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Oddly, it was Israeli historian Benny Morris who got it right, when he offered a candid prediction of the future of his country and its war with the...
On October 28, the Israeli Knesset passed a second reading of two bills that effectively ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian Refugees...
The Israeli Knesset last week adopted two bills that will effectively ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, from carrying out any...
Under the slogan ‘Gaza is Ours, Forever’, a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near...
Under the slogan “Gaza is Ours, Forever,” a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement
There is a difference between a country fighting a defensive war on multiple fronts and another fighting for colonial expansion, for regional...
Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two...
"Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will fill your homes with noise and laughter." ...
“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.”...
Palestinians, despite the military occupation, the siege, and the numerous failures of their leadership, remain political actors, with powerful...
No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and that millions of people...
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon is...
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during its intense and deadly bombardments in southern Lebanon is that the...
Two historical events regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine have taken place on July 19 and September 18. The first was a most comprehensive...
Never in its history of war, and military occupation has Israel been so incapable of developing a coherent plan for its future, and the future of its...
Never in its history of war and military occupation has Israel been so incapable of developing a coherent plan for its future and the future of its...
In April 2021, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree postponing parliamentary and presidential elections, which were...
In April 2021, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree postponing parliamentary and presidential elections, which were...
When asked why his latest map had erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the most detestable of...
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed, on August 26, to build a synagogue inside the Muslim holy site Al-Haram Al-Sharif. Ben-Gvir,...
The Israeli war on Gaza has become a war on Palestinian children. This was as true on October 7 as it is today. On August 17, UN Secretary-General...
The Israeli war on Gaza has become a war on Palestinian children. This was as true on October 7 as it is today. More The post War on Children – Gaza...
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed, on Aug. 26, to build a synagogue inside the Muslim holy site Al-Haram Al-Sharif. Ben-Gvir,...
When the U.S. urges an end to the war in Gaza while continuing to flood Israel with more weapons, the logic seems utterly flawed and entirely...
Instilling fear in the Palestinian people is not a side effect of the IDF's brutal violations of human rights. It is the strategy.
Targeting a school during a war could be justified or, at least, argued to have been a mistake. But striking more than 120 schools, killing and...
The political shift in Europe to a pro-Palestine, or at least less emphatically pro-Israeli position, is happening at a much faster rate than anyone...
Many political analysts believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is buying time in Gaza and Lebanon in the hope that Donald Trump...
Providing aid to Gaza and ensuring the reconstruction of the strip must not be a political item for negotiations. It is a basic human right that must...
Israel never learns from its mistakes. What Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to implement in Gaza is a poor copy of previous strategies...
I write this because I fear that readers and viewers would only associate Nuseirat with massacres, with lifeless bodies lined up on the floor, covered...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that “there will be no civil war” in Israel. But he might be wrong. Netanyahu’s...
The lack of such a "vision" does not entirely rest on Netanyahu's own failure to produce one, but due to his inability to determine,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is often criticized for failing to produce a vision for the “next day,” meaning the day following the...
For some in the west, the issue is not just unwavering U.S. support of Israel's policies against Palestinians. It is also about the future of the...
Not so long ago, if one were to say that a top Spanish government official would someday declare that “from the river to the sea, Palestine would be...
An international survey leads to the unmistakable conclusion that Western globalization has failed to create the proper environment for social...
Thanks to Palestinian memory, Palestinians are once more united around their understanding of the past, which is returning hope for a better future.
Inadvertently, Israel has pressed the reset button on its war with the Palestinian people, taking the so-called conflict back to square one. Save a...
By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli war on Gaza, UNESCO has acknowledged
What is taking place in the Occupied Territories is not a conflict but a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic...
Millions of Americans are clearly fed up, with war, with their government’s allegiance to a foreign country, to militarism, to police violence, to...
The mass protests at dozens of US universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about antisemitism. Thousands of American...