Hamas: We ‘must’ form unity government to face deal of the century
Middle East Monitor / March 5, 2020
Head of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, said that Palestinians “must” form a unity government that unites all Palestinian institutions and carry out elections in order to face the US “deal of the century”.
Speaking to the media in the Russian capital Moscow on Sunday, Haniyeh...
The Joint List’s triumph over hate
Samah Salaime
+972 Magazine / March 4, 2020
The Joint List may not save this place, but it showed that it is the only real alternative to the racism and incitement of the Israeli right.
We did not wake up to a new Israel on Tuesday morning, following the third election of...
Abuse, oppression and murder: the PA does Israel’s dirty work in the West Bank
Middle East Monitor / March 5, 2020
Merely two weeks after Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, declared that the PA will suspend all ‘security coordination’ with Israel, Palestinian security forces in the West Bank killed unarmed teenager, Salah Zakareneh.
Zakareneh is not the first and, sadly, will not be the last Palestinian...
BDS Movement marks demise of Israel’s culinary propaganda initiative
/ March 4, 2020
A four-year-long Israeli culinary propaganda drive has apparently come to an end, according to the Palestinian-led BDS Movement, in a statement “celebrat the impact of the four-year BDS campaign and its many milestones”.
The “Round Tables” festival, an international propaganda initiative sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign...
US to punish countries over UN blacklist of firms in settlements
Middle East Monitor / March 4, 2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the State Department will take action against what he called the “harassment” of US businesses blacklisted by the “so-called” UN Human Rights Council.
“Neither the UN Human Rights Council nor the Office of the...
Israel: Joint List receive 87.2% of votes in Arab [Palestinian] cities
Middle East Monitor / March 4, 2020
With just one per cent of ballot papers left to count, the Arab-dominated Joint List is said to have received 87.2 per cent of votes in Arab cities.
Arab48 reported that this was an increase from 80.4 per cent in the previous election.
According to the...
UN appoints new Commissioner-General for Palestine relief agency
Middle East Monitor / March 4, 2020
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed a new Commissioner General for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Quds Net reported on Tuesday.
UN sources said that Filippo Lorenzini will take over from Christian Saunders, the acting Commissioner General since last November.
Saunders stepped...
Stick or twist? Israeli vote throws up bigger questions
Omar Karmi
The Electronic Intifada / March 3, 2020
Another election, another hung parliament and another nail in the coffin of the “peace process.”
So far, so predictable. With 90 percent of ballots counted and final results delayed in part because of coronavirus, Benjamin Netanyahu is set to again lead the largest party in...
