PA: Peace can only be achieved through Palestine leadership
Middle East Monitor / March 24, 2021
The Palestinian Authority (PA) said yesterday that peace can only be achieved through talks with it, a statement issued by the PA Foreign Ministry said.
This came after remarks made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an interview with Israel's Arabic...
Palestine prisoner goes on hunger strike as Israel refuses to set date for surgery
Middle East Monitor / March 23, 2021
Palestinian prisoner Maher Abu Rayan yesterday announced that he is launching a hunger strike, protesting delays in his medical treatment as a result of the actions of the Israeli Prison Service (IPS).
The 43-year-old, who hails from Hebron in the occupied West...
Israel election: The triumph of Kahanism
Richard Silverstein
Middle East Eye / March 24, 2021
As Netanyahu looks to cobble together his farthest-right coalition yet, western democratic governments and diaspora Jewish leaders need to take a stand.
The biggest winners in Tuesday’s Israeli election appear to be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the little-known Religious Zionist Party....
Save Sheikh Jarrah: Palestinians have a right to remain on their land
Kamel Hawwash
Middle East Eye / March 23, 2021
As Israel continues its ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah district, Palestinians are ramping up pressure on the international community to act.
The hashtags #SaveSheikhJarrah and its Arabic equivalent began appearing on my Twitter timeline recently. As a Palestinian activist, my first move...
Israel elections: Netanyahu has to marry strange bedfellows if he wants to form a...
Lily Galili
Middle East Eye / March 24, 2021
The prime minister's chances of forming a government appear pinned on a Palestinian party and a racist Jewish supremacist.
The unbelievable happened at 9am on Wednesday morning, after a long and stormy election night: Raam, headed by Mansour Abbas, reached the...
Five lessons from Israel’s election
Jonathan Cook
The Electronic Intifada / March 24, 2021
The final result from Israel’s general election may not be known for another day or two until all the votes have been tallied. But with 90 percent counted already, a clear picture has emerged.
Here are The Electronic Intifada’s five main...
Envisioning a post-colonial Palestine
Josh Ruebner
The Electronic Intifada / March 23, 2021
Jeff Halper, Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism and the Case for One Democratic State; London: Pluto Press, 2021; 256 pages
Early in his tenure as President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State, John Kerry delivered a stark warning to Congress....
Netanyahu is letting Israel’s fascists enter by the front door
James Zogby
The Nation / March 23, 2021
A follower of Meir Kahane may join the government this week. And the Biden administration has had nothing to say about it.
It was April 30, 1971, when I received my first death threat from Meir Kahane’s followers. I remember the date...
Netherlands asks Israel about reported confiscation of Palestinian minister’s travel pass
Reuters / March 23, 2021
THE HAGUE - The Netherlands said on Tuesday it had asked Israel to clarify the status of the Palestinian foreign minister after his travel credentials were revoked following a visit to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
A Palestinian official said on Sunday...
The Nakba of Sheikh Jarrah: How Israel uses ‘the law’ to ethnically cleanse East...
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / March 23, 2021
A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on 19 March during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan, near Nablus, in the northern West Bank. Although tragic, this news reads like a...
