, activists and a watchdog said.
31 October 2012
With only one reported violation of media freedoms in the first half of September, the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) was optimistic about this month's report.
31 October 2012
Megan Kelly: Tomorrow’s Youth Organization based in Nablus, Palestine, helps promising new women's businesses survive.
31 October 2012
Mark LeVine: Security has been a "primary justification" for Zionist policies of land expropriation and removal of Palestinians.
31 October 2012
Noam Sheizaf: If we exclude Gaza, one in every 4.5 people living under Israeli rule doesn’t have the right to vote in the coming elections; that one person is (almost) always Palestinian. If Gaza is included, it’s one in three who is not represented.
22 October 2012
Israeli airstrikes on the northern Gaza Strip killed at least two Palestinians on Monday morning, Gaza officials said.
22 October 2012
Pro-Palestinian activists from a Gaza-bound boat intercepted by the Israeli navy have accused troops of tasering them when they took over their vessel the Estelle their lawyer told AFP on Sunday.
22 October 2012
The Gaza Strip is in its sixth year of siege, in the twenty-first year of closure and the forty-sixth year of occupation. The Coastal Aquifer, shared with Israel is its only accessible source of water, polluted at ninety to ninety-five percent.
22 October 2012
Fatah won two-fifths of the seats contested on Saturday. But lists led by party rebels gained control of four of the 11 major towns and cities. In a fifth, independents and leftists won.
22 October 2012
Vivian Sansour and Jacob Wheeler: Following in the footsteps of their ancestors and obeying the wisdom of nature, Palestinian olive farmers and their families wait for the first rainfall to signal the new harvest season.
22 October 2012
Micheal Madormo: While students across America and around the world took the SAT exam on October 6th, my Palestinian students were denied the chance to do the same. Why? Israeli customs held the exams and failed to release them in time for my students to take the exam -- a test necessary to apply to college in the United States.
22 October 2012
On Monday 22nd October, United States confirmed that the American law states on Cutting financial aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and close the Palestinian Liberation Office (PLO) in Washington if the PA head to the General Assembly to obtain a non-member state in the United Nations or in any of its organizations.
22 October 2012
James Zogby: Two weeks ago, fifteen religious leaders representing major Protestant denominations dared to challenge one of Washington's most powerful taboos. They wrote a letter urging Congress to investigate whether unconditional U.S. military assistance to Israel is contributing to violations of Palestinian human rights.
22 October 2012
Harriet Sherwood: At the eastern tip of the Israeli settlement of Ariel, cranes and earth-movers are at work on the college campus, which stretches across a hill overlooking the villages and valleys of the West Bank.
22 October 2012
J.K.:Times are grim for the 96,000 or so Syrians who have fled to Lebanon. But they are even grimmer for the 7,500-odd Palestinians who have been based in Syria and have become second-time refugees by fleeing to Lebanon too.
15 October 2012
Lauren E. Bohn: Ashour had planned to study English literature this fall at a university in the West Bank through a U.S.-sponsored program, but was recently informed the scholarship was no longer available for Gaza students. Under Israeli pressure, U.S. officials have quietly canceled a two-year-old scholarship program for students in the Gaza Strip, undercutting a program that American diplomats say has been key in providing needed educational opportunities for students in the Palestinian...
15 October 2012
As the West Bank olive harvest season begins, two Israeli rights groups released reports this week criticizing Israeli authorities for failing to protect Palestinians from settler violence, or investigate attacks.
15 October 2012
Ruth Pollard: In a deadly cycle of targeted assassinations and retaliatory rocket fire, five Palestinians were killed and more were injured in Gaza over the weekend, while militants fired dozens of rockets into southern Israeli towns forcing terrified residents to flee to bomb shelters.
15 October 2012
Jodi Rudoren: The faces of five men in business suits and one woman in a white head scarf beam under the slogan “Modern Hebron” on campaign banners along the streets of this famously conservative city ahead of local elections scheduled for Saturday.
15 October 2012
Jihan Abdalla: "Many people still believe the post of mayor is exclusively for men," says Vera Baboun, aiming to become the first female mayor of the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, and in the process shake up a society where men still make the laws and do the deals.
15 October 2012
Netanyahu said he was forced to call early elections last week after he was unable to pass a budget for the coming year. Elections were originally scheduled for October 2013.
15 October 2012
Amira Hass: PLO executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi says growing pro-Palestinian public opinion will soon force European governments to fend off 'mean' U.S. pressure and back the Palestinians' UN statehood bid.
15 October 2012
Mohammed Daraghmeh: For Palestinians, the Israeli military coordination office on the outskirts of Jerusalem is a symbol of Israel's decades-long control over their lives. Now it has also become an unlikely source of hope for employment.
15 October 2012
Daniel R. DePetris: There are many reasons why serious, substantive peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians have been stalled for four years but one of the most difficult stumbling blocks between the two sides has been the settlements issue.
15 October 2012
Samir al-Barq, a Palestinian jailed without charge in Israel, said he was resuming his hunger strike after a deal to release him to Egypt failed to come through, his lawyer told Ma'an on Monday.
15 October 2012
Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinian Journalists Syndicate in Gaza calls for the release of reporters arrested by PA security forces in West Bank.
