Obama cannot continue publicly regretting the consequences to Palestinians of occupation while passing the ammunition to Israel.
Obama cannot continue publicly regretting the consequences to Palestinians of occupation while passing the ammunition to Israel.
Palestinians need to mobilize around a liberation strategy that appeals to the widest possible base.
During the upheavals sweeping the Arab world, a common refrain among hawkish supporters of Israel has been that the Arab street is indifferent to the plight of the Palestinians, and thus the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not at the heart of Middle East troubles. I
During the upheavals sweeping the Arab world, a common refrain among hawkish supporters of Israel has been that the Arab street is indifferent to the plight of the Palestinians, and thus the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not at the heart of Middle East troubles.
Contrary to popular opinion, there actually is a pro-Palestinian undercurrent to the recent Middle-Eastern protests.
By half-heartedly retracting his report, Richard Goldstone not only won no friends in Israel, but sabotaged his human-rights reputation.
The United States is applying pressure regarding the settlements — not on Israel, but on Palestine to withdraw the Security Council resolution calling them illegal.
The U.S. is supporting a U.N. Security Council statement condemning Israeli settlements.
Whether or not Hamas is strapped for cash by restrictions on its comings and goings from Gaza, it’s squeezing its own people.
The exposure by Al Jazeera and London’s Guardian newspaper of a huge cache of documents detailing Palestinian accounts of a decade of peace negotiations with Israel could deal a lethal blow to U.S. efforts to get a credible process back on track, according to experts here.