July 18, 2019
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Ramona Wadi Since 1967, 220 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons. The latest victim is Nasser Taqatqa, detained in June from his home in Beit Fajjar, accused of purportedly having...
July 16, 2019
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Ramona Wadi The UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which “seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom” is an ideal dissociated from the realities perpetuated by the international community. Far...
July 15, 2019
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Ramona Wadi Nakba-themed anthologies dispel the concept of linear time and chronology. The brutal and abrupt halting of pre-1948 Palestinian life remains a reference point in Palestinian history, memory and literature,...
July 13, 2019
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Ramona Wadi In 1947, Cuba was one of the few countries opposing the UN Partition Plan, which laid the groundwork for Israel’s colonisation of Palestine. At the time, the Cuban envoy...
July 12, 2019
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Ramona Wadi UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk has suggested that the international community should consider cutting ties with Israel if it goes ahead with further colonial settlement expansion and annexation, according...
July 4, 2019
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Ramona Wadi At Israel Hayom’s Forum on US-Israeli relations, US envoy Jason Greenblatt made sure that references to the Palestinian people and their history were as obscure as possible. Palestinian history...
July 2, 2019
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Ramona Wadi The UN has contributed another contradiction in its assessment of Palestinian prospects following the “Peace to Prosperity” summit. Instead of highlighting how and why the UN has failed Palestine,...
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US June 27, 2019
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Ramona Wadi The “Peace to Prosperity” workshop was all about making a statement on the normalisation of the colonial state of Israel. Forget simply normalising “ties” with Israel; eliminating the settler-colonial...
June 25, 2019
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Ramona Wadi Palestinians have rejected the Manama summit taking place today for several legitimate reasons – all pointing to how the US prelude to the so-called “deal of the century” normalises...
June 20, 2019
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Ramona Wadi The Palestinian Authority’s spin on “legitimate Palestinian endorsement” is equivalent to its fast fading status. Since US President Donald Trump broke away from international consensus on Jerusalem and unilaterally...
June 18, 2019
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Ramona Wadi Nikki Haley has told Israel Hayom that, “I really didn’t know that much about Israel,” an admission which did nothing to hinder her stint as US Ambassador to the...
June 13, 2019
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Ramona Wadi US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman claims that Israel has “the right to retain some, but unlikely all, of the West Bank.” In response, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign...
June 12, 2019
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Ramona Wadi In The Book of Disappearance, Palestinian novelist Ibtisam Azem has crafted a masterpiece which immediately leads the reader to ponder the historical foundations of the 1948 Nakba, as well...
June 11, 2019
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Ramona Wadi The dangerous farce of finding a purported solution for Palestine continues. To detract from issues such as the ongoing forced displacement of Palestinians and the Palestinian right of return,...
June 10, 2019
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Ramona Wadi As the unveiling of US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” remains uncertain and probably postponed, the international community has pitted itself against the proposal and deeming it...
June 6, 2019
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Ramona Wadi US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” and the forthcoming economic summit in Bahrain have reaped a multitude of analysis, not least from US officials themselves. Jared Kushner,...
June 6, 2019
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Ramona Wadi No matter how prevalent refugee stories have become in the media, the dissociation between the terminology and the people keeps growing. Jehan Bseiso and Becky Thompson address this absence...
May 30, 2019
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Ramona Wadi As preparations continue for the “Peace to Prosperity” workshop to be held in the capital of Bahrain next month, opposition to US-Israeli scheming grows. The Confederation of Palestinian Communities...
May 28, 2019
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Ramona Wadi Palestinian school textbooks are once again under public scrutiny, this time after a report published by Israel’s Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) claimed...
May 23, 2019
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Ramona Wadi Ever since the US ostracised the Palestinian Authority, there has been a change in rhetoric that attempts to equate the struggles it is facing with those of the Palestinian...
