SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES BY: DAVID M. HALBFINGER AND BEN HUBBARD In a watershed op-ed article, an influential Arab diplomat wrote, in Hebrew, that normalization with Israel would not survive a unilateral land grab at the Palestinians’ expense. The West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Efraim on the slopes of the Jordan Valley in February.Credit…Ariel … Continued
SOURCE: THE JORDAN TIMES BY: JAMES J. ZOGBY With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising to annex portions of the West Bank, liberal critics here in the US and across Europe are in a tizzy. They have been quick to point fingers blaming this crisis on Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, since Trump’s “Deal … Continued
SOURCE: TIME BY: NOOR IBRAHIM This summer, Dylan Jones, a 48-year-old woodworker, walked into an art gallery in his hometown of Caersws, Wales, and found himself drawn to a collection of photographs depicting the harvesting of olives in a small village in the West Bank. He observed grey skies and golden landscapes, men and women … Continued
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Qatar has said it is sending $480m (£370m) to Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip after a ceasefire deal ended the deadliest fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants since 2014. Qatar’s foreign ministry said $300m would go towards supporting health and education programmes of the Palestinian … Continued
SOURCE: THE ART NEWSPAPER BY: AIMEE DAWSON Amid escalating violence between Palestinians and Israelis in Gaza in May, experts declared that the possibility of peace has never been more distant. As Israel marked its 70th anniversary and the new US embassy in contested Jerusalem was unveiled, at least 60 Palestinian protesters were killed at the … Continued
SOURCE: MA’AN NEWS AGENCY BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — United States Senator Kamala Harris visited Al-Quds University in the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem, where she sat down with a group of female students who shared their experiences of living in occupied Palestinian territory. According to a press release from the university, after briefing the … Continued
The house is located close to the Israel-Palestine border wall. Photo: Kickstarter. By: Henri Neuendorf Source: Artnet News The Palestinian artist Emily Jacir has launched a crowdfunding campaign to transform her family’s historic 19th-century home in the West Bank into an independent exhibition space and community art center. The space will focus on visual … Continued
US President Donald Trump at the Western Wall, in occupied East Jerusalem, 22 May. It is one of several sites in the occupied West Bank that media outlets misrepresented as being in Israel. Dan HansenWhite House Photo By: Michael F. Brown Source: The Electronic Intifada A New York Times graphic of 19 May, explaining the itinerary … Continued
Ibrahim Habash walks with one of the many Palestinian recreational hiking groups that have sprung up largely in the last decade. The Israeli trails network, with its blue and white markings, extends into the West Bank, and Israeli and Palestinian hikers often cross paths on the same trails. (Daniel Estrin/NPR) By: Daniel Estrin Source: NPR The … Continued
By Sarah Champion The Huffington Post It’s cold. Really bitterly cold. The wind is whipping across the open countryside and the military compound I’m standing in is the first thing which breaks its path. It is the first week of January and I’m in Palestine, queuing to get inside so that I can see for … Continued
By Johnathan Lis Haaretz The Knesset Interior Committee on Wednesday initially approved a bill that would bar the issuing of entry visas or residency permits in Israel to foreign citizens who call for a boycott of Israel or the settlements. Entry would be barred in two cases, the first being if the foreign citizen knowingly … Continued
By Zena Tahhan Al Jazeera Israeli forces have killed more Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem in 2016 than any other year in the last decade, rights group Defence for Children International (DCI) has said. The organisation’s chapter in the occupied Palestinian territories recorded the killings of 32 Palestinian children (under 18), … Continued
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