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Items by Ali Badwan
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Fatah’s upcoming conference and the Dahlan phenomenon
The information available from within Fatah suggests that the committees concerned with the conference are preparing to hold the movement’s seventh general conference soon, after it was postponed in September. The conference was postponed for several reasons, including some Arab parties’ advice to the PA and Fatah to wait for…
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Palestine is reaching boiling point
The recent resistance actions in the occupied West Bank prove, once again, that the Palestinians cannot accept the miserable reality in which they live. This reality includes the impasse in the “peace process” which has been moribund for a long time, as well as what has been happening in occupied…
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Our rights will not fall due to limitations nor will they be abolished by unjust rule
On the crumbling walls of the Yarmouk refugee camp, Palestinian refugees, exiles and all others living in the diaspora in Syria are writing about their sentiments and dreams and their hopes for returning to their homeland as May 2015 continues and the commemoration of the Nakba approaches. The Palestinians of…
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Reviving resolution 194
Only a few days after the visit of Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Pierre Krihnpol to Yarmouk Camp to supervise delivery of food and humanitarian aid to the camp’s inhabitants, the situation inside the camp exploded again.…
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The nation-state bill: contexts and goals
The Israeli government recently approved the nation-state bill by a two-thirds majority vote (15 ministers voted in favour, with 7 voting against). Two versions of the bill were presented to the MKs of the right-wing coalition government, one drafted by Ze’ev Elkin of the Likud Party, the other by Ayelet…
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The Egyptian ceasefire initiative and the questions it raises
The diplomacy behind the Gaza ceasefire efforts face some critical moments. The intention appears to be to have the Arab League adopt the Egyptian initiative and force it on the Palestinians; it could even be promoted internationally as a political document in a dysfunctional and troubled negotiating process. How do…
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Waves of attacks against West Bank mosques
In recent months, there have been repeated attacks by Israeli settlers against mosques across the West Bank. They were carried out with the complicity of Israel’s occupation army and encouraged by the leaders of settler groups and political blocs, as well as the rabbinic guides of extremist gangs; gangs who…