May 23, 2019
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Ramona Wadi The international community, through the Oslo Accords, has created an intricate web of terminology that points towards a permanently stalled state-building process. In their book, The Palestinian Authority in...
May 21, 2019
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Ramona Wadi From the details which have emerged so far about the Bahrain economic summit, the US has made clear that the first phase of its so-called “deal of the century”...
May 16, 2019
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Ramona Wadi While Palestinians commemorated their ongoing Nakba and perpetual trauma inflicted by Zionist settler-colonialism, the US and Israel lauded each other on the 1st anniversary of Donald Trump’s unilateral recognition...
May 14, 2019
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Ramona Wadi Only a few days before the Palestinian commemoration of the 1948 Nakba, in which the indigenous people of Palestine were massacred, displaced and ethnically cleansed to pave the way...
May 9, 2019
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Ramona Wadi The EU must clearly and unequivocally state that it has abandoned the Palestinian people to complete political isolation. The recent Israeli air strikes on Gaza have not only revealed...
Published in:
Asia & Americas,
Blog,
Blogs - Politics,
EU,
International Organisations,
Israel,
Middle East,
Opinion,
Palestine,
UN,
US May 8, 2019
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Ramona Wadi An unfulfilled desire has no sanctuary other than remembrance. Radwa Ashour’s novel, The Woman from Tantoura (Hoopoe Fiction, 2019), explores the ramifications of memory and how its story is...
May 7, 2019
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Ramona Wadi Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip has become a normalised regular occurrence. Since Operation Protective Edge in 2014, the Israeli government has warned continuously of another large-scale assault to...
May 2, 2019
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Ramona Wadi As the Palestinian Authority’s financial deficit continues to get worse, the European Union has announced that it will be assisting humanitarian endeavours for Palestinians with an additional $24.7 million...
April 30, 2019
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Ramona Wadi The UN must surely, once and for all, hold itself accountable for its role in facilitating Israel’s colonisation and the resulting swift deterioration of Palestinian rights. Speaking about how...
April 26, 2019
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Ramona Wadi The excessive focus on US President Donald Trump’s forthcoming “deal of the century” is already marginalising the Palestinians. Pitting the US plan against the two-state compromise has created another...
April 23, 2019
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Ramona Wadi The Arab League has pledged $100 million per month as aid to the Palestinian Authority in its ongoing financial crisis, as long as there is no departure from the...
April 18, 2019
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Ramona Wadi The new Palestinian Authority government has been welcomed by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov, who reiterated the rhetoric reserved for occasions on...
Since 1967, 220 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons. The latest victim is Nasser Taqatqa, detained in June from his home in Beit Fajjar, accused of purportedly having...
The UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which “seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom” is an ideal dissociated from the realities perpetuated by the international community. Far...
Nakba-themed anthologies dispel the concept of linear time and chronology. The brutal and abrupt halting of pre-1948 Palestinian life remains a reference point in Palestinian history, memory and literature,...
In 1947, Cuba was one of the few countries opposing the UN Partition Plan, which laid the groundwork for Israel’s colonisation of Palestine. At the time, the Cuban envoy...![Michael Lynk, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied Michael Lynk [Alhadath24/Facebook]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017_3_21-Michael-Lynk.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk has suggested that the international community should consider cutting ties with Israel if it goes ahead with further colonial settlement expansion and annexation, according...![U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu (R) show members of the media the proclamation Trump signed on recognising Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights after their meeting outside the West Wing of the White House 25 March 2019 in Washington, DC. [Alex Wong/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/GettyImages-1138217403-e1553952812209.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
At Israel Hayom’s Forum on US-Israeli relations, US envoy Jason Greenblatt made sure that references to the Palestinian people and their history were as obscure as possible. Palestinian history...![Palestinians hold banners as they gather to protest against a conference, which is the workshop, scheduled for June 25 and 26, in Bahrain's capital Manama, related with a “Deal of the Century” plan in Ramallah, West Bank on 15 June 2019. [Issam Rimawi - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190615_2_36908631_45327517-e1561366057994.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The UN has contributed another contradiction in its assessment of Palestinian prospects following the “Peace to Prosperity” summit. Instead of highlighting how and why the UN has failed Palestine,...
