The creation of Hamas
A commenter wrote this: Perverse that the organization called a “Terrorist Organization” by the world media and political community was founded in part by Israel as a means of keeping violent militancy...
View ArticleIsrael, not Hamas, orchestrated the latest conflict in Gaza
Musa al-Gharbi writes: In the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, the dominant discourse is that the Palestinian militants provoked the hostilities — while Israel, as President Barack Obama...
View ArticleIsrael’s right of self defense
Both ISIS and the IDF warn people to leave their homes or be killed #ن — Alintisar (@Alintisar) July 23, 2014 Daniel Levy writes: Israeli self-defense does not include the right to (again) kill...
View ArticleIsrael provoked this war — Obama must end it
Henry Siegman writes: There seems to be near-universal agreement in the United States with President Barack Obama’s observation that Israel, like every other country, has the right and obligation to...
View Article#48KMarch to Jerusalem — start of the Third Intifada?
Clashes have been ongoing in #Nablus, #Jerusalem, #Ramallah, #Bethlehem as thousands of Palestinians resist Israeli forces #48KMarch #Gaza — PalestineNewsNetwork (@pnnenglish) July 24, 2014 #Jerusalem,...
View ArticleLive free or die: Palestinian unity resurrected
Muftah: As the death count in Gaza crept even closer to 1000 today, it seemed the imprisoned, ghettoized residents of the Strip were more alone than ever. But their Palestinian brothers and sisters in...
View ArticleMustafa Barghouti: ‘The Intifada has started’
Mustafa Barghouti marching on Qalandia: "The Intifada has started.This is the Intifada!" http://t.co/zGn02f99GE #Gaza pic.twitter.com/iSJZzpcPuE — Mondoweiss (@Mondoweiss) July 25, 2014 At Mondoweiss,...
View ArticleInterview with Hamas leader Khalid Meshaal
(I will post the complete interview once it’s available on PBS.)
View ArticleCollective punishment in Gaza
Rashid Khalidi writes: Three days after the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the current war in Gaza, he held a press conference in Tel Aviv during which he said, in Hebrew, according...
View ArticleIs another Intifada possible in the West Bank?
Ahmad Kittaneh was shot by Israeli soldiers on Thursday night during the largest protest in the West Bank since the Second Intifada. He and almost died. From his hospital bed he told Dalia Hatuqa,...
View ArticleTo end violence, end the occupation
Charlie Rose in conversation with Nadia Bilbassy-Charters, Khaled Elgindy, Rula Jebreal and Yousef Munayyer. Starts at 15 minutes 40 seconds.
View ArticleGlobal protests in solidarity with Palestinians — #GazaDayofRage
Biggest demo in South Africa since apartheid era. 200K marched in Cape Town for #Gaza pic.twitter.com/2rQV5t4qzk pic.twitter.com/iUzUbkZHhC — لينة (@LinahAlsaafin) August 9, 2014 Aman Jordan...
View ArticlePalestinians in #Gaza don’t want #Hamas to give up the fight
David Kenner writes: Why can’t the two sides reach a compromise? Why wouldn’t Hamas agree to an extension of the cease-fire, when its civilians and infrastructure are bearing the lion’s share of the...
View ArticleThe occupation is a political problem needing a political solution — not a...
Taghreed al-Khodary, former Gaza correspondent for the New York Times, said in an interview: Ending the siege is not a “Hamas demand.” It is the people’s demand. Gaza is still under occupation — it is...
View ArticleDesmond Tutu — My plea to the people of Israel: Liberate yourselves by...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes: The past weeks have witnessed unprecedented action by members of civil society across the world against the injustice of Israel’s disproportionately brutal response to...
View ArticleIsrael plans to expropriate 988 acres of West Bank
AFP reports: Israel announced Sunday it will expropriate 400 hectares (988 acres) of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, angering the Palestinians and alarming Israeli peace campaigners. The...
View ArticleAbbas may push for deadline to end occupation
The New York Times reports: President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority may use the global stage of the annual General Assembly here in a few weeks to publicly demand a deadline for ending...
View ArticleU.S. urges Israel to reverse planned West Bank land appropriation
Reuters reports: The United States sees Israel’s announcement on Sunday of a land appropriation for possible settlement construction in the occupied West Bank as “counterproductive” to peace efforts...
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