8 October 2012
Isabel Kershner: Palestinian militants from Gaza fired a barrage of rockets and mortar shells into Israeli territory on Monday, causing no casualties but some property damage, after an Israeli airstrike wounded at least 10 Palestinians in southern Gaza on Sunday.
8 October 2012
Israeli jets scrambled to intercept a drone that crossed into Israeli airspace on Saturday from the Mediterranean Sea, shooting it down over the southern part of the country, a military spokeswoman said.
8 October 2012
Moriel Rothman: In Israel, a settler’s pre-1948 property claim provides legal grounds for the takeover of private Palestinian land. The property deeds of scores of Palestinians are disregarded, because there is one set of laws for Jews and another for Palestinians. Separate and unequal.
8 October 2012
New York Session of the RToP will take place at the Great Hall at Cooper Union located at 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10003. The Tribunal will gather October 6-7 2012.
8 October 2012
Jamal Kanj: Last week was the ninth anniversary of Edward Said's death. He died in New York following 12-year battle with lymphocytic leukaemia. He was born in Jerusalem 12 years prior to joining hundreds of thousands of his compatriots in a force, lifelong journey into exile or refugee camps. He was a towering figure in American academia and distinguished cultural critic best known for his 1978 book Orientalism.
8 October 2012
The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt will be open 24 hours a day from Oct. 14 to cater for Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage, a Hamas official said Saturday.
8 October 2012
Saed Bannoura: Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported Saturday that dozens of Palestinian villagers, picking their olive trees west of Hebron, were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation after being attacked by Israeli soldiers.
8 October 2012
Patrick O. Strickland: Even among many “pro-Palestinian” figures, particularly proponents of the moribund two-state solution, there is a curious consensus that within the Green Line, Israel is a genuinely democratic state that ensures equality among all of its citizens. The state’s failure to secure justice for the families of the October 2000 victims is one of many examples that illustrate how this notion is both unfounded and inaccurate.
8 October 2012
Jonathan Cook: In the shadow of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's theatrics at the United Nations last week, armed with his cartoon Iranian bomb, Israeli officials launched a quieter, but equally combative, initiative to extinguish whatever hopes have survived of reviving the peace process.
8 October 2012
Oraib Rantawi and Oroub el-Abed: The Arab uprisings have created a unique opportunity for Palestinian-origin Jordanians to address head-on the hitherto taboo topic of the increasingly dire situation faced by the millions-strong community in Jordan. Since March 2011, several new activist groups (Herakat), including some Palestinian origin-Jordanians who were or still are in positions of power, have been calling for equal rights for all Jordanian citizens and insisting that Palestinian origin...
8 October 2012
Amira Hass: In a new series, Haaretz explores the inequitable distribution of drinking water in the West Bank, where supply for the Palestinian falls far short of that of their settler neighbors as well as the standard set out by the WHO.
8 October 2012
An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip injured 11 people on Sunday, a Gaza medical official said.
1 October 2012
Linda Sarsour: A Muslim New Yorker says the ads by an anti-Islam group are absolutely legal–and absolutely immoral.
1 October 2012
Ben White: Dubbed 'leftist' by hawks in Israel, the High Court of Justice actually reinforces colonial policies, writes author.
1 October 2012
A Palestinian press freedom group has warned of restrictions and abuse of journalists in the Gaza Strip during rare demonstrations critical of the ruling Hamas government.
1 October 2012
Mahmoud Sarsak said if he shares the same box on Oct. 7 with Gilad Shalit this will suggest an act of “normalization” with Israel.
1 October 2012
PCHR said in a press release that on Friday, 28 September 2012, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian fisherman and wounded his brother, while they and a group of other fishermen were located a few meters from the shore in the northern Gaza Strip, pulling out their fishing nets.
1 October 2012
The University of California Student Association, which represents hundreds of thousands of students at all ten UC campuses, passed a resolution today condemning recent attempts to censure boycott and divestment efforts by Palestinian human rights activists on campus, and demanding that the UC stop profiting from Israel’s human rights violations.
1 October 2012
Jonathan Marcus: It is perhaps one of the paradoxes of the past 18 months in the Middle East that as people protested and dictators toppled, so the region's longest-lasting conflict - that between Israel and the Palestinians - has largely disappeared from the headlines.
1 October 2012
Amer Zahr: The Arabs are backward and Muslims want to destroy the world. And then there was that diagram. Comedian Amer Zahr breaks down Netanyahu’s UN speech.
1 October 2012
Amena Saleem: There is international law, and there is the world as Israel and the BBC see it. And if Israel claims the whole of Jerusalem as its territory, contrary to international law, then it is not for the BBC to dispute this — or so its coverage would have us believe.
1 October 2012
Egypt’s new Islamist leaders have so far failed to embrace their Gazan brothers.
24 September 2012
Laila El-Haddad: When it comes to understanding the complicated realities of the Gaza Strip, the Rafah Crossing ranks among the greatest sources of confusion: Many people know it is the main gateway in and out of the blockaded Palestinian territory, and that it is frequently closed. But other details are fuzzy.
24 September 2012
The Palestinian finance minister warned Sunday that the two-state solution is in jeopardy if the Palestinian Authority doesn't get a major infusion of cash to alleviate its severe fiscal crisis.
24 September 2012
A highly informative interview with Nadia Hijab, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies as well as Co-Founder and Director of Al-Shabaka: the Palestinian Policy Network.
