First published by TRT World on 2/6/2019 Solidarity will not bring justice for the Palestinians at a time when they have been abandoned by their neighbours. General view of Arab leaders during the14th Islamic summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia June 1, 2019. ( Reuters ) Islam’s holiest city …
Continue reading Three Mecca summits show support for Palestine but no action
Fir1st published by TRT World on 16/5/2019 As they commemorate the Nakba, or 'catastrophe', Palestinians see the UNRWA as a vital ingredient in the struggle for freedom, justice and equality. Today, May 15, the Palestinian people are once again commemorating the Nakba, or ‘catastrophe’, which marked their dispossession and expulsion for the Zionist movement to fulfil …
Continue reading Seven decades after the Nakba the UNRWA is more vital than ever before
First published by TRT World on 6/5/2019 14-month old Seba Abu Arar killed in the recent Israeli attack on Gaza on her way to burial. Israel can operate with impunity in Gaza and its allies will file it under its 'right to defend' itself without anyone extending those same rights to Palestinians. Gaza is once …
Continue reading Gaza violence shows Palestinian lives matter less than Israeli lives
First published by TRT World on 8/4/2019 Palestinians are hardly a footnote in the Israeli election and those who get to vote are forced to make a choice between soft apartheid and a hard one. As Israelis go to the polls to elect their next parliamentarians and prime minister, spare a thought for the occupied …
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First published by TRT World on 29/3/2019 For a whole year scores of Palestinians have been killed and wounded for simply demanding their right to return home. For the Palestinians, the 30th of March traditionally marks 'land day', when they commemorate Israel’s killing of six Palestinians in 1976 who were protesting the Israeli government’s announcement …
Continue reading The Great March of Return is the definitive guide to Israeli injustice
ترجمة مقالي ل تي ار تي العالم بتاريخ 17.2.2019 ترجمة وكالة وطن الإخبارية باريخ 18.2.2019 كتب كامل حواش- ترجمة خاصة وطن - الاء راضي: تغيرت الصفائح التكتونية أي المواقف الأصلية للشرق الأوسط في قمة وارسو ويمكن الإحساس بالهزات الارتدادية الناتجة عن تغير هذه المواقف لعقود قادمة. استدعت الإدارة الأمريكية ممثلين عن 60 ولاية إلى العاصمة البولندية لحضور …
Continue reading الدول العربية تتوّج نتنياهو ملكاً للشرق الأوسط في قمة وارسو
First published by TRT World on 17/2/2019 The Middle East’s tectonic plates shifted in Warsaw and the aftershocks could be felt for decades to come. The American Administration summoned representatives of 60 states to the Polish capital of Warsaw dubbed strangely ‘Ministerial to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East’. However, …
Continue reading In Warsaw Arab nations crowned Netanyahu as the king of the Middle East
First published by TRT World on 29/1/2019 Malaysia has been stripped of holding a sporting event because it would not allow Israel to participate in the competition. Is the decision fair - and is Israel held to the same standard? The World Para-Swimming Championships were due to open in Malaysia on the 29th of July. …
Continue reading Palestinians aren’t spared the horrors of occupation for the sake of sport
First published by TRT World on 19/12/2018 Illegal settlement building is increasingly becoming a favoured collective punishment against Palestinians. If only Israel was as creative in seeking peace with the Palestinians as it is in finding different ways to punish them. A policy of dehumanisation that aims to present Palestinians to the world as sub-human, …
Continue reading How Israel uses attacks as an excuse to expand illegal settlements
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 …
Continue reading Gaza strikes: Israeli impunity grows as Arab states normalise ties
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