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PNC elects President Abbas as President of State of Palestine

May 4, 2018 English 0

The 23rd ordinary session of the Palestinian National Council, Palestine’s parliament in exile, unanimously elected President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday as head of the State of Palestine and head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Azzam al-Ahmad, member of the PLO Executive Committee, announced on Friday early morning that Abbas …

President Abbas says he did not intend to offend Jews

May 4, 2018 English 0

President Mahmoud Abbas stated on Friday that “if people were offended by my statement in front of the PNC, especially people of the Jewish faith, I apologize to them. I would like to assure everyone that it was not my intention to do so, and to reiterate my full respect …

Settlers set fire to Palestinian crops south of Hebron

May 4, 2018 English 0

Israeli settlers Friday set fire to Palestinian crops in Masafer Yatta to the south of Hebron in the southern West Bank, said a local activist. Rateb Jabour, a local anti-settlement activist, said that a group of Israeli settlers from Maon settlement set fire to wheat and barley crops harvested from …

Newspapers review: Re-election of Abbas as PLO chairman focus of dailies

May 4, 2018 Newspapers 0

The re-election of President Mahmoud Abbas as the Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee at the end of the four-day meeting of the Palestinian National Council (PNC) in Ramallah hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies on Friday. The dailies reported that Abbas was “unanimously” re-elected as the chairman …

Hebron shooter to be released in May for ‘good behaviour’

March 21, 2018 English 0

Israeli soldier, Elor Azaria, was convicted of manslaughter, and jailed for 18 months, for the March 2016 killing of Abdel al-Fattah Sl-Sharif in the occupied West Bank Elor Azaria, an Israeli soldier who killed an unarmed and wounded Palestinian, will be released from prison in May, after serving only two …

Jabareen: Clear Racism and anti-Semitism

March 21, 2018 English 0

Yousef Jabareen, Member of Knesset, Hadash/Aljabha – The Joint list, wrote in twitter: Imagine a French village that decides to stop opening land for sale because too many Jews were buyers. Clear Racism and anti-Semitism. Haarerz revealed a similar situation in Kfar Vradim, against Arabs. History repeats itself.

[Pchrgaza-e] Arbitrary Measures Taken Against Cellular Telecommunications Companies and their Administrations in Gaza on Grounds of Investigations into Explosion Targeting Prime Minister’s Convoy

March 19, 2018 English 0

The Palestinian Center for human Rights (PCHR) follows up with deep concern the developments relevant to the investigations into the crime of targeting the Palestinian Prime Minister’s convoy in Gaza, particularly the decisions to close Catania Moble Company and repeatedly summoning Directors in Jawwal Company in Gaza and detaining them …

Foreign Policy: Haley: Vote With U.S. at U.N. or We’ll Cut Your Aid

March 16, 2018 English 0

In a proposed aid overhaul, Nikki Haley embraces an “America first” foreign policy. BY COLUM LYNCH U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is proposing a sweeping reassessment of U.S. foreign assistance with a view to punishing dozens of poor countries that vote against U.S. policies at the U.N., …

Mondoweiss: Students from across the Universities of California call on regents to divest from Israeli human rights abuses

March 16, 2018 English 0

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Yesterday, students, campus workers, and allies from across the University of California system were in Los Angeles to call on the UC Regents to listen to student voices and divest university funds from corporations that profit from human rights abuses against the Palestinian people. Following the UC Regents’ signing of …

Sign this card for the Corrie Family

March 16, 2018 English 0

I remember so well this day fifteen years ago. We had all marched the week before in the biggest demonstration I had ever seen against the Iraq War, but the specter of war still hung over every moment. Then the news came that a young woman named Rachel Corrie had …

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Appeal from Palestine to the Peoples and States of the World

For many years, Israel has remained an occupying power, occupying the territory of another state and controlling its people. It is a colonial state enforcing settler colonialism, including confiscating land, transferring its population to the territory it is occupying, and enacting a separate living system therein. It is a State that commits grave violations of international law, including international humanitarian law and human rights law. It is a State that denies the Palestinian people their right to self-determination and national independence and denies the rights of Palestine refugees, including their right to return, ownership and compensation. It is a State that has ignored international will, rejected and violated all relevant United Nations resolutions and conventions.

Recently, the situation has worsened considerably. We have seen an increasing Israeli shift toward extremism, fundamentalism and even fascism. We have also seen a complete reversal of concluded agreements and attempts to take settler colonialism to another level. Israeli officials have publicly voiced positions that reject the Palestinian people’s existence and national rights and confirm the desire to seize all of the Palestinian territory.