24 September 2012
Saed Bannoura:The settlers initially hurled stones and empty bottles at the home of Nidal Al-Oweiwy, and climbed on its rooftop before invading the home through it roof door, the Arabs48 news website reported.
24 September 2012
Lourdes Garcia-Navarro: Ihab Abu Nada's family lives down a series of dark narrow alleyways in Gaza City. The house has two bedrooms for the seven people living there — the kitchen and the bathroom are in the same space, and the roof is made of tin and frequently leaks.
24 September 2012
Ghada Karmi: It is one year this week since the Palestinians applied for UN membership. President Mahmoud Abbas's impassioned plea to the UN's General Assembly for support of the We Palestinian case on 23 September 2011 won him much praise, even from his detractors.
24 September 2012
Three groups of Israelis were given a guarded tour of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, a religious foundation said Sunday.The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Heritage and Waqf (Islamic endowment) said 130 Israelis toured the holy compound accompanied by rabbis and soldiers, and performed religious rituals.
24 September 2012
Israel has held discussions with the Palestinian Authority (PA) over plans to develop a gas field off the coast of the blockaded Gaza Strip, Israel’s foreign ministry said in a report. Prepared for a gathering of donors to the PA in New York, the report released on Sunday said initial negotiations have begun on the controversial issue.
24 September 2012
Rafeef Ziadah: On 18 September 2012, the European Parliament Committee on International Trade (INTA) passed the Protocol on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) by a slim margin.
24 September 2012
Israel’s defense minister is calling for a unilateral pullout from most of the West Bank if peace efforts with the Palestinians remain stalled. Ehud Barak calls for uprooting dozens of settlements but says Israel would keep major settlement blocs, mostly near the frontiers of Israel proper, and maintain a military presence in an area along the border with Jordan.
17 September 2012
Seth Anziska: ON the night of Sept. 16, 1982, the Israeli military allowed a right-wing Lebanese militia to enter two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. In the ensuing three-day rampage, the militia, linked to the Maronite Christian Phalange Party, raped, killed and dismembered at least 800 civilians, while Israeli flares illuminated the camps’ narrow and darkened alleyways. Nearly all of the dead were women, children and elderly men.
17 September 2012
Robert Fisk: The memories remain, of course. The man who lost his family in an earlier massacre, only to watch the young men of Chatila lined up after the new killings and marched off to death. But – like the muck piled on the garbage tip amid the concrete hovels – the stench of injustice still pervades the camps where 1,700 Palestinians were butchered 30 years ago next week.
17 September 2012
Hassan Kheite: On the 30th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in which hundreds of defenseless Palestinian refugees were slaughtered by Lebanese right-wing militias under the cover of the Israeli military, Al-Akhbar publishes an account of the events by a Palestinian survivor who was a young boy when he witnessed the killings.
17 September 2012
Overlooking the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, Beirut’s 'Gaza Hospital' witnessed the Lebanese civil war and the Israeli invasion first hand. Most notably the hospital and its staff dealt with the bloody impact of the 72-hour massacre that took place there in 1982.
17 September 2012
Today marks the 30 year anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, in which hundreds of defenseless Palestinian refugees were slaughtered by Lebanese right-wing militias under the cover of the Israeli military. Below are profiles of the main culprits responsible for the killings.
17 September 2012
Sonja Karkar:
It happened thirty years ago – 16 September 1982. A massacre so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it. The photos are gruesome reminders – charred, decapitated, indecently violated corpses, the smell of rotting flesh, still as foul to those who remember it as when they were recoiling from it all those years ago.
17 September 2012
Amira Howeidy: The images only resurface in our collective memory when the almost unbelievable footage is aired on TV screens. Sun-bloated corpses -- some mutilated, others too dark or disfigured to know that they were human -- are covered with flies.
17 September 2012
September 2012 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the massacres that Lebanese Phalangist militia units-- working with full, round-the-clock operational support of the Israeli military-- committed against unarmed Palestinians in the two refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, in West Beirut. The killing started on Thursday, September 16 and continued for around 42 hours.
17 September 2012
Martin Armstrong: At the start of the massacre, residents had no idea what was happening. “When flares were fired in the sky we just thought it was some form of military operation. We weren’t thinking massacre,” Aziza Khalidi recalls.
17 September 2012
Ellen Siegel: On the 30th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, a Jewish American nurse who provided humanitarian aid in a Beirut hospital recalls her first encounter with IDF soldiers. Today, she asks them to take a few moments during the Jewish New Year to remember.
10 September 2012
Gaza Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Thursday that the protest movement focused on his economic policies could not be characterized as the arrival of the "Palestinian Spring".
10 September 2012
Isabel Kershner: Gaza may not be “a livable place” by 2020 unless intensive efforts are made to improve infrastructure and services in fields like energy, health, water and sanitation, a United Nations report concluded this week.
10 September 2012
Ali Sawafta:The cash-strapped Palestinian Authority said on Sunday it has asked Israel to consider overhauling a key economic agreement that has determined its customs and tax rates for the past 18 years, in the wake of street protests against high prices.
10 September 2012
President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that the "Palestinian Spring" had begun, as Palestinians took to the streets across the West Bank in protest over rising prices.
