Shortly before Mahmoud Abbas took to the UN podium on September 30 — in his first address to the General Assembly as the representative of the “non-member state” of Palestine — his office hinted that the Palestinian Authority leader would drop a “bombshell.” When the...
In his recent meeting with President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he was "committed to the vision of peace for two states for two peoples." That sounds nice. But if he’d been pressed, Netanyahu might have admitted that the two states he...
In Israel’s recent assault on Gaza, 70 percent of those killed were civilians. Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of genocide. And he has company. The National Lawyers Guild, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Jurists...
At Asia Times Online, Ramzy Barzoud writes about the lack of what he calls Arab gallantry. … millions protested for Gaza across the world in a collective global action unprecedented since the US war in Iraq in 2003. South American countries led the way, with some...
The world awaits with bated breath to see if the interim truce negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will lead to a long-term ceasefire. But if U.S. mediation is to be sincere and effective, the United States government needs to take Hamas off its terrorist...
The Obama administration deserves much of the blame for the failure of the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. It had originally been hoped that the United States would present a binding framework along the lines of what moderate Israeli and Palestinian...
With the recent announcement of a Hamas-Fatah reconciliation and the prospect of a unity government between the rival Palestinian factions, the U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have come to a screeching halt. The agreement, which shocked Mideast analysts...
The three-year old Syrian crisis presents dire dilemmas for Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and in refugee camps across the Middle East. Given Syria’s traditional role as a sponsor of Palestinian resistance movements and a home to hundreds...
In 1948, the village of Tantura fell within the borders of the newly created state of Israel. It was a small, seaside village of approximately 1,200 residents, most of them Arab farmers and fishermen. As the war between Israel and its Arab neighbors escalated, Tantura...
Amid ongoing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, leaders on both sides have hardened their stances toward the “right of return” for Arabs who fled the fledgling State of Israel in 1948 and their descendants. In a January 11th address, Palestinian Authority (PA)...