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February 3, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
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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February 2, 2022
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Reuters
Idrees Al-Haddad used to buy seven kilogramme tubs of Yemen's world-famous honey when he went shopping. Today he can only afford one kilogramme. Like many Yemenis suffering the extreme...
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February 1, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
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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January 27, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
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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January 26, 2022
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Reuters
A decision by Sunni Muslim leader, Saad Al-Hariri, to step away from Lebanese politics opens the way for Shia Hezbollah to extend its already deep sway over the country,...
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January 25, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
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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January 20, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
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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January 18, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
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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January 13, 2022
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Reuters
Palestinian Zeyad Abu Odah watched with a smile as his four-storey house, destroyed in an Israeli air strike in last May's fierce Israeli attack on Gaza, was slowly being...
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January 13, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
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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January 11, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
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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January 6, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
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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January 4, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
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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December 30, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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December 28, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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December 23, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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While Egyptians were wowed by pictures of the rare snowfall in Alexandria which was described as "European weather", the Senate in Cairo was discussing the impact of climate change...
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December 21, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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December 16, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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December 14, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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December 10, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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December 8, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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December 2, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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November 30, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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November 25, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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November 23, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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November 18, 2021
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Adnan Hmidan
On 15 November, the Palestinian Authority (PA) closed its official departments, closed schools and universities as is usual every year, to celebrate the Independence of the State of Palestine,...
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November 18, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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November 16, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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November 11, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
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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November 9, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
"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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November 4, 2021
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Reuters
Dotted among wetlands on Tunisia's coast, a patchwork of tiny man-made islands stretches out towards the Mediterranean. Ploughed in neat furrows and shored up by sandbanks inside a lagoon,...