10 September 2012
The United Nations UNCTAD agency issued a gloomy outlook for the Palestinian economy on Wednesday, arguing that tougher Israeli policies and settlement expansion were pushing the occupied territories and Gaza deeper into poverty.
10 September 2012
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated Saturday that he will be heading to the United Nations, on September 27, for deliberations on the Palestinian request for full Palestinian membership at the General Assembly”, the Arabs48 news website reported.
10 September 2012
The Yasser Arafat Foundation said Sunday there was "no need" for more proof the Palestinian leader was poisoned in what appeared to be a stance against French plans to exhume his body.
10 September 2012
George S. Hishmeh: It may have been coincidental that The Washington Post came out with a forceful column very critical of US silence about Israel’s nuclear arsenal as it assists the Tel Aviv government in its conflict with Iran over its alleged potential for nuclear weapons.
10 September 2012
Israel will reject a Palestinian request to amend the Paris Protocol that regulates economic ties between the two sides, Israel's deputy foreign minister said.
10 September 2012
Lena Odgaard: Catching up with friends, showing off new clothes and getting new books — for most kids, the first day of school is exciting. But for Palestinian children who live in or go to school in the Old City of Hebron, the day is nothing to look forward to.
4 September 2012
Victor Kattan: A Freedom of Information request with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) by Al-Shabaka has led to the release of new documents on Gaza’s gas fields, and surprising new information about the possibility of oil fields in the West Bank.
4 September 2012
Allyn Fisher-Ilan: Vandals set fire to the doors of a Christian monastery near Jerusalem on Tuesday and daubed pro-settler graffiti on its walls in a possible retaliation for the eviction of families from an unauthorized outpost.
4 September 2012
Hussein Abu Hussein: On Tuesday, Judge Oded Gershon of the Haifa District Court dismissed the civil lawsuit I brought on behalf of Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for the unlawful killing of their daughter, an American peace activist and human rights defender who legally entered Gaza to live with Palestinian families in Rafah whose homes were threatened by demolition.
4 September 2012
Ben White: This week, the Israeli city of Be'er Sheva (Beer el-Sabe) will hold a wine and beer festival in the courtyard of the city's former Great Mosque. The municipality's plans have provoked anger from the country's Palestinian citizens, including a legal challenge by minority rights group Adalah, as well as a protest tent and condemnation by community leaders and politicians.
4 September 2012
Nathan Jeffay: As Jamal Julani recovered in a hospital after being beaten unconscious in an August 17 attack that monopolized Israeli headlines for days, another Palestinian man was beaten unconscious. But this second attack flew under the radar of most Israelis.
4 September 2012
Joe Catron: A new report by Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq accuses Israel of “encouraging and facilitating the exploitation of Palestinian natural resources and actively assisting their pillaging by private actors” in the Dead Sea region of the occupied West Bank.
4 September 2012
Dozens of children returned to school on Sunday, taking part in an annual ritual that has taken on special meaning in this Bedouin tent camp.
4 September 2012
Stephen Zunes: The California State Assembly has just passed a bipartisan resolution (HR 35) by voice vote which constitutes a serious attack on academic freedom and the rights of students and faculty to raise awareness about human rights abuses by U.S.-backed governments.
4 September 2012
Isabel Kershner: The police officers went door to door on Sunday morning in this hilltop settlement outpost east of the West Bank city of Ramallah, handing out final eviction notices and waiting patiently for residents to come out.
29 August 2012
Join IMEU as we talk to Cindy and Craig Corrie about Tuesday's decision by an Israeli court to dismiss their civil suit against the government of Israel over the death of their daughter Rachel, who was killed by an Israeli miitary bulldozer while trying to prevent the destruction of Palestinian homes in Gaza in 2003.
29 August 2012
Zak Golombeck: Nearly nine and a half years after the death in Rafah, Gaza, of Rachel Corrie, an American International Solidarity Movement volunteer, a Haifa district court has ruled that the State of Israel, vicariously liable for the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), did not breach their duty of care owed to Rachel and did not violate her 'right to life'.
29 August 2012
Jeff Halper: The verdict on the 2003 killing of Rachel Corrie absolved Israel of any wrongdoing, essentially blaming the victim for her death. The trial revealed Israel’s approach to the most fundamental principles of international law, and especially to the duty to protect non-combatants.
29 August 2012
Olga Khazan: The ruling by an Israeli court that the 2003 death of Rachel Corrie was an accident drew immediate scorn from several pro-Palestinian groups and writers, who view the decision as evidence that the Israeli government ignores the human rights of Palestinians and their supporters.
29 August 2012
Robert Mackey: As my colleagues Jodi Rudoren and Danielle Ziri report, an Israeli judge ruled on Tuesday that the state bore no responsibility for the death of Rachel Corrie, an American activist who was crushed to death by a military bulldozer in 2003 as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian home in Gaza.
29 August 2012
Karl Vick: Coming almost a decade after her death beneath the tracks of an armored Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip, the verdict in the Rachel Corrie case was the furthest thing from a surprise. By the time Israeli judge Oded Gershon gathered his robes about him and took his seat in an airy Haifa courtroom Tuesday morning, the trajectory of the proceedings had emerged across 15 court sessions stretched over 2 and a half years.
