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Ramona Wadi

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The IDF's legacy, 75 years on

While Israel prefers to obliterate the 1948 Nakba from its historical memory despite being the perpetrator of Palestine's ethnic cleansing and...

01.06.2023 10

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Meaningless rhetoric from the PA and the international community over Ein Samiyah

As Israeli colonial violence resulted in the forced displacement of the 200 residents of Ein Samiyah in Area C of the Occupied West Bank, the range of...

30.05.2023 9

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The humanitarian paradigm is an act of political violence against Palestinians

The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, recently made another appeal for...

25.05.2023 20

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Beneath the rhetorical veneer of Abu Dis

In 2019, when the Trump administration revealed the so-called "Deal of the Century", a hypothetical capital of Palestine in the town of Abu Dis was...

23.05.2023 10

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The PA's glorification of Israel's colonial accomplices

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas never fails to blunder in his speeches. Speaking at the UN in New York on the 75th anniversary of the 1948...

19.05.2023 30

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The symbolic Nakba commemoration at the UN exposed Israel's hatred of the truth

"The thought that an international organisation could mark the establishment of one of its member states as a catastrophe or disaster is both...

16.05.2023 20

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The EU really values Israel's colonial enterprise

The EU Delegation in Israel only has a problem with Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security, and not with the existence and...

11.05.2023 20

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Behind the façade of humanitarian aid and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals

The humanitarian paradigm for Palestinians is not working, the UN should be informed. On the assumption that the Institution holds a shard of respect...

09.05.2023 10

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The PA protects Israel colonial expansion by promoting the two-state compromise

The Palestinian Authority is decades behind in its political approach. Israel is not "continuing" to destroy the two-state paradigm – it has already...

04.05.2023 30

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Khader Adnan's legacy will alter Palestinian politics among the people

Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails have suffered unprecedented levels of exploitation. At best, a hunger strike ends when Israel decides it...

02.05.2023 20

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Covering up Israel's settler-colonial foundations

With no reference to the political turbulence that Israel is currently experiencing within its settler-colonial society, let alone the horrors...

27.04.2023 10

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Memory and oblivion in Israel

25.04.2023 10

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On Palestine Prisoners' Day, the PA is silent about its own detainees

On Palestinian Prisoners' Day, the Palestinian Authority (PA) stayed silent about its detention and torture of Palestinians in its prisons. The PA...

20.04.2023 20

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The PA differentiates between colonial and collaborative oppression

When Israel targeted Palestinian non-governmental rights organisations in 2021 and 2022, the Palestinian Authority embarked on its own exploitation...

18.04.2023 20

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The international humanitarian paradigm keeps failing Palestinians

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been operating since 1 May 1950 under repeatedly renewed mandates in the absence of...

13.04.2023 10

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Israel resents being called out for its colonialism

11.04.2023 10

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The farce of UNHRC Agenda Item 7

The UN and its affiliated institutions have come up with various futile initiatives purportedly aimed at holding Israel accountable for its human...

06.04.2023 5

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The implications of 'defending' the two-state framework

When the Palestinian Authority speaks about the "support" it receives from the international community it would do well to revisit the blatant...

04.04.2023 4

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Colonialism allows no space for the colonised to speak

At the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Palestinian human rights organisations, Al Haq and Addameer drew attention to the systematic...

30.03.2023 10

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There is a pretence of opposition to only one form of Israel's colonial violence

Last month, Israel's National Security Minister, the far-right extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir, sought to facilitate the process for Israeli civilians to...

28.03.2023 40

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Israel's new cycles of forcibly displacing Palestinians

US President Joe Biden placed much emphasis on rhetorically opposing Israel's settlement expansion. Hence the reaction from Washington over the...

23.03.2023 10

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The erasure of Palestinians is becoming part of Israel mainstream discourse

Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, did not take long to issue another treacherous statement after explicitly calling for the Palestinian...

21.03.2023 10

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The US feigns being 'disturbed' by Israeli settler violence

Last week, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin acknowledged the current Israeli settler violence against the Palestinian people following a meeting with...

16.03.2023 20

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The PA foreign minister's contradictions support Israeli settler-colonialism

When the Palestinian Authority speaks about Israel's settler-colonialism, it dilutes any possible impact immediately by mentioning the two-state...

14.03.2023 20

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The PA is wrong to suppress Palestinian mourning

While the emerging Palestinian resistance has declared its opposition to Israel, the Palestinian Authority has unleashed its security services on the...

09.03.2023 50

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The emerging Palestinian resistance is a warning for the PA

For decades, the international community has assumed that it could subjugate Palestinians in the occupied West Bank with financial aid and bogus...

07.03.2023 20

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Israel isn't anti-pogrom, it just doesn't want Israeli collateral damage

02.03.2023 30

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The consequences of PA 'happiness' over diplomatic nothings

Last week, Palestinian Envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour said that he was "happy" about the international response to the UN Security Council Presidential...

28.02.2023 80

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Has The Guardian become a platform for Israel disinformation? 

When 2022 was claimed to be the deadliest year for Palestinians since 2005, international human rights organisations as well as those in Israel,...

26.02.2023 60

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The UN, Israel and the PA can no longer control the Palestinian narrative

23.02.2023 40

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The PA's capitulation to security coordination and financial aid

UN resolutions on Palestine are futile. Yet, the Palestinian Authority's backtracking on the draft resolution which was to be presented to the UN...

21.02.2023 9

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The compromised nature of humanitarian aid for Palestinian refugees

The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has described succinctly all that is wrong in politics with...

16.02.2023 30

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The two-state framework and the PA's betrayal of Palestinians

If the two-state compromise provided Israel with the veneer necessary for gradually moving towards annexation through settlement expansion,...

14.02.2023 10

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The EU uses the 'two-state' framework to evade acknowledgement of Israeli apartheid

In January 2021, the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem declared that Israel imposes apartheid on the people of occupied Palestine, prompting...

09.02.2023 10

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How long until Abbas reneges on his word about security coordination?

The Palestinian Authority continues to drown in its own political contradictions. Last month, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas stated that he was halting...

07.02.2023 20

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Israel's security narrative and the international community's humanitarian paradigm

Israel is up against renewed collective action in terms of Palestinian anti-colonial resistance. The Palestinian Authority has once again halted...

05.02.2023 20

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Blinken's visit sustains violence against the Palestinian people

If Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas had any loyalty towards Palestine and its people, his remarks during US Secretary of State Antony...

03.02.2023 30

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The Abraham Accords expose international hypocrisy over Palestine

US senators from the Democratic Party are claiming there is no contradiction between the Abraham Accords and the two-state compromise over...

01.02.2023 40

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Lapid exploits UN resolutions to further Israel's security narrative

The Israeli government is portraying itself as being worried about international delegitimisation at the UN. As the UN General Assembly Fourth...

01.12.2022 40

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Observations invalidate the two-state compromise

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process continues to speak from a vacuum that denies Israel's colonial existence as the main...

30.11.2022 50

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US concessions to Palestine always work in Israel's favour

Further proof of US President Joe Biden reneging on his electoral promises with regard to Palestine is the ongoing refusal to reopen the US Consulate...

24.11.2022 30

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The PA's failure in protecting Palestinians 

The Palestinian anti-colonial resistance has provided ample proof it will no longer take its cues from political factions, leaving both the...

22.11.2022 20

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