SOURCE: REUTERS RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem held a general strike on Monday in support of an Israeli-Arab protest against Israel’s new Nation State Law. A lock is seen on a door of a shop during a general strike in support of an Israeli-Arab protest … Continued
SOURCE: CNN BY: IAN LEE AND IBRAHIM DAHNAM Jerusalem (CNN)Six Palestinians have died after being shot Friday by Israeli soldiers along the fence that separates Gaza and Israel, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Two boys were among those killed in the clashes that marked one of the deadliest days in Gaza for weeks. … Continued
SOURCE: REUTERS BY: DAVID BRUNNSTROM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is cutting more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinians, the State Department said on Friday, amid a deteriorating relationship with the Palestinian leadership. A senior State Department official said without elaborating that the funds, originally planned for programs in the West Bank … Continued
SOURCE: THE INTERCEPT BY: HENRIETTE CHACAR BASHAR MASALHA LAY subdued on a strip of grass along the beachfront promenade of Jaffa, Israel, the ancient Mediterranean port that was swallowed up by the development of Tel Aviv. The injured Masalha was under the gun of an Israeli volunteer police officer. Onlookers cheered the officer on, urging him … Continued
SOURCE: BLOOMBERG BY: FADWA HODALI Top U.S. diplomats heading to the Middle East to discuss their plan to settle the Israel-Palestinian conflict are wasting their time if they disregard previous Arab initiatives to reach peace, according to the spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Peace proposals that ignore “the resolutions of the Arab summits, … Continued
Palestinian school students study inside tents used as a makeshift school in the West Bank village of Zanota. (Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA-EFE) SOURCE: LOS ANGELES TIMES The Gaza Strip, where more than 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers during mass protests in recent weeks, is a dense and dismal sliver of land along the … Continued
SOURCE: JUAN COLE BY: JUAN COLE Social media is being scathing about the diction chosen by the New York Times, CNN and even the Guardian to speak of the some 55 peacefully protesting Palestinians whom Israeli snipers cold-bloodedly shot dead on Monday and the some 2700 whom they wounded, half of those with live fire. … Continued
SOURCE: LOBE LOG BY: MITCHELL PLITNICK “It didn’t have to be this way,” writes Jim Zogby in the new preface to the reissue of his 1981 book, Palestinians, The Invisible Victims: Political Zionism and the Roots of Palestinian Dispossession. There were, a century ago, multiple threads to the Zionist movement. On the one side, for example, there … Continued
SOURCE: ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE BY: JAMES J.ZOGBY This year will mark the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish regions, and the anniversary of the first Middle East War of 1948. In the West, these are commemorated as the events which paved the way for the founding of the … Continued
SOURCE: WAFA BY: KHALIL FAWADLEH JERUSALEM, March 29, 2018 (WAFA) – As the Holy Week during which Christians commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ draws nearer, Palestinians in general and the Christians in particular continue to experience the suffering of Jesus Christ more than 2000 years ago, according to Palestinian Christian activists. … Continued
SOURCE: THE JERUSALEM POST BY: BEN LYNFIELD In the run-up to Friday’s Land Day events marking the anniversary of the 1976 shooting deaths of six Arab protesters against land expropriations, Arab MKs on Wednesday charged that today there is also a severe attack against Arab property. “Sometimes I feel that every day is becoming land day … Continued
By: John Mason/ Arab America Contributing Writer Most Arabs with Israeli citizenship identify as “Palestinian citizen of Israel,” “Palestinian Arab,” or just plain “Palestinian.” A minority, more conservatively, identify as “Israeli Arab” or “Arab Israeli.” The issue of Arab identity, as defined by those Arabs living in Israel, is fraught with politicization. As we … Continued
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