29 August 2012
Carolyn Lang: Amnesty International condemns an Israeli court’s verdict that the government of Israel bears no responsibility in the death of Rachel Corrie, saying the verdict continues the pattern of impunity for Israeli military violations against civilians and human rights defenders in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
29 August 2012
Rachel Corrie, an American who was killed while trying to stop an Israeli army bulldozer demolish a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip in 2003, was a committed peace activist.
29 August 2012
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours: The Haifa District court ruled earlier today that the Israeli military is not responsible for killing American activist Rachel Corrie , and that Corrie was to blame for her own death.
29 August 2012
Chris McGreal: Corrie's parents have not received justice, but their quest reveals the lie of the IDF's claim to be the world's 'most moral army.'
29 August 2012
Jodi Rudoren: An Israeli judge ruled on Tuesday that the state bore no responsibility for the death of Rachel Corrie, the young American woman who was run over by a military bulldozer in 2003 as she protested the demolition of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip.
29 August 2012
Adrian Blomfield: The parents of Corrie fought back tears as a judge fully absolved the Israeli army for the death of their daughter as she tried to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian house in Gaza in 2003.
27 August 2012
Karin Brulliard and Samuel Sockol: The vicious nighttime beating of an Arab teenager by a mob of Jewish youths in a downtown square here last week has prompted arrests, condemnation and soul-searching about the depths of ethnic hatred in Israeli society.
27 August 2012
Two vicious attacks on Palestinians, presumed to be the work of Jews, have some Israelis worried that their society is increasingly tolerant of hate crimes.
27 August 2012
Robert Mackey: As my colleague Isabel Kershner reports, several Israeli teenagers who appeared in court on Monday following their arrest for beating a young Palestinian unconscious expressed little remorse for the attack after a hearing.
27 August 2012
Isabel Kershner: Seven Israeli teenagers were in custody on Monday, accused of what a police official and several witnesses described as an attempted lynching of several Palestinian youths, laying bare the undercurrent of tension in this ethnically mixed but politically divided city.
27 August 2012
Harriet Sherwood: Booklet of testimonies of former Israeli soldiers describes beatings, intimidation and humiliation of children.
27 August 2012
Over 100 international pro-Palestinian activists from the US and Europe were prevented entering the West Bank via the King Hussein/Allenby Bridge border crossing from Jordan on Sunday, the organisers of the 'Welcome to Palestine' campaign said.
27 August 2012
Israeli police say they have arrested three Jewish youths from a West Bank settlement as suspects in firebomb attack that wounded six Palestinians in a taxi.
27 August 2012
Four stalls in a trash-filled, abandoned outdoor market have turned into hotly contested real estate in the center of biblical Hebron where several hundred ultranationalist Jewish settlers are wrestling with Palestinian residents for control, house by house and storefront by storefront.
27 August 2012
Mairav Zonszein: Although two recent acts of violence of Palestinians were publicly condemned by government leaders as a 'terror attack' and 'hate crime,' respectively, such acts are not an aberration.
27 August 2012
Mya Guarnieri: Jewish migrants flock to the occupied West Bank as more Palestinians and Bedouin are evicted from their homes.
27 August 2012
A truckload of eggs produced in the West Bank was exported to Jordan via King Hussein Bridge on Sunday, turning a new page in commercial relations between Jordan and Palestine.
27 August 2012
Rashid Khalidi: Israelis know it. Palestinians know it. The whole world knows it. The absence of any American sense of fair play where Palestinian-Israeli issues are concerned is no secret.
27 August 2012
Simon Randles and Amjad Alqasis: Seam zones are sections of Palestinian land within the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) which fall between the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall and the 1949 Armistice Line (The Green Line) and are therefore severed from the OPT. These swaths of land have been designated by Israel as closed military areas.
20 August 2012
Five Palestinians were seriously injured on Thursday after Israeli settlers threw Molotov cocktails at their car south of Bethlehem, medics said.
20 August 2012
Melanie Lidman: Fifteen year-old testifies in remand hearing, says he beat the seventeen year-old for "insulting his mom." Police: Group meant to kill.
20 August 2012
Ali Abunimah: Hiring Joshua Trevino, who endorsed the killing of Gaza flotilla members, is a worrying step for journalism.
20 August 2012
Amira Hass: How Israel uses military orders to take over Palestinian land.
20 August 2012
Daniel Byman and Natan Sachs: The West Bank’s Other Violent Extremists. Late this past June, a group of Israeli settlers in the West Bank defaced and burned a mosque in the small West Bank village of Jabaa.
20 August 2012
The U.S. State Department has included violence by "extremist Israeli settlers" in its 2011 annual report on terrorism around the world.
20 August 2012
Due to a temporary relaxation in Israeli policy, many Palestinians traveled to Jerusalem through checkpoints during Ramadan this year. But now that Ramadan is over, it’s back to business as usual.
20 August 2012
Exporting local products to global markets is one of the pillars of any country’s economy, but farmers in the Palestinian territories deal with the unique problem of being part of an economy not formally recognized as a state.
20 August 2012
Tony Burman: The wave of celebrations throughout the Muslim world to mark the end of Ramadan may be particularly muted among Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Instead of feelings of blessings and joy, coming after a month of fasting, there seems to be a growing mood among many Palestinians of despair and squandered opportunity. Is the dream of an independent Palestine over?
