Israel normalization: Saudi envoy ‘cancels Al-Aqsa visit’ after backlash over possible deal
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / September 27, 2023
Postponement follows criticism by some Palestinians who view the visit as validating the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem.
Saudi Arabia's non-resident ambassador to Palestine postponed a planned visit to Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
The cancellation came amid criticism made by some...
Palestinian negotiators skeptical over potential Israel-Saudi deal
Bethan McKernan
The Guardian / September 27, 2023
Despite outward positivity, sources say normalization deal unlikely to happen any time soon.
A potential normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia is being treated with skepticism by Palestinian negotiators, despite outwardly positive signals from Palestinian officials, several sources with knowledge of the talks...
Netanyahu used his UN speech to embarrass Saudi leaders and sell illusions of victory
Motasem A. Dalloul
Middle East Monitor / September 27, 2023
In his address to world leaders at the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to embarrass Saudi leaders by revealing plans not yet in the public domain. He disclosed what has been going on behind closed...
Why Gaza needs to talk about suicide
Amjad Ayman Yaghi
The Electronic Intifada / September 27, 2023
I was deeply saddened to learn that my friend Muhammad al-Najjar had taken his own life.
Muhammad – aged just 27 – was a poet.
He often wrote when he was feeling down or stressed.
But sometimes he did not derive any...
Biden rushes Israel into visa waiver program
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / September 27, 2023
The Biden administration in Washington has upgraded relations with Israel by admitting it into the US visa waiver program, despite concerns over its discriminatory treatment of Palestinians with US citizenship and other American travelers.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is suing...
Israel’s acceptance into US visa waiver program met with outrage
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / September 27, 2023
Announcement leads to outrage and skepticism from Palestinian Americans, rights groups and US lawmakers.
The Biden administration has announced that the US has accepted Israel into its visa waiver program (VWP), despite concerns made by rights groups, Palestinian Americans, and lawmakers that Israel is discriminating against different...
Israel says it foiled Iranian plot to target, spy on senior Israeli politicians
Julia Frankel
AP / September 27, 2023
JERUSALEM – Israel arrested five Palestinians in a plot allegedly hatched in Iran to target and spy on senior Israeli politicians, including Israel’s far-right national security minister, the country’s internal security agency said Wednesday.
The Shin Bet security service alleged that an Iranian...
Scenes from an apartheid regime
David. S. D’Amato
CounterPunch / September 28, 2023
On September 13, 1993, the Oslo Accords were signed during a ceremony held at the White House. The agreements promised to usher in a new age of peace and diplomacy between the State of Israel,...
Jewish settlers stole my house – it’s not my fault they’re Jewish
Mohammed al-Kurd
Mondoweiss / September 26, 2023
Palestinians are told the words we use dwarf the decades of violence enacted against us by the self-proclaimed Jewish State. A drone is one thing, but a trope—a trope is unacceptable. No more.
When we were growing up in occupied Jerusalem,...
The curse of the ‘two-state solution’ as a normalization tool
Awad Abdelfattah
Middle East Monitor / September 26, 2023
There is no intention ... to exert pressure on Israel, or to impose sanctions.
The issue of Palestine has turned into a distraction in the hands of the international community and Arab rulers. Whenever the Palestinians rise up, pay...
