From Dr Salman Abu Sitta This shows that refugees continued to demand return to their homes. Israel has denied them this legal and moral right. It is time they went home.
Category: Apartheid
Israel’s actions speak louder than its talk of regional peace
First published by the Arab Weekly on 16/12/2018 It is clear that Israel is unwilling to meet the legitimate demands of the Palestinians for peace or those of the wider Arab world. Louder than words. Israeli police scuffle with activists in the West Bank Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar which is slated for demolition, October …
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Mientras los Estados árabes normalizan su relación con Israel, los votantes británicos presionan a los parlamentarios en favor de Palestina
First published in Spanish by the Middle East Monitor on 4/12/2018 Noviembre ha sido un mes extraordinario para la normalización entre los Estados árabes e Israel. Podrías pensar que Israel ha resuelto sus disputas con sus vecinos – quizá aceptando e implementando la iniciativa de paz árabe, por ejemplo, – y que un Estado palestino …
Criticise Israel and you immediately trigger its army of outraged partisans
First published by the Middle East Eye on 12/12/2018 #HumanRights An army of social media trolls are at the ready to denounce legitimate criticism of Israel’s occupation and settlement enterprise Israel was created through violence and terror, which it continues to heap on Palestinians to this day, as it works to fulfill the dream of …
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If there’s no occupation, then where are equal rights?
First published by the New Arab on 26/11/2018 Israel has had a 'normalisation' bonanza with a number of Arab Gulf countries in recent weeks without having to give anything in return. What had previously been relations under the table are now out in the open. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu breached the decades-long taboo of …
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Gaza strikes: Israeli impunity grows as Arab states normalise ties
First published by TRT World on 13/11/2018 The botched Israeli operation, and airstrikes, in Gaza, comes while a truce is under discussion with Hamas. Is bombing the Palestinians into submission, Benjamin Netanyahu's idea of a negotiation? Israel is quite literally playing with fire. It launched a botched operation 3km into the Gaza strip, whose objectives …
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Israel has done nothing to deserve normalisation with the Arab world
First published by the Middle East Eye on 12/11/2018 Growing normalisation has left Palestinians struggling to understand what happened to the Arab world’s support for the Palestinian cause Our Arab brothers - as none of our leaders are women - have stabbed us in the front and the back, abandoning us politically while embracing …
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Supporting Palestine can now get you denied entry to the US
First published by the Middle East Eye on 17/10/2018 I have been a severe critic of the current US administration's policy towards the Palestinians. But does this make me a possible security threat to the US? Of course not In April 2017, while travelling for a routine family holiday to Jerusalem, I was denied entryupon arrival at …
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With no meaningful international plan, Khan Al-Ahmar needs a popular uprising to save it
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 11/10/2018 Israeli occupation forces storm the Bedouin village of Khan Al-Ahmar in the West Bank on 14 September 2018 [İssam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency] The Palestinian Bedouin residents of Khan Al-Ahmar wake up every morning relieved that the Israeli occupation’s bulldozers did not arrive overnight to destroy their homes …
Debate on British Palestinians’ letter to the Guardian on their right to freedom of speech
I joined a debate on RT UK on this letter in the Guardian which I signed on 1/8/2018 https://youtu.be/62mTTKawsAI
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