The Palestinian people, like all peoples of conscience and moral responsibility, condemns the use of violence against innocent civilians. However, Palestine, under Israel’s belligerent occupation, has been subject to the …
Read More »Erekat: What Israel seeks is Apartheid
Saeb Erekat – The Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. At the end of August 1993, I accompanied Farouk Kaddoumi, The PLO’s foreign minister, to a meeting of Arab foreign …
Read More »Failing in planning means planning of failing
By Dr. Hanna Issa, International Law Professor Planning: is the humane approach which aims to take decisions in the present and have an impact on the future; indeed will consider …
Read More »Erekat: Palestine cries ‘We exist’ to the world as UN raises its flag
By Dr. Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation For decades the flag of Palestine has represented the struggle of a whole nation for its human …
Read More »Priests to Abbas: Address the Cremisan valley confiscation case at the UN
Delivered by Fr Ibrahim Shomali Thank you, Mr President, The CCIA of the World Council of Churches would like to express its deep concern on the building of the Israeli annexation …
Read More »Abbas: The first-ever raising of Palestine’s flag at the UN is our moment of hope
Op-Ed by Mahmoud Abbas/ The Huffington Post/ Today, the Palestinian flag will be raised for the first time at the United Nations headquarters in New York and at other U.N. …
Read More »Aqsa Mosque needs actions not words
By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Jerusalem By now it should be amply clear that Israel is quite bent on seizing al Masjidul Aqsa, partly or fully, from Muslim hands. Jewish …
Read More »Administrative detention and Israel’s moral imperative
By Alon Ben-Meir Palestinian lawyer Mohammed Allan, who went on hunger strike for 65 days to protest his indefinite detention in Israeli custody, was subsequently moved into medical care and …
Read More »Op-Ed. Out of the Monkey Cage
By : Ofra Yeshua-Lyth and Ghassan Olayan / Thinking beyond the two-state solution does not necessarily imply the end of democracy
Read More »Op-Ed. The Holocaust of the Dawabsheh family
By Khalid Amayreh/ Reham Dawabsheh, 27, has finally succumbed to the critical wounds she sustained when Jewish settlers torched her home at the village of Duma south of Nablus in …
Read More »EU labeling Israeli settlement products not enough: BDS
BDS/ The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the broadest coalition in Palestinian society that leads the global BDS movement, considered the European Union’s move towards labeling Israeli …
Read More »Op-Ed. Our president is jailed
By Kayed Ma’ari Yet again Palestinian president Mr. Mahmoud Abbas has Declared that he needs a permission to pass the check points from the Israeli occupation Authorities . Essentially, Abbas means …
Read More »Op-Ed. Palestine and Israel: The Double-Standard
By Robert Fantina In the world of marketing, it is a given that what ‘delights’ the customer today, will simply be an expectation tomorrow. For example, when cameras were first …
Read More »A time for some summer levity: A conversation between Netanyahu and Abbas
The following conversation between Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is fictitious.
Read More »A successor for President Abbas? Who and how?
By Rashid Shahin Rumours have been spreading recently about the intention of President Abbas to abandon all his titles, and perhaps leave or retire from politics. Abbas has grown old …
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