The “Peace to Prosperity” workshop was all about making a statement on the normalisation of the colonial state of Israel. Forget simply normalising “ties” with Israel; eliminating the settler-colonial...![Protesters ‘united against deal of the century’ in Gaza on 10 May 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/8-2-e1558626263388.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Palestinians have rejected the Manama summit taking place today for several legitimate reasons – all pointing to how the US prelude to the so-called “deal of the century” normalises...![Palestinians take part in a protest marking the annual Quds Day in Gaza on 23 June 2017 [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Quds-Day230617_ASH_00-13.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Palestinian Authority’s spin on “legitimate Palestinian endorsement” is equivalent to its fast fading status. Since US President Donald Trump broke away from international consensus on Jerusalem and unilaterally...![US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley addresses the UNSC in New York, US on 20 September 2018 [Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Nikki-20180920_2_32471672_37402675.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Nikki Haley has told Israel Hayom that, “I really didn’t know that much about Israel,” an admission which did nothing to hinder her stint as US Ambassador to the...![US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) meets with US ambassador to Israel David Friedman (C) upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport, near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on 20 March, 2019 [JIM YOUNG/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/GettyImages-1131687317.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman claims that Israel has “the right to retain some, but unlikely all, of the West Bank.” In response, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign...
In The Book of Disappearance, Palestinian novelist Ibtisam Azem has crafted a masterpiece which immediately leads the reader to ponder the historical foundations of the 1948 Nakba, as well...![Jordan's muslim brotherhood members pray in the street as they are banned from executing a protest at the American embassy ahead of the visit of US President's adviser Jared Kushner, for the century deal and Bahrain peace workshop, near the American embassy on 28 May 2019 in Amman, Jordan. [Jordan Pix/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GettyImages-1152395632.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The dangerous farce of finding a purported solution for Palestine continues. To detract from issues such as the ongoing forced displacement of Palestinians and the Palestinian right of return,...![Palestinians stage a protest against the 'Deal of the Century', planned by US President Donald Trump to solve the conflict between Palestine and Israel, in Ramallah, West Bank on 2 July 2018 [Shadi Hatem/Apaimages]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2018_7-2-Deal-of-the-Century020718_SHH_00-2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
As the unveiling of US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” remains uncertain and probably postponed, the international community has pitted itself against the proposal and deeming it...![Palestinian protestors burn a poster with a picture of US President Donald Trump during a demonstration against the deal of century, in the West Bank city of Hebron, 22 February 2019 [Wisam Hashlamoun/Apa Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019_2-22-demonstration-against-the-deal-of-century220219_WIH_00-4.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” and the forthcoming economic summit in Bahrain have reaped a multitude of analysis, not least from US officials themselves. Jared Kushner,...
No matter how prevalent refugee stories have become in the media, the dissociation between the terminology and the people keeps growing. Jehan Bseiso and Becky Thompson address this absence...
As preparations continue for the “Peace to Prosperity” workshop to be held in the capital of Bahrain next month, opposition to US-Israeli scheming grows. The Confederation of Palestinian Communities...![Israeli security forces attack Palestinians after Muslim worshippers perform Friday prayer, outside Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound 20 July 2017 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/21-Israeli-security-forces-attack-Palestinians-on-Friday-Prayer-in-front-of-Al-Aqsa20170721_2_24869505_24328734.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Palestinian school textbooks are once again under public scrutiny, this time after a report published by Israel’s Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) claimed...![Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip protested against President Mahmoud Abbas' policies against the besieged enclave on 2 May 2017 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017_5_2-Thousands-of-Palestinians-in-the-Gaza-Strip-protested-against-President-Mahmoud-Abbas-policies-against-the-besieged-enclave2-27.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Ever since the US ostracised the Palestinian Authority, there has been a change in rhetoric that attempts to equate the struggles it is facing with those of the Palestinian...
