SOURCE: NEW YORK BY: JONAH SHEPP President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an ultimatum to the Palestinian Authority: Return to the negotiating table with Israel, or say good-bye to tens of millions of dollars in American aid to Palestinian refugees. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, following a meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin … Continued
SOURCE: PALESTINE NEWS NETWORK Israeli Jewish settlers overnight spray-painted anti-Palestinian graffiti on walls and torched a Palestinian-owned vehicle after raiding East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa. Settlers reportedly spray-painted “death to the Arabs” and “price tag” graffiti in Hebrew before setting a vehicle on fire. “Price tag” refers to an underground anti-Palestinian Israeli group that … Continued
SOURCE: THE NEWS-HERALD BY: KARIN LAUB AND MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH RAMALLAH, West Bank >> American Kate Hamad doesn’t dare leave Ramallah, fearing trouble, even deportation, if stopped at an Israeli checkpoint on the outskirts of the autonomous Palestinian city in the West Bank. Israel rejected her request for a visa renewal three months ago, she said, … Continued
Former Egyptian president says he rejected PM’s idea outright; remarks follow report on international bid to have Egypt take in Palestinians in 1983 SOURCE: THE TIMES OF ISRAEL BY: SUE SURKES Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had proposed settling Palestinians in the Sinai peninsula as part of … Continued
SOURCE: ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE BY: JAMES J. ZOGBY Imagine that you are a victim of a violent crime or theft but are forbidden from reporting it because Congress has passed a law that not only prohibits you from reporting the crime, but threatens punishment if you dare to do it. This is the situation in … Continued
SOURCE: FORWARD BY: PETER BEINART On Monday on Fox News, President Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly, discussed the Civil War. He called Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee “an honorable man.” He blamed the conflict on “the lack of an ability to compromise.” And he never mentioned the word “slavery.” Commentators pounced. “Compromise on what?” historian Joshua … Continued
By: DOV LIEBER AND VIDEO BY LUKE TRESS Source: The Times of Israel Four years ago, when 29-year-old Alaa Sayej was setting up a brewery in his hometown of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, he encountered a problem he didn’t foresee: Palestinian authorities insisted his logo looked too much like Jesus. Officials from the Palestinian Authority … Continued
By: Dr. Ramzi Baroud Source: Telesurtv There is something immoral in Washington D.C., and its consequences can be dire for many people, particularly for the health of U.S. democracy. The U.S. government is declaring war on the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, BDS, movement. The fight to defeat BDS has been ongoing for several years, … Continued
Their lives are characterised by checkpoints, daily interrogations, night raids and incessant fears of detention [Jaclynn Ashly/Al Jazeera] By: Jaclynn Ashly Source: al Jazeera Occupied East Jerusalem – “It’s hard not to get detained here,” 16-year-old Abdallah Balalawi, an Afro-Palestinian from Chad, told Al Jazeera from his home in the Old City. “I have to … Continued
By: Rayana Khalaf Source: Stepfeed Despite the endless list of crimes Israelis have committed against the Palestinian people, the latter’s humanity remains intact. In a video released by Ramallah News, several Palestinian men are seen risking their lives to save Israeli families from a deadly car accident. “Young Palestinian men saved the children of [Israeli] settlers yesterday in … Continued
By: Ben White Source: Middle East Eye At an April conference in Washington DC held by the Middle East Policy Council, University of Pennsylvania-based political scientist Professor Ian Lustick had some strong criticism for what he described as “the continuous merry-go-round of American-orchestrated negotiations”. After analysing the interests and roles played by, respectively, the Israeli … Continued
By: Mai Abdul Rahman Source: American Palestinian Blog It is impossible to fathom the numbers and ease by which Israel apprehends and injures Palestinians. Between 1967 and 2014, Israel’s soldiers apprehended over 40% of the entire male Palestinian population, and in 2015 alone they injured 11,953 Palestinians- or about 33 Palestinians a day. Without the … Continued
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