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US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken's recent call to Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, has been largely described in mainstream and Israeli media as based upon the need for...
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According to his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh, Palestinian prisoners are important for Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. As reports circulate in Israeli media about Abbas's request for the colonial-occupation...
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Israel has announced new plans for the village of Khan Al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank, which has been demolished and rebuilt several times, and which attracted international attention...
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The Palestinian Authority continues to attract negative publicity and erode its own standing with the Palestinian people. PA leader Mahmoud Abbas's recent meetings with Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz...
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This week, the Fatah movement confirmed its ongoing dissociation from the people of Palestine and their occupied land when it "unanimously reasserted its confidence in President Mahmoud Abbas" in...
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The administration of US President Joe Biden is employing diplomatic tact which says nothing about its foreign policy in terms of Palestine, other than that it is doing its...
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Pluto Press has published the fourth, and rewritten edition of Paul Roger's "Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century". The first edition was published a little while after...
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A diplomatic protest by European ambassadors against Israel's settlement expansion was perceived as an attack on the state itself by the Deputy Director-General of its Foreign Ministry, Aliza Bin...
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While Palestinians have been calling out Israeli apartheid for years, it was the non-governmental organisation B'Tselem that made the headlines a year ago with its designation of Israel as...
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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is arguably more partial to fairy tales than politics. His latest address to the Fatah Revolutionary Council sums up all that is wrong with...
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To prevent Hamas from politically gaining the upper hand over the Palestinian Authority, Israel heeded the US call to strengthen Mahmoud Abbas's rule by providing concessions for Palestinians. The...
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The UN will be funding an open-ended investigation into Israeli war crimes against Palestinians, departing from this year's aggression against Gaza. For the first time – and this is...
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Last week, the UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk once again exposed the UN's inaction over Israel's international law violations. "On the fifth anniversary of the adoption of Resolution 2334...
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"The occupation has remained unchallenged by an international order that seems willing to legitimise it as long as there is no accepted agreement to end it." Sara Roy's succinct...
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Sometimes, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) finds good reason to issue stark condemnations. Recent comments by Knesset Member Mansour Abbas, who is part of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's...
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In October, US State Department Spokesman Ned Price opposed "the expansion of settlements, which is completely inconsistent with efforts to lower tensions and to ensure calm, and it...
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Now that Israeli media has announced that US President Joe Biden shelved the opening of the US Consulate in Jerusalem for Palestinians, will the Palestinian Authority's Foreign Minister Riyad...
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Israeli media have been pointing out that the Biden administration in Washington is not too bothered about the occupation state's illegal settlement expansion. There is little reason to doubt...
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Israel's allies are fond of adamantly asserting that they will oppose any efforts to delegitimise the settler-colonial state, yet these "efforts", apart from singling out the Boycott, Divestment and...
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Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas's UN General Assembly speech will remain a reference for a while longer. As Israel plans further settlement expansion, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for...
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Israel seems to have acquired another formidably biased ally in the latest US Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Her Trump era predecessor Nikki Haley once said, "If there's...
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Memory trajectories and their loss are well portrayed in Mustafa Kabha and Nahim Karlinsky's book, "The Lost Orchard: The Palestinian-Arab Citrus Industry, 1850-1950" (Syracuse University Press, 2021). In the...
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UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres's simplistic tweet does not suffice for a remembrance day created by the UN, let alone to acknowledge international complicity in the colonisation of Palestine....
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Labelling Israeli settlement products "strengthens extremists, does not help promote peace in the region, and shows Belgium as not contributing to regional stability," according to Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister...
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Yet another attempt at managing symbolic gestures by the Palestinian Authority, this time by Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh. "Whoever cannot punish Israel can at least help Palestine," he stated...
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has provided another reason why Palestinians should not rely on the international community for a political solution to the colonial-occupation of their land by Israel....
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The Palestinian Authority's official news agency, Wafa, ran a news brief yesterday commemorating the anniversary of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's (PLO) "Declaration of Independence". In other words, as Wafa clearly stated, Yasser Arafat accepted the...
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Three weeks ago, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz designated six Palestinian civil society organisations as terror groups, on account of links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of...
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"The Israeli settlements are a presumptive war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and should be treated as such by the international community," UN Special...
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Situating the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) within the colonial and humanitarian context provides a great deal of insight into the...
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"Israel has been defined too many years by the Israel-Arab conflict," Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett complained in a recent interview with The Times. However, even Bennett's intentional...
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From this year onwards, Palestine's national flag will be flown at half-mast on 2 November, as a reminder of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. This is according to a presidential...