The international community, through the Oslo Accords, has created an intricate web of terminology that points towards a permanently stalled state-building process. In their book, The Palestinian Authority in...![Palestinians stage a protest against the 'Deal of the Century', planned by US President Donald Trump to solve the conflict between Palestine and Israel, in Ramallah, West Bank on 2 July 2018 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018_7-2-Protest-agains-Deal-of-the-Century-in-Ramallah20180702_2_31244661_35265976.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
From the details which have emerged so far about the Bahrain economic summit, the US has made clear that the first phase of its so-called “deal of the century”...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C), US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (R) visit the Western Wall Tunnels in Jerusalem's Old City on 21 March, 2019 [JIM YOUNG/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/GettyImages-1131842031.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
While Palestinians commemorated their ongoing Nakba and perpetual trauma inflicted by Zionist settler-colonialism, the US and Israel lauded each other on the 1st anniversary of Donald Trump’s unilateral recognition...![Palestinian protesters gather during clashes with Israeli security froces in a tent city protest where Palestinians demand the right to return to their homeland, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the "Nakba", and against U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem at Israel-Gaza border at the Israel-Gaza border, in al-Bureij in the center of Gaza Strip on 14 May, 2018 [Mahmoud Khattab/Apaimages]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/140518_MKH_00-3.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Only a few days before the Palestinian commemoration of the 1948 Nakba, in which the indigenous people of Palestine were massacred, displaced and ethnically cleansed to pave the way...![Israeli occupation forces targeted a number of site in the Gaza Strip on 4 May 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/651A8356.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The EU must clearly and unequivocally state that it has abandoned the Palestinian people to complete political isolation. The recent Israeli air strikes on Gaza have not only revealed...
An unfulfilled desire has no sanctuary other than remembrance. Radwa Ashour’s novel, The Woman from Tantoura (Hoopoe Fiction, 2019), explores the ramifications of memory and how its story is...![Image of the United Nations (UN) Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov on 17 February 2015 [A Paranoid Optimist/Flickr]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2015_2_17-Nickolay-Mladenov16461411089_c0cd215502_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip has become a normalised regular occurrence. Since Operation Protective Edge in 2014, the Israeli government has warned continuously of another large-scale assault to...![High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini in Brussels, Belgium on 14 March 2019 [Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190314_2_35424429_42577575.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
As the Palestinian Authority’s financial deficit continues to get worse, the European Union has announced that it will be assisting humanitarian endeavours for Palestinians with an additional $24.7 million...
The UN must surely, once and for all, hold itself accountable for its role in facilitating Israel’s colonisation and the resulting swift deterioration of Palestinian rights. Speaking about how...![Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) and US President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on 20 September, 2017, in New York [Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GettyImages-850075044.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The excessive focus on US President Donald Trump’s forthcoming “deal of the century” is already marginalising the Palestinians. Pitting the US plan against the two-state compromise has created another...![Palestine's Ambassador and Permanent Representative at the Arab League hold a joint press conference following Arab League Council's extraordinary meeting on Jerusalem in Cairo, Egypt on 16 May, 2018 [Stringer/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20180516_2_30411641_33805544.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Arab League has pledged $100 million per month as aid to the Palestinian Authority in its ongoing financial crisis, as long as there is no departure from the...![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (C) holds the first cabinet meeting with the newly announced government at the Presidential Office in Ramallah, West Bank on 13 April 2019. [Thaer Ghanaim / Palestinian Presidency / Handout - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190413_2_35975144_43546938-e1555317675383.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The new Palestinian Authority government has been welcomed by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov, who reiterated the rhetoric reserved for occasions on...