Family Unification Law: How an Israeli Law Divides Palestinian Families
The family unification ban includes Palestinians who returned to Palestine on “tourist visas” and “overstayed.
A Shared Struggle: How A Book Brought Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers Together
In their valuable introductions, the Palestinian-Irish academic Asad Abu Sharkh and former Irish political prisoner Danny Morison point out many of them, including the settler-colonial Plantation of Ulster and the role of Herbert Samuel, the British Home Secretary who oversaw the internment of thousands of Irish revolutionaries during the Easter Uprising of 1916 and who later advocated for the Balfour Declaration and became the High Commissioner to Palestine, where he helped repress Palestinian resistance to British colonialism.
On Afghanistan and Legitimate Resistance: Should Hamas, Hezbollah Learn from the Taliban?
However, unlike al-Qaeda and ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Taliban are not trans-border militant groups fighting a global agenda, but national liberation movements which, despite their emphasis on religious discourses, are political actors with specific political objectives confined largely within the borders of their own countries - Palestine, Lebanon and Afghanistan, respectively.
Realpolitik vs. Idealpolitik: Turkey-Gulf Re-friending after a Decade-Long Rivalry
Thus, domestic factors did not play a large role in shaping the foreign policy decisions of Turkey and the GCC states when the nature of the regional developments, such as in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine, were more related to the balance of power in the Middle East.
Liberation Legitimacy: How Far Does It Count?
This includes Algeria, Palestine, Angola, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Vietnam, among others.
Notturno: A Dark Purgatorial World in the Fertile Crescent
One of the actors shouts ‘no to America… no to Iran’ as another video montage throws a blitz of imagery that reveals colonial roots to Iraqi civil war alongside a ‘Palestine is Lost’ mantra; Notturno seems about to end with an Arabic song of lament and the close-up of the actors but instead the film turns back to imagery of the everyday (one of the earlier characters, Ali and his silent work assisting bird hunters).
Watching Their Land Shrinking and Their Freedoms Restricted, Palestinians Take Initiative
ost young Palestinians were born after the signing between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel of the Oslo Accords in the White House in 1993.
Israeli Jewish Zionist Patriotism from a Palestinian-Jewish Perspective
, born in Jerusalem before Israel’s creation, founded Physicians for Human Rights-Israel 33 years ago As someone who has worked tirelessly her entire life for human rights and equality in historic Palestine, I wanted to hear her views about the radicalization of Jewish Israeli youth, especially in light of the most recent Israeli aggression in Gaza and the West Bank and the mobs attacking Palestinians in mixed Israeli cities.
US-Indonesia Maritime Collaboration in the South China Sea: Harbinger of an Expanded Quad-Plus?
efforts to broker peace between Israel and Palestine will go a long way in assuaging grassroots Indonesian hostility to the U.
With Jerusalem, Hezbollah Is Now Playing Catch-up
A Prized Highjack
Since the Tehran regime’s founding in 1979, the question of Palestine has offered it an opportunity to extend its ideological influence into both the Islamic and Arab world.
International Support for the New Israeli Government is Misguided
However, the Zionist apartheid system cannot be changed within the Zionist state and no solution to the injustice that plagues Palestine can be found within the Zionist system itself.
“I Don’t Want to Be a Mother in Gaza”: Diaries of a War Survivor
Our stories, laughs, roars no longer heard
Look on my face, and despair
Of taking my soul, my dreams, my Palestine.
What Travel Restrictions Reveal about Palestinian Life under Israeli Occupation
This changed after 1993, the year that saw the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Gaza War Diaries: Survivor Number Five
Read: Say This, Don’t Say That: Time to Confront the Misleading Language on Palestine, IsraelMany people, even those closest to me, do not understand the pain that I hide behind my eyes, behind my smiles, and my laughs.
Israeli Jewish Extremism and Radicalization in the 21st Century
The underlying beliefs of the Israeli right-wing are: Territorial expansion into all of Eretz Yisrael (historic Palestine), prioritizing Jewish identity over democracy, focus on security and Israel’s existential threat, distrust of Palestinians and foreigners, and centrality of Nationalism/Patriotism.
Asymmetric Warfare, The Palestinian Struggle and Missile Attacks
Read: Say This, Don’t Say That: Time to Confront the Misleading Language on Palestine, IsraelSince the batteries are distributed over various locations and can only protect an area of maximum 60 square kilometers, when one defense line is under intense rocket and missile fire, it can no longer defend the territory.
Intifada 3.0: Trick or Treat?
alestine is back on the map.
Zionism and Hindu Nationalism Bring Israel and India Together
For more than a week, the hashtags #IndiaWithIsrael, “#ISupportIsrael, #IndiaStandsWithIsrael and #PalestineTerrorists were the top trending topics on Twitter in India, demonstrating widespread popular support for the Israel and its heavy-handed military response to Palestinian resistance.
Will the Biden Administration Continue Trump’s Abraham Accords Legacy?
To maintain relevance, and equally to assert the supremacy of the Abraham Accords in terms of making Palestine diplomatically and politically insignificant, former senior adviser Jared Kushner launched the “Abraham Accords Institute for Peace” earlier this month, to promote and strengthen the normalization agreement.
Lives amidst War in the Holy Land: The Perspective from an American SUV
Whether they realize it or not, the American and European public have a greater responsibility than anyone else in the world to pressure their governments to resolve the Palestine-Israel issue.