As well, Trump’s recently issued so-called, “Vision for Peace, Prosperity and a Brighter Future for Israel and the Palestinian People” is in fact not a peace plan, but rather an adoption of the outrageous ideologies that advance greater Israel, deny Palestinian national existence, and
attempt to find possible solutions for the “Palestinian inhabitants” in a disconnected entity that they can call a state – if they meet many additional and impossible conditions. The plan paves the way for Israel to annex large swathes of the West Bank, including the areas of illegal settlements, the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea, and areas west of the Wall – which the International Court of Justice affirmed the illegality of and the need to dismantle and make reparations for the damage caused by its construction in 2004.

The Israeli Prime Minister has now and in many instances declared his intention to annex these areas, a position that was stated expressly in the partnership agreement of the current Israeli government – which makes it part of official government policy – along with the annexation of occupied East Jerusalem, which the international community has unanimously rejected and deemed to be null and void. Such Israeli policies and procedures constitute a grave violation of the principles and relevant provisions of international law – even annul international law and the conduct of States, upon which the international system as a whole is based – extinguish the possibility of a negotiated settlement between the two sides, and thus inevitably provoke a long confrontation with catastrophic results.

It is the duty of the international community, its States, people and civil society organizations to confront this, prevent it from happening and, if it does, to take punitive and deterrent measures. Reluctance to seriously confront all of this would be a shameful abrogation and would create repercussions in the region as well as the international system. Inaction would be a betrayal of values and principles, a retreat from a negotiated settlement and the establishment of peace in the region based on partition into two states.

As concerns the aforementioned, we, Palestinian leaders from all walks of life, including academics, former officials and civil society, appeal to the international community to take the necessary positions and measures to confront and stop this injustice, to preserve the goal of establishing peace and a secure and viable future for the people of the region, including the Palestinian and Israeli peoples, each in their independent state. We specifically ask that immediate action be taken to affirm:

1. By various means, the position against any annexation by Israel of the Occupied Palestinian Territory as a grave violation of the principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, as well as in flagrant violation of relevant UN Security Council resolutions.

2. The need for all States of the world to abide by relevant UN Security Council resolutions, including resolution 2334 (2016), specifically to not recognize any changes to the 1967 borders. Additionally, that all States with relations or cooperation agreements with Israel commit to the principle of distinction between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to reject any attempt by Israel to disparage this principle.

3. The need for all States to take specific measures against settlements, settlers and settlement products, including preventing such products from entering their markets, in implementation of the legal contractual obligations of States (third parties) in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention, 1949.

4. The need for political entities and civil society organizations to confront the attempt by a few governments to criminalize the above measures, as such criminalization would constitute a violation of international law, or to criminalize support for boycotting Israel on the basis of political and moral considerations, as such criminalization would constitute a violation of values of democracy and fundamental rights of citizens in the concerned States.

5. The need for all States that have relations or cooperation agreements with Israel to take punitive measures in regard to these agreements, in the event Israel takes any step to implement annexation.

6. The need for the States that have not yet recognized, to extend recognition to the State of Palestine, on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, in compliance with the principle
of partition into two states, acknowledging the existence of two states, and upholding a politically negotiated two-state solution – a step that will guarantee the above.

7. Support the steps taken by the State of Palestine and other countries before the International Criminal Court, and national courts throughout the world that allow such legal challenges, against Israeli officials responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including annexation.

8. Support Palestinian, Arab and international efforts in the UN Security Council, General Assembly and other international institutions against any Israeli move toward annexation, in the event such step is taken. In addition, to condemn and declare this move illegal, null and void; to call on all States of the world to renounce and refuse recognition, and to deem Israel an outlaw state.

9. Reaffirm opposition to the so-called Trump Vision and reject all positions by right-wing extremists and settlers in Israel and extreme religious right in America – all of whom aim to achieve greater Israel, deny the national rights and even the national existence of the Palestinian people.

10. Support the Palestinian people, Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority in their continuing struggle to confront annexation in the face of Trump’s Vision and achieve their national goals, freedom and independence.

We, the undersigned, well aware of the great responsibilities placed upon us and the Palestinian people to strengthen our capacities, first and foremost the unity of the Palestinian people and its institutions in confronting the aforementioned, hereby address this appeal to all components of the international community to uphold their responsibilities and take the necessary positions and measures at this historic juncture.

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PNC elects President Abbas as President of State of Palestine

President Abbas says he did not intend to offend Jews

Settlers set fire to Palestinian crops south of Hebron

Newspapers review: Re-election of Abbas as PLO chairman focus of dailies

Hebron shooter to be released in May for ‘good behaviour’

Jabareen: Clear Racism and anti-Semitism

[Pchrgaza-e] Arbitrary Measures Taken Against Cellular Telecommunications Companies and their Administrations in Gaza on Grounds of Investigations into Explosion Targeting Prime Minister’s Convoy

Foreign Policy: Haley: Vote With U.S. at U.N. or We’ll Cut Your Aid

Mondoweiss: Students from across the Universities of California call on regents to divest from Israeli human rights abuses

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