September 29, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
September 24, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
September 22, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
September 17, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
September 15, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
September 10, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
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US September 8, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
September 4, 2020 |
Charline Bou Mansour One month since the Beirut port explosion, people feel ever more hopeless.
September 3, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
September 1, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
August 27, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
August 25, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
August 21, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
August 18, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi It is a pity that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas wasted so much time in declaring that no one has the right "to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people." The...
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US August 13, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi Palestinian refugees are at the core of Palestinian narratives. The international community has, however, classified Palestinian refugees as a humanitarian issue. In between these diverging depictions, the Palestine Liberation...
August 11, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi In perfect synchronisation with Israeli lobbying at an international level, pro-Israel organisations in the US have influenced Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden to remove references to the "occupation"...
August 10, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu I know about pain, and I know when other people are in pain. I have seen it, felt it and lived it many times. Ever since I was born,...
August 6, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi After five years as Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon has been appointed as the Zionist state's Ambassador to Australia, although he still awaits official approval. Do the...
August 4, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi While the Palestine Liberation Organisation has been calling upon the EU to step up from rhetoric to action regarding Israel's forthcoming annexation of occupied West Bank territory, Europe's Foreign...
July 30, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi Like other countries prioritising international consensus and diplomatic relations with Israel simultaneously, Australia is trying to square a colonial circle. Whilst not averse to promoting the two-state paradigm and...
July 28, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi Unsurprisingly, Israel's decision to halt its annexation plans temporarily has been met with a resounding silence from the international community, rather than utilising the interlude to come up with...
July 23, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi The UN is changing its narrative about the coronavirus cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. A few months ago, this cooperation was politicised by the UN within the...
Thai agricultural workers in Israel will be at greater risk of labour abuses under a new partnership between the governments, advocates said, voicing concerns that the United Nations migration agency (IOM) would no longer...
July 21, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi The International Criminal Court (ICC) has adjourned without issuing its ruling on whether Israeli officials will be tried for war crimes against the Palestinian people since 2014, when Gaza...
July 21, 2020 |
Nadine Awadalla Actors at the Sitara theatre had just started their production of "Beauty and the Beast" when the coronavirus pandemic hit Egypt and brought their show to a grinding halt....
July 16, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi In May, Israeli security forces killed Eyad Al-Hallaq, a 32-year-old Palestinian man with special needs, on suspicion that he had a weapon. He was on his way to the...
July 14, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden may try to sustain the fable that he is an alternative to current US President Donald Trump, but for the Palestinians a Biden presidency...
July 9, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi Israel's outgoing Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, is not leaving the arena without his usual, unfounded claim that the international community is subservient to the Palestinian narrative. In...
July 7, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi From seemingly defiant rhetoric to the expected capitulation, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has offered nothing in terms of a unified Palestinian stance against US President Donald Trump's deal...
July 2, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's op-ed for YNet news reflects all that is wrong with speaking out against annexation "as Israel's friend". Israel has diplomatic allegiances and acquaintances; "friendship"...
June 30, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi According to Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz, 1 July is not "a sacred date" to implement the proposed annexation of more Palestinian land. In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
June 25, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi For Palestinians, Israel's military checkpoints are made for its colonial violence and perpetual dehumanisation of the occupied population. In the latest grotesque spectacle of extrajudicial killing, Ahmed Erekat, a...