Interview: Palestinians hold funeral for victim of land day clashes

I was interviewed by Press TV on Monday 2/4/2018 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mcmQi4EHpro&feature=youtu.be

The Great March of Return: An opportunity for Palestinians to return to Najd or is it Sedrot?

First published by the Middle East Monitor on 30/3/2018 There is nothing like a trip to Beirut and a visit to Palestinian refugee camps to remind visitors of the nub of the Palestinian catastrophe, the Nakba which refugees continue to endure to this day. They were thrown out of their homeland simply because another people wanted to …

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مؤتمر المانحين للأونوروا في روما

مشاركتي في برنامج وراء الحدث على فناة الغد بتاريخ 15 مارس 2018 عن مؤتمر المانحين للأونوروا في روما https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqIppO9sIHg

Interview: Is the US using aid to UNRWA as a method to extort and blackmail?

I appeared on Press TV's the sun will rise with Dr Ghada Karmi. This was broadcast on 2/2/2018 https://youtu.be/s0D9mF_nAQ8

EU is all talk and no action on Israel-Palestine conflict

First published by the Middle East Eye on 6/2/2018 If it is to be taken seriously as a broker for peace, the EU must make disruptive decisions to pressure Israel, just as the US has been doing against Palestinians The past few weeks have been transformational for the prospects, or rather lack thereof, for peace …

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أحداث وأصداء: القدس والاستيطان وحصار ال أونروا … جمعات الغضب

مشاركتي على قناة المغاربية بتاريخ ٢/٢/٢٠١٨ https://youtu.be/Lz1q-GpJ4is

UNRWA’s mandate ends only after return of Palestinian refugees

First published by the Arab Weekly on 28/1/2018 UNRWA’s highly recognisable logo, at least to Palestinians, adorns schools, hospitals and offices run by the organisation wherever the refugees live. Heavy blow. Palestinian refugees collect aid parcels at a UN food distribution centre in Rafah, on January 21.(AFP) The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine …

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Interview: US slammed for withholding UNRWA fund

Interview on Press TV Top Five on 25/1/2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXrNE-g5RB0&feature=youtu.be

What options does Abbas have after that General Assembly vote?

First published by the Middle East Monitor on 27/12/2017 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas makes a speech during extraordinary meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, Turkey on 13 December 2017 [Onur Çoban/Anadolu Agency]   As the dust settles on a significant week at the UN, in which America’s recognition of Jerusalem as …

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What if Wales had been offered to the Jews as a homeland?

First published by the Middle East Eye on 1/11/2017 #Balfour One hundred years ago, the Balfour Declaration backed Palestine as a Jewish homeland. Imagining if history had taken another turn offers a fresh perspective.   On 2 November 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour sent a letter to Lord Walter Rothschild, a prominent zionist, which …

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