Dr Husam Zomlot Whether or not Israel’s government goes through with the annexation of any part of the occupied West Bank starting in July as the newly formed Israeli government has declared, one thing is clear, this is not an existential threat to the Palestinian people. It is an existential …
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By : Tayseer Khaled * The meetings that currently taking place in Washington and Tell Aviv , between senior American and Israeli officials headed by the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo , President Trump’s Adviser, Jared Kushner, and the American Administration to the Middle East’s envoy, Avi Berkowitz, with …
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Written by Mitchell Plitnick A diverse array of over 100 groups that support Palestinian rights announced today that they had sent a letter to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, urging him to adopt policies toward Israel and the Palestinians “based on the principles of equality and justice for all.” …
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Written by Mitchell Plitnick In December 2017, as Donald Trump was preparing to announce his intention to effectively recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, I warned of the risks of exaggerating the danger of such a move. If the protests die down after a few days, I cautioned, the …
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Written by Mitchell Plitnick The Palestinian Authority has sent the Quartet — the diplomatic body composed of the United States, Russia, the United Nations, and the European Union that is supposed to mediate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — a proposal in response to the Trump administration’s plan for Israel to annex …
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“Unilateral annexation would be dangerous for the state’s diplomatic, security and economic future,” he warned. By GIL HOFFMAN The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Alternative Prime Minister Benny Gantz should not unilaterally annex any land, Blue and White Agriculture Minister Alon Schuster told The Jerusalem Post late Sunday …
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David Makovsky with Basia Rosenbaum and Lauren Morganbesser June 15, 2020 New maps explore the scope of Israel’s potential moves next month, though domestic politics, unprecedented Gulf warnings, and other factors are raising questions about whether annexation will actually proceed. Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has repeatedly declared that he …
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By Iqbal Jassat Does the current wave of protests across America sparked by the brutal murder of George Floyd, present an existential threat to Israel? Astounding as it sounds, Israel’s propagandists and defenders have been shocked to suddenly “discover” that the parallels between America’s structural racism against blacks and the …
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The family of Iyad al-Hallaq, the Palestinian with autism killed by police, describes a man who had recently began to cook and was terrified of Israeli soldiers. ‘They took my mother’s joy and left a wound that won’t heal.’ By Suha Arraf* Iyad al-Hallaq had waited to return to school …
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After police killings of African Americans and Palestinians, an increasingly integrated white nationalist, Evangelical and right-wing Orthodox Jewish coalition blames them for being shot By Joshua Shanes* I haven’t slept these nights. When the Shavuot festival ended, I read about unrest across America, a reaction not only to George Floyd’s …
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