Palestine

Today around 300,000 Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon, yet only 2% of them have work permits. Lebanese law bans Palestinians from working in most professions; those that do work...

The British government has granted temporary diplomatic immunity to Israel's Justice Minister, Tzipi Livni during her visit to London this week, which serves to protect her from an arrest...

"In the film I will document a legal system; a system which organizes the rule of law in the territories we conquered in 1967. This is a unique system....

On the occasion of their party Spring Conference taking place this weekend, the Liberal Democratic Friends of Palestine (LDFP) have isued a new position paper on Palestine. MEMO has...

We, citizens of the world, celebrating the human pursuit of freedom and independence, adhering fully to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, rejecting the ideology and practice of colonization...

By Khalid Meshaal This paper was originally presented by Mr Khalid Meshaal, the Chief of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) at a conference convened by...

HE Jacob ZumaPresident of the Republic of South AfricaCape TownSouth Africa Cape Town, 7 November 2011 Dear Mister President, On 5-6 November 2011 we held our third session in...

Arab Delegation Members of the delegation confirmed their frank and forthright demand for the immediate release of Sheikh Raed Salah. They informed Mr Gould that Salah's arrest was tantamount...

26 former European leaders, including former Presidents, Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and European Commissioners, have written a letter to EU President Van Rompuy and High Representative Catherine Ashton, calling...

The national decision serving as a basis for those measures having been repealed, the Council was no longer able to maintain financial sanctions against Al-Aqsa In order to implement...

Introduction Failed bilateral talks over these past 16 years have shown that a Middle East peace accord can never be reached by the parties themselves. Israeli governments believe they...

By John McHugoUJ is the legal power which allows suspected perpetrators of crimes such as war crimes, torture and genocide to be prosecuted in the national courts of countries...

John Duggard, Chair of Independent Fact-Finding Committee on Gaza; and Former Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council on Human Rights in Palestine. It is clear that serious crimes...

The pro-Israel lobby in Britain: FULL TEXTDispatches investigates the pro-Israel lobby in Britain which is working in support of the interests of the State of Israel. We have obtained...

The Haaretz Newspaper has obtained a copy of the draft resolution that the Palestinian Authority will present to the United Nations, calling for condemnation of Israel over its actions...

The Syrian community of Majdal Shams – one of 4 Syrian Druze villages in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights – take delight in storytelling. Huddled around fires in their...

Senior member of Hamas's political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouk recognised on Tuesday that there are differences between his movement and Fatah, but he stressed the importance of unity and reaching...

In 1993, the Oslo accords launched a transitional process that was supposed to end in May 1999 with a Palestinian state in all of the West Bank, including Jerusalem,...

Al-shabaka policy brief Overview U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's highly publicized efforts to foster negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Oslo...

Introduction According to international law and even the Israeli legal system, no one should be detained for their political beliefs. However, this is not the reality in the occupied...

Introduction The idea of a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation, which first emerged four decades ago, has resurfaced in recent months and is creating something of a controversy. The origins of the...

,p>Prior to Operation Pillar of Defence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party Likud had been declining in popularity. Netanyahu was also threatened by an opposition alliance of the former...

The EU-Israel Association Agreement is the legal framework upon which relations between Israel and the European Union are based. It was signed in 1995 and came into effect in...

Introduction The status of prisoners of war is a very complicated issue in international humanitarian law. Many people think – wrongly – that all of the Palestinian prisoners in...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has threatened to halt security cooperation with Israel should the latter not stop its settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories. This is the first...

The heads of Jerusalem churches expressed on Tuesday their condemnation of Israeli attempts to discriminate against Palestinian Muslims and Christians, Arabs 48 news website reported. The church leaders also...

In recent years, Israel has stepped up its campaign to Judaise the holy city of Jerusalem, attempting to create new facts on the ground in an effort to deny...

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas considered the Israeli bill that seeks to bar the issuance of amnesty for Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences in Israeli jails, as an attempt...

Zionist political thought continues to propose projects based on the eradication of the Palestinians as a people or, at the very least, their marginalisation inside the state of Israel....

Israel's occupation of Jerusalem has for all intents and purposes strangled its Arab population. The restrictive policies enforced in; construction, planning, land appropriation, investment in infrastructure and services are...

Introduction – Who, or what, is Shin Bet? Known at different times by various names (the General Security Service , the Israeli Security Agency , Shabak], Shin Bet is...

A Caabu Briefing Paper 1. Introduction 1.1 The Oslo Accords which were intended to lead to peace between Israelis and Palestinians were signed as long ago as 1993. Yet...