‘We want to return’: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon dismiss Trump’s plan
Abby Sewell
Middle East Eye / January 30, 2020
For Palestinians in refugee camps there can be no substitute for returning to their homeland.
Amina Ali al-Hajj was a child when her family was expelled from Akka, on Palestine’s northern coast, to Lebanon in 1948.
“I came when I was three years old....
Labour’s fabricated anti-Semitism crisis is being replicated in America
Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor / February 1, 2020
As far as Zionist lobby groups are concerned, the verdict has finally sunk in: they defeated Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. According to one of them at least; the hard-right, anti-Palestinian group misnamed the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” .
Last month one of the...
Russia is using religion to strengthen its influence among Palestinians
Adnan Abu Amer
Middle East Monitor / February 1, 2020
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the city of Bethlehem this week, and not Ramallah. The choice of venue gave the meeting an unmistakably Christian aspect, something that has been used by Russia recently in its...
At least 10 wounded in Israel raid of Al-Aqsa Mosque
Middle East Monitor / February 1, 2020
On Friday at dawn Israeli occupation forces raided Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacked thousands of Palestinian worshippers using rubber bullets, wounding at least ten people, Arab48.com reported.
The Palestinian worshippers chanted: “With soul and blood, we will sacrifice for the sake of Al-Aqsa.”
The Israeli occupation took strict pre-emptive security...
Trump “peace” deal is Israel’s apartheid blueprint
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / February 1,2020
US media have treated Trump’s launch of his Middle East “peace” plan as a sideshow to impeachment hearings in Washington.
But the plan, if imposed on the Palestinians by Israel, which worked with the Trump administration to develop it, would violate the rights of millions...
‘Not an inch’: Palestinians at Al-Aqsa vow to fight Trump’s plan
Arwa Ibrahim
Al-Jazeera / January 31, 2020
Thousands denounce US president's Middle East plan and face-off with Israeli forces during Friday prayers at holy site.
Jerusalem - Tens of thousands of worshippers have descended on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the first Friday prayers after US President Donald Trump announced his Middle East plan to resolve the decades-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Despite...
