SOURCE: THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA BY TAMARA NASSAR Since 2009, at least 53 churches and mosques have been vandalized in present-day Israel and the occupied West Bank. The vast majority of those cases – 45 – have been closed without any charges against perpetrators. In all, there have been just nine indictments and seven convictions, according … Continued
SOURCE: ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE BY JAMES J. ZOGBY Last week Israel announced that the heart of Hebron would henceforth be a separate municipality directly governed by Israel’s Civil Administration. There are about 700 extremist Israeli settlers currently living in a few compounds in the center of the city protected by the Israeli military. While this … Continued
SOURCE: CARNEGIE Many Palestinians and outsiders are skeptical of Palestinian reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas. This arises from several past failures, starting with the Mecca Agreement in February 2007 through the Beach Refugee Camp Agreement in April 2014. There are also a number of unsettled issues between the two parties, which can be seen as landmines facing Palestinian reconciliation. Among … Continued
Exclusive: This progressive millennial wants to replace a two-term Republican SOURCE: INDEPENDENT BY EMILY SHUGERMAN Fayrouz Saad had just started university when two planes struck the World Trade Centre on 11 September, 2001. The child of immigrants and a practising Muslim, Ms Saad grew up in the heavily Arab-American city of Dearborn, Michigan. Up to that point, she … Continued
A resolution passed by the UN Human Rights Council today, mandating a group of international experts to investigate abuses by all parties to the conflict in Yemen, is a momentous breakthrough that will pave the way for justice for countless victims of human rights abuses and grave violations of international law, including war crimes, … Continued
The emergence of an independent Kurdish state will continue to face serious hurdles and obstacles. SOURCE: MIDDLE EAST ONLINE BY EDMUND GHAREEB Sheikh Ubaydullah al-Nahri, a prominent religious and tribal leader who is known as the grandfather of Kurdish nationalism, in 1880 established the Kurdish League, an alliance of 200 tribes, and launched a revolt … Continued
SOURCE: MONDOWEISS September 27, 2017 — Today’s media reports revealed that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights began sending letters two weeks ago to 150 companies in Israel and around the globe, warning them that they could be added to a database of complicit companies doing business in illegal Israeli settlements based in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East … Continued
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT BY JEFFREY HELLER ‘The State of Palestine and the Solomon Islands are now Interpol member countries’ Palestine joined Interpol as a member state on Wednesday, a move opposed by Israel, in a vote at the international police organisation’s general assembly in Beijing, Interpol said. “The State of Palestine and the Solomon Islands are … Continued
SOURCE: FORWARD BY JTA JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinians’ chief peace negotiator, Saeb Erekat, is in Washington, D.C. waiting for a lung transplant. Erekat, 62, who also is secretary-general of the PLO executive committee, has pulmonary fibrosis, a serious lung disease. He requires oxygen and can no longer walk. On Palestinian national television on Thursday … Continued
SOURCE: HAARETZ BY AMIR TIBON In an interview with left-wing website The Intercept, the former presidential candidate said that the U.S. is complicit in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said in an interview published Friday that the United States should “play a much more evenhanded role” in … Continued
By: Michaela Schrum/ Contributing Writer The Syrian refugee crisis has been a topic of interest ever since the initial refugee camps in Turkey were set up in 2011. But international coverage picked up significantly in 2013 with the geographic gains of ISIS in the region, as well as military raids conducted by the Assad regime. … Continued
SOURCE: THE NATIONAL INTEREST BY ZIAD J. ASALI The Arab Spring caused dramatic changes and created new regional realities. Regional and geopolitical realities could not be less conducive to conflict resolution. No party has the credibility, political capital or will to resolve final-status issues. It is time to seek an achievable goal. Absence of negotiated … Continued
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