20 August 2012
Ramzi El Houry: Desalination can have significant repercussions on the environment, and much of those are not fully understood yet.
20 August 2012
Canada’s largest Protestant church has approved a controversial boycott of products made or linked to Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian territory.
13 August 2012
Zahi Khouri: I am a proud American. I am a hardworking businessman and job creator. I am a faithful Christian. And I am Palestinian.
13 August 2012
Amira Hass: Group, who also organized April's 'fly-in', plans to spend several days in Bethlehem after entering through Jordan.
13 August 2012
Israeli prosecutors have dropped a manslaughter charge against a former soldier in connection with the deaths of a Palestinian woman and her daughter during the offensive on Gaza in 2009.
13 August 2012
An Israeli electricity company has threatened to cut off supplies to the West Bank over unpaid debts, a Palestinian electricity company official said Monday.
13 August 2012
Fareed Zakaria: I think the central disappointment for the much of the world, and not just in the Arab world, has been the Arab-Israeli issue, and I think Obama has mishandled that. He appointed a high level negotiator in George Mitchell, which was fine, as was the shuttling back and forth of U.S. officials to build confidence. But then Obama decided that he was going to get personally involved, and he put a lot of his personal prestige on the line.
13 August 2012
David Weiss: One of the most inspiring people I met was Basha'er Othman, a 15-year-old girl from Illar, a small town of just over 6,000 people. Basha'er is the "shadow" mayor of her town and one day, she told me, she hopes to be the president of a future state of Palestine. I have no doubt that her drive and poise will take her a long way. But for now, she is learning the ropes by being the democratically elected "shadow" mayor and working with the local council members of her town.
13 August 2012
Frank Jacobs: My better half: “Are you sure about this? They’ll kill you.” Me: “Sure I’m sure. You can hardly expect me to write a series called Borderlines, about the strange lines that people draw to distinguish ‘us’ from ‘them,’ and then finish it without discussing the border between Israel and Palestine.”
13 August 2012
Richard Forer: In the past the label self-hating Jew was associated with Jews who were ashamed of or who hid their heritage. But as criticism of Israeli policy toward Palestinians has intensified, self-hating Jew, like anti-Semite, has become a routinely brandished retaliatory weapon. The idea that a three-word label can encapsulate the character of a person is problematic.
13 August 2012
Jasbir Puar and Maya Mikdashi: Over the past year, we have been carefully observing and participating in the rise of anti-pinkwashing queer activism in the United States and Europe as scholars, activists and editors of online and print media. This activism has followed a similar, though not equivalent trajectory to activism in the Middle East.
13 August 2012
Mehdi Hasan: Its growing internal divisions raise questions about its claim to be a secular, liberal, democratic and Jewish state.
13 August 2012
The Palestinian scouting movement makes up a chapter of this nation’s history that is often forgotten. Founded in 1912 this year marks their centenary.
13 August 2012
Kareem Fahim: President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt forced the retirement on Sunday of his powerful defense minister, the army chief of staff and other senior generals, moving more aggressively than ever before to reclaim political power that the military had seized since the fall of Hosni Mubarak last year.
7 August 2012
Avraham Burg: When an American presidential candidate visits Israel and his key message is to encourage us to pursue a misguided war with Iran, declaring it "a solemn duty and a moral imperative" for America to stand with our warmongering prime minister, we know that something profound and basic has changed in the relationship between Israel and the United States.
7 August 2012
Nadia Hijab: Foreign aid to Palestine is desperately in need of rethinking. Wittingly or not, external aid facilitates Israel's occupation, enables an inept Palestinian leadership to survive, and subverts much of Palestinian civil society. The extent of the dependency on aid means the Palestinian Authority (PA) must spend considerable energy begging for handouts from Arab governments, the European Union, and the United States.
7 August 2012
Yousef M. Aljamal: "You will become an uncle soon," my sister Zeinab told me cheerfully. She didn’t know then what fate had in store for her, for us. In April 2007, as I was getting ready to sit my high school final exams known as tawjihi, one of the most important exams in Palestine, I learned that my pregnant sister had fallen sick. She was taken to hospital where she received medical attention for two days.
7 August 2012
Amira Hass: There were more than 50 reports of Israelis assaulting Palestinians in the West Bank last month. In the start of a regular series, Haaretz details one particularly violent attack.
7 August 2012
Munib R. Masri: Earlier this week, while Israel’s cheerleaders and Las Vegas casino moguls were parsing every syllable uttered by Mitt Romney in Jerusalem as fastidiously as the Olympic judges were scrutinizing every back flip in London, millions of Palestinians issued a giant collective yawn.
7 August 2012
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours: "It will collapse, and the collapse will be harder when it happens later," says Tareq Sadeq, Palestinian economist and professor at Birzeit University, about the financial bubble building up in the Palestinian Authority government.
7 August 2012
Israeli forces closed a road linking two villages in the Hebron hills on Tuesday, a local official said. Rateb Jabour, head of Yatta's popular committee against the wall, told Ma'an that Israel's army closed the road linking Jinba and Khirbet Bir al'Idd villages and set-up a checkpoint.
7 August 2012
Tomer Zarchin: Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman last week signed regulations requiring plaintiffs to cite their Israeli ID or passport number on documents they file.
