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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres never misses an opportunity to illustrate how the international community has failed Palestine and its people. On 29 November, the International Day of Solidarity with...

Two statements from the EU within a few days of each other portray the duplicity of its policy towards Palestine. With the two-state compromise always looming in the background...

If there is one thing in which the Palestinian Authority excels, it is theatre of the absurd. Following its announcement that, based on international reassurances, there will be a...

US President-elect Joe Biden has not yet taken office, but Israel's false security narrative is already taking precedence over everything else. Meanwhile, within the ranks of the Palestinian Authority...

There are a couple of meaningful things that the EU should do, without delay: it should drop the pretence that it supports the Palestinian people's right to their own...

The US "deal of the century" may be scrapped when President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January, but its ramifications will not necessarily be anathema to the incoming administration....

The US elections were characterised by the drive to oust Donald Trump from the White House. The Palestinian Authority, crippled as it is with the Trump administration's policies obliterating...

UN intransigence over Israel contrasts with Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk's observations regarding Israel's ongoing settlement expansion, not least because the latter boosts his arguments by providing some colonial context...

The Palestinian Authority's annual outbursts against the Balfour Declaration do not match its politics. The document which normalised the colonisation of Palestine was published on 2 November, 1917. Palestinians...

Calling for the freedom of one Palestinian political prisoner is what Israel expects from the international community. The latest detainee to go on hunger strike protesting against the administrative...

The US-Israeli narrative on Palestine goes a step further than the designated humanitarian label which the international community imposed upon the Palestinian people. As US Ambassador to Israel David...

Haim Bresheeth Žabner's detailed study of the origins and role of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are based on one main observation: Israel is defined by its military. An...

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has left no doubt about the rationale behind the recent normalisation agreements with Arab states, praised by the international community as an opportunity...

The UN's non-binding and generalised Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have provided a diversion in current EU and Palestinian politics. On the brink of experiencing additional dispossession and forced displacement...

The major political concessions to Israel made by US President Donald Trump have influenced both the occupation state and the Palestinian Authority in terms of who each would prefer...

Why does the Palestinian leadership never discuss the relationship between those responsible for the colonisation of Palestine and those who are complicit in its continuation? The PA remains locked...

For decades since Israel established itself in Palestine, there has been no gradual relinquishing of slogans such as its "right to exist". The Zionist colonial narrative, which is not...

For all the rhetoric in which the Palestinian Authority tries to assimilate with the Palestinian people's resilience, there is no reason to think that the Palestinian leadership is attempting...

Since the normalisation agreements of the UAE and Bahrain with Israel were announced, the UN's only response has been to communicate its approval for a new phase which, in...

On the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas had the opportunity to deliver a powerful speech and back it up with...

The Palestinian Authority's Foreign Minister, Riyad Al-Maliki, has said that it will forego its six-month presidency of the Arab League due to the organisation's attitude towards the normalisation of...

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is reeking of fake accomplishments. The "conflict", he has claimed, will be over with the normalisation agreements which Arab countries are seeking with...

In the aftermath of the Arab League's failure to condemn normalisation of relations with Israel, Palestinian unity is once again on the agenda. Whether this is a reaction to...

Reports in the Times of Israel indicate that the annexation of land from the occupied West Bank will be suspended until 2024, confirming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence that...

Should we take the Nobel Peace Prize seriously? This year's nominations include two polar opposites: Cuba's Henry Reeves Brigade, whose medical interventions in the coronavirus context have placed the...

Prior to the UAE-Israeli normalisation agreement, when speculation over annexation of the occupied West Bank was rife, Israel's Agriculture Minister Alon Schuster spoke in favour of "cultivating settlements"; his...

Predictably, Donald Trump's Senior Adviser Jared Kushner exhibited no historical discernment when justifying the normalisation of relations between Israel and the UAE, and how this will affect the Palestinian...

It was not a half-hearted scramble by the EU to get Israel to abide by international law, but rather another manoeuvre biding time to rekindle suspended diplomatic meetings. Following...

Following a brief interval in which all attention was focused on whether Israel would follow through with its annexation plans, world leaders are now back with their usual rhetoric...

It is rare that we come across writings of how people identify with Palestine. Zionist colonisation has created both a displaced population and a contradiction in terms of affinity...

Contrary to what the Palestine Liberation Organisation's Secretary-General Saeb Erekat stated confidently a few months ago, Israel has not stopped demolishing the homes of Palestinian civilians in the occupied...

While Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) normalised relations, based upon a US-brokered deal, the United Nations (UN) in turn normalised this latest diplomatic aggression against Palestine, hoping...