He was returning from his friend’s house in the southern village of Neha, deep in Hezbollah-controlled territory, 28 km from the Lebanese-Palestinian border.
The international humanitarian assistance – a policy adopted in 1958 – has since become a veneer for the more pressing atrocities against the Palestinian people.
Judaism, along the same line, has become a hegemonic religion in Israel, hence fueling discrimination against other religious minorities as well as uncompromising positions vis-à-vis the Palestinian claims.
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A brief synopsis of these issues reveals that the most salient stalemates regarded certain Middle Eastern countries’ support for Jihadist organizations, neglected security demands, and the unresolved Palestinian issue.
Nevertheless, Syrian and Palestinian refugees paid the brunt for the “founding narrative” and fragility of the Lebanese state that was envisioned during the process of its insurrection following the first World War.
As for the question of Palestine, with the Arab states now integrated with Israel militarily, there will be no incentive for Tel-Aviv to abide by international norms and grant Palestinians their right to statehood.
On January 9, a number of Palestinian media companies and political organizations stopped posting on Facebook for two hours to protest the social media giant's suspension of their colleagues' accounts and deletion of their content.
El Salvador, one of the countries with higher immigration rates from the Middle East and whose president Nayib Bukele is a descendant of Palestinian immigrants, is very obedient to what Washington dictates.
Now, Netanyahu got what he wanted and General Gantz has shown himself to be spineless and pitiful - not surprising for a general who made a career out