7 August 2012
Abigail Hauslohner: After a brazen militant attack on an Egyptian base led to the deaths of 16 soldiers, questions are growing over whether Egypt's fragile government can control Islamist extremism on its Israeli border.
7 August 2012
Jihan Abdalla: An aid convoy left the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday carrying food and medicine in a symbol of support for Palestinian refugees caught up in the crisis in Syria. "Today the first convoy will leave from here, from the West Bank, from Palestinian soil towards Syria," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said at a press event marking the event.
7 August 2012
Noah Browning: A meeting of international envoys due to be held in the West Bank to show support for the Palestinian leadership was scrapped on Sunday after Israel refused to admit attendees from four countries, Palestinian officials said.
30 July 2012
Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo: The CIA station chief opened the locked box containing the sensitive equipment he used from his home in Tel Aviv, Israel, to communicate with CIA headquarters in Virginia, only to find that someone had tampered with it. He sent word to his superiors about the break-in.
30 July 2012
Harriet Sherwood: Speech in Jerusalem puts Israel's accomplishments down to 'power of at least culture and a few other things.'
30 July 2012
The Palestinian economy's recent growth is unsustainable because of its heavy reliance on foreign aid, a World Bank report said Wednesday.
30 July 2012
Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian worker and injured two others, one of them seriously, after opening fire at a van as it approached a checkpoint near Jerusalem early Monday, medics said.
30 July 2012
Harriet Sherwood: The number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank grew by more than 15,000 in the past year to reach a total that exceeds 350,000 for the first time and has almost doubled in the past 12 years.
30 July 2012
Sam Bahour: Nearly two decades ago, I had a dream. I thought the historic tragedy that befell the Palestinian people was about to end. As such, I refused to be an observer to the historic events that were unfolding; instead, I chose to employ my U.S. education and work experience to contribute to building a new reality on the ground -- to build an economy that could serve the new and emerging state of Palestine. My dream has become a nightmare, one that is being sustained, and financially...
30 July 2012
Mustafa Barghouthi: When presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives in Israel Saturday and travels to occupied East Jerusalem to see the holy sites there he will be entering a city I am no longer allowed to visit – privately or as a medical doctor or as a presidential candidate. He somehow possesses more rights to the city than I do despite the fact that I was born in Jerusalem and worked as a medical doctor in Makassed hospital for several years. During my presidential campaign I was...
30 July 2012
Gary Spedding: Correspondence between the BBC's Middle East Bureau Chief, Paul Danahar and Israeli Prime Ministers office spokesperson Mark Regev reveal yet another politicised attempt to bully the world into accepting Israel's illegal and illegitimate claim of Jerusalem as the Jewish state's "United and Eternal" Capital.
30 July 2012
Yossi Sarid: Soon be a binational state, which is either South Africa or South Africa, because there is no third option. And that South Africa has long since ceased to exist.
30 July 2012
Lourdes Garcia-Navarro: The Kalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah in the West Bank is best known as a flashpoint between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces. Images of masked youths throwing rocks by the painted concrete wall here are ubiquitous.
30 July 2012
Nima Shirazi: The Washington Post seems to be incapable of preventing its opinion writers from making racist statements about Palestinians and Africans in columns about the demography of Israel.
30 July 2012
Sharif Nashashibi: Palestinian leaders, organisations and officials were generally silent at the start of Syria's revolution, mainly out of concern for the fate of the half million Palestinian refugees in the country. However, that has now changed, and not in President Bashar al-Assad's favour.
30 July 2012
Andrew Veselka: Attending a Jewish Sunday school every weekend for eight years, few things are drilled into your mind as much as the greatness of the nation of Israel. But the mistakes Israel has made in governing its own people pale in comparison to its treatment of the still occupied territories.
23 July 2012
An activist says the longest-ever Palestinian hunger striker has ended his protest after 103 days in exchange for a pledge of release by Israel five months early.
23 July 2012
Ali Abunimah: Akram Rikhawi, who had been on hunger strike for more than 100 days, has ended his fast in exchange for an agreement by Israel for his early release. Prisoner’s rights group Addameer issued the following statement today...
23 July 2012
Arab foreign ministers have backed Palestinian plans to seek an upgrade to their status at the United Nations to that of a non-member state, Palestinian officials said.
23 July 2012
Sarah El Deeb: Egypt is allowing freer temporary entry for Palestinians into the country in an unprecedented move that eases long-imposed travel restrictions, particularly on Gazans, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said Monday.
23 July 2012
Noah Browning: Brazen and in broad daylight, "Israeli infantry" plunge deep into the West Bank Palestinian capital of Ramallah, hoisting a flag atop a makeshift checkpoint.
23 July 2012
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has reached a settlement with an innocent Palestinian grocer whom he portrayed as a terrorist in his 2009 movie 'Bruno,' according to reports on Friday.
23 July 2012
Murtaza Hussain: Israel faces an existential threat from the Netanyahu government's embrace of settlements in the West Bank.
23 July 2012
Rabbi Alissa Wise: At first glance, my work as a rabbi may look untraditional. Instead of serving a congregation, I do my rabbinic work by organizing for justice and equality for all the people of Israel and Palestine. This work includes supporting the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s efforts in Pittsburgh this past week to pass an overture calling for selective divestment from companies that profit from human rights abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
23 July 2012
Shaul Arieli: How did it happen that Israel is endangering the solid Jewish majority that lives in 78 percent of the area of the Land of Israel, because it wants to annex another 3 percent in the West Bank?
