First published by the Middle East Monitor on 12/2/2016 It’s time for the EU to punch its weight in the drive for peace in the Holy Land Image from the Middle East Monitor The European Union is a powerful bloc. Around 500 million people live within its 28 member states. Their combined Gross Domestic …
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The parallel policies that won't bring peace to historic Palestine First published in Middle East Eye on Sunday 7 February 2016 Once again another initiative to bring peace to historic Palestine is in the making. The last one by US Secretary of State John Kerry in 2013-14 ended in tatters and was soon followed with …
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First published in the Middle East Monitor Saturday, 23 January 2016 11:09 Oslo’s alphabet language of colonisation By Kamel HAWWASH The iconic handshake between Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, and PA president Yasser ArafatThe iconic handshake between Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, and PA president Yasser Arafat The first three letters of the alphabet A, …
The Middle East Monitor publiched my article on 15/1/2016 Abbas commits to more negotiations while violence escalates Image from the Middle East Monitor In his first speech of 2016, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas reviewed the situation facing the Palestinians and set out his approach for the forthcoming year. He started with the …
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UK Parliament debates Palestinian child prisoners Labour MP Sarah Champion secured a debate in Parliament on 6/1/2016 on Palestinian child prisoners. This was held in West Minister Hall, not in the main chamber and attracted around 50 MPs. Sarah had recently visited Palestine with CAABU and MAP and gave an excellent, authoritive and in places …
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From Ramallah News The PA's minister of education, Sabri Saidam honoured three Palestinian teachers for their recognition among the World's top fifty teachers. Fida' Za'tar from Nablus, Hanan Alhurub fromRamallah and Jawdat Jamil from Jerusalem's suburbs received the 'Nobel award for education' or the Global teacher award from the Varkey GEMS Foundation. The minister …
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The Middle East Monitor has published this article US presidential candidates threaten a just peace in historic Palestine 11/12/2015 Image from Middle East Monitor In recent weeks the race for the White House and the top job of president of the United States of America has been dominated by Republican hopeful Donald Trump. His …
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The Middle East Monitor published this article, my first for the website. Friday 30 October 2015 Palestinians have a problem with occupiers not Jews One extremely disturbing feature of the recent clashes between Palestinians and Israelis has been what seems a deliberate framing by Israel of the reasons behind the knife attacks as simply hatred …
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I reproduce below the press release from the Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group PRESS RELEASE FROMBRITAIN-PALESTINE APPG, 19 October 2015 For immediate release THE ESCALATING VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL-PALESTINE IS ROOTED IN FAILURE TO END THE OCCUPATION All murders and other attacks on civilians are unacceptable, whoever commits them and whoever are the victims. …
Screenshot from Middle East Eye video The past few days have seen an escalation of violence by Israeli occupation forces that could have ignited a third intifada. Dozens of Palestinians have been attacked, injured and arrested by Israeli forces in and around Alaqsa mosque in Jerusalem. This Jerusalem uprising has been to protect Alaqsa …
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