Israel’s Bogus Civil War
Nazareth: Is Israel on the verge of civil war, as a growing number of Israeli commentators suggest, with its Jewish population deeply riven over the future of the occupation? On one…
Palestine
The Human Rights Of The Settler
Just a few weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that he cares about the rights and lives of Palestinians in Gaza more than the Palestinian leadership does, he posted…
Is Israel Pushing For A Palestinian Civil War?
Division within Palestinian society has reached unprecedented levels, becoming a major hurdle on the path of any unified strategy to end Israel’s violent occupation or to rally Palestinians behind…
Punishing The Messenger: Israel’s War On NGOs Takes A Worrying Turn
“You deserve to see your loved ones suffer and die. But, maybe, you would be hurt before them,” was part of a threatening message received by a staff member at…
Inside the Middle East – Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth
Reading Inside the Middle East is quite an adventure. I learned that I probably am a fairly quixotic fanatic tilting at windmills; that I need to learn how to be…
Divide And Rule: How Factionalism In Palestine Is Killing Prospect For Freedom
As Palestinians in the Occupied Territories begin preparations for local elections which are scheduled for next October, division and factionalism are rearing their ugly head. Palestinian political platforms and social…
The Horror Of Childhood Under Occupation
Norma Hashim’s engagement with the issue of Palestinian prisoners has previously produced one book — The Prisoners’ Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag — which has been described by former hunger-striker Hana…
Israel and The World Vision Crime Sham
The crackpot Israeli Hasbara* Circus featuring the four clowns of the truth apocalypse, Shin Bet, the Israel government, Shurat HaDin and the mainstream media fools, has, yet again, hit the…
Israeli Racism Unmasks Netanyahu Goodwill Video
Nazareth: Was it meant as an epic parody or an insult to his audience’s intelligence? It was hard to tell. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to social media to…
A response To “Gate Of The Sun” By Elias Khoury
On this hot Italian late afternoon, after over a week inside the literary work entitled Gate of the Sun, I am still wandering in the gossamer framework of the novel…
Israel’s Hydro-Apartheid Keeps West Bank Thirsty
Water shortages are not new for Palestinians. Whether in the occupied Gaza Strip or the West Bank including East Jerusalem, the supply of water flowing into Palestinian homes is strictly…
Farewell To Yarmouk: A Palestinian Refugee’s Journey From Izmir To Greece
(Based on interviews with Palestinian refugees from Syria.) The refugee camp of Yarmouk was ever present in his being, pulling him in and out of an abyss of persistent fears…
My Daughter Sends Joy To Gaza
It has been a long time since my family has had reason to celebrate. For nine years my wife Faten and I have been intermittently separated from our school-age children…
A Roadmap For Lebanon To Grant Civil Rights For Palestinian Refugees In Lebanon
The United Nations Human Rights Council, along with the global community and many in Lebanon, has become increasingly concerned about the massive violations of Palestinian civil rights. As noted in…
Money Talks As Trump Does U-Turn On Israel
Nazareth: The grubby underside of US electoral politics is on show once again as the Democratic and Republican candidates prepare to fight it out for the presidency. And it doesn’t…
Life Turned Upside Down In Gaza
Inas Abu Muhadi cannot understand that she will never see her dad again. She remembers that her dad had a scooter. And each time she hears one, she expects to…
Lebanon Escalates Its Denial Of Civil Rights For Palestinian Refugees
Yarmouk Palestinian camp, Damascus: In Lebanon today, Palestinians are beingthreatened by the governmentthat ISIS (Daesh) and Al Nursa are plotting to take over Ain el-Helweh and the other 11 camps…
Jerusalem: City Of Fear
A few days ago, I was driving through Qalandiya checkpoint for the first time since I came back to Jerusalem. My dad, sitting next to me, had to yell…
Oktoberfest In Palestine
Taybeh is the last all-Christian and self-sufficient community in the occupied state of Palestine. “Taybeh” means delicious when referring to food or drink. “Taybeh” means “kind” and “good” when referring…
Being Black Palestinian: Solidarity As A Welcome Pathology
Last year, I wrote an article that made many readers unhappy. As soon as it was published, I began receiving messages of abuse and angry, threatening calls. I hesitated about…
People Above Politics: Political Deal Will Not Hamper The Turkish-Palestinian Bond
Hyped emotions, and political opportunism aside, the Israel-Turkey normalization deal, signed on June 27 is unfavorable for Palestinians – and for Gazans, in particular. There is much that is being said to…
Israel Implements Collective Punishment After The Stabbing Of Teenager
Following the stabbing of a 13-year-old Israeli girl in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba by a young Palestinian on Thursday, Benyamin Netanyahu’s coalition government moved swiftly to implement…
Gaza Tunnels Seen As Vital Tool Of Resistance
It was a warm night in Jabaliya, northeast of Gaza City. Abu Zein and his wife were fast asleep when what the couple first thought was an earthquake shook their…
Turkey-Israel Deal Leaves Gaza Siege Intact
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip expressed anger and dismay on Monday about the deal normalizing relations between Israel and Turkey that leaves them under a suffocating siege. An Israeli human…
Gaza Fishermen Suffocated At sea
A group of Gaza fishermen were working an early morning shift when the Israeli navy opened fire. Rajab Abu Riyala and his brother Khaled were shot during that 31 May…
Palestine’s ‘Prayer For Rain’: How Israel Uses Water As A Weapon Of War
Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming development has been taking place…
Israel’s Fear Of The ‘Desert’ Jews In Its Midst
Ashkenazim feared that one day the Arab Jews might make a political alliance with the native population, the Palestinians. Then the Ashkenazim would be outnumbered. The Mizrahim, who came from…
Conquest And Tyranny vs Peace And Justice
Conquest and tyranny, at some earlier period, dispossessed man of his rights, and he is now recovering them. And as the tide of all human affairs has its ebb and…
Israel Wants A Peace Process – But Only If It’s Doomed To Fail
Nazareth: In a familiar muddying of the waters, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent the past week talking up peace while fiercely criticising Friday’s summit in France – the…
Israel’s Future Is Terrifying: Moshe Ya’alon And Israel’s Disconcerting ‘Morality’
Israeli society is constantly swerving to the Right and, by doing so, the country’s entire political paradigm is redefined regularly. Israel is now ‘ruled by the most extreme rightwing government…
Dreams Of Control: Israel, Global Censorship, And The Internet
“Under the cover of darkness, there is no limit to the expansion of Big Brother.” Ilan Gilon, Meretz Party (Israel), Times of Israel, Feb 4, 2016 While Israel’s central justification…
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