23 July 2012
Sari Bashi: The recent government-sanctioned Levy Report on settlement outposts unmasks the comfortable lie that Israeli government lawyers have told the courts and the rest of the world for decades, namely that Israel’s presence in the West Bank is temporary and measures designating Palestinian land and natural resources for Israeli use are motivated by security concerns.
23 July 2012
Budour Hassan: On July 14, thousands of Palestinian refugees marched in a funeral procession for 11 unarmed protesters shot dead by Syrian security forces in the al-Yarmouk refugee camp. Raucous and seething with rage, mourners chanted for Syria and Palestine, called for the downfall of Bashar Assad’s regime, and sang for freedom.
16 July 2012
Jodi Rudoren: Three young Palestinian women sat on the floor at a summer camp this week surrounded by Legos and 3-year-olds. As the toddlers played, the women taught them the color of each block, repeating the words in Arabic, azrak for blue or akhdar for green.
16 July 2012
Arshad Mohammed: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, arriving in Jerusalem from newly Islamist-controlled Egypt, told a wary Israel on Monday to treat the Arab Spring as an opportunity as well as a source of uncertainty convulsing the Middle East.
16 July 2012
Joel Greenberg: Basel Nassar, a young Palestinian doctor from this city, is not allowed to practice medicine here. So instead, he flew to Houston last week to take the last phase of a licensing exam that will qualify him to work in the United States.
16 July 2012
Nidal al-Mughrabi: Israel allowed 40 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to visit relatives held in Israeli jails on Monday, the first such visits in five years, implementing a deal reached in May that ended a prisoners' hunger strike, families and officials said.
16 July 2012
Some 1300 Palestinian prisoners held at Ofer military camp near Ramallah threatened to boycott family visitations to protest ill-treatment of their families, a press release by the Ministry of Prisoners said Saturday.
16 July 2012
Egypt’s new president holds the key to blockaded Gaza, but he is signaling that he won’t rush to help the territory’s Hamas rulers by striking a border deal with them, even though they are fellow members of the region’s Muslim Brotherhood.
16 July 2012
Kairos Palestine, a group of Palestinian Christians who co-authored the document A Moment of Truth, denounces Michael Oren’s recent op-ed piece published in the Wall Street Journal (9 March 2012).
16 July 2012
Remi Kanazi: The UC has double standards when it comes to Palestinians and their right to free speech.
16 July 2012
Noam Sheizaf: The fragility of the Palestinian Authority and growing support within Israel for direct control over the West Bank are reshaping the political dynamic.
16 July 2012
Anna Baltzer: There is a moment, just before a pendulum changes direction, when it is perfectly still. It is precisely that moment that marks the end of an old way and the beginning of a new one. That is what happened for divestment at the 2012 Presbyterian Church USA (PC(USA)) General Assembly in Pittsburgh.
16 July 2012
Anaheed Al-Hardan: As the uprising in Syria has developed into an armed insurrection — and as the regime has shifted its initial security response to the uprising to a full-scale military one — the specter of the mayhem and destruction that engulfed Iraq following the US invasion in 2003 today haunts the country.
9 July 2012
Linah Alsaafin: Many Palestinians seem to believe Arafat was poisoned by the Israeli intelligence or from within Fatah's ranks.
9 July 2012
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has given his permission to exhume the remains of his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, a top aide said Monday, days after a Swiss institute reported finding elevated traces of a radioactive substance on the late leader’s belongings.
9 July 2012
Palestinian Authority Prisoners Minister Issa Qaraqe said Monday that President Mahmoud Abbas refused an Israeli offer for the staged release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for returning to peace talks.
9 July 2012
Amira Hass: "A Palestinian child is a potential terrorist," an IDF prosecutor candidly told a delegation of nine visiting British lawyers. The attorneys, who visited Israel for a week in September 2011, reviewed and analyzed Israeli law and practice regarding the detention and prosecution of Palestinian children.
9 July 2012
The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court Monday convicted two Israeli police officers of “negligent homicide” and sentenced them for two-and-a-half years in prison for abandoning and leaving an injured Palestinian to die on the side of the road, according to Israeli media reports.
9 July 2012
Rami G. Khouri: I have spent the last three days in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, participating in the Presbyterian Church-USA’s consideration of resolutions on Middle Eastern and peacemaking issues. Most notably, this includes a call for the church to divest its shares in three American companies – Caterpillar, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard – whose products are used for “non-peaceful pursuits” that aid the Israeli occupation of Palestinians.
9 July 2012
Ben White: It has been a bad week at the office for the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership. Last weekend, protests on successive days against the proposed meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Kadima Party head Shaul Mofaz were met with violent attacks by PA forces.
9 July 2012
Ryvka Barnard: Over one weekend, two seemingly incongruous sets of images dominated the news from Palestine: one set displayed local tourism operators and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials in Bethlehem celebrating the designation of the Nativity Church as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The other set of images, coming from Ramallah, showed PA police and thugs beating protestors, who had taken to the streets in anger over a scheduled (but later cancelled) Ramallah meeting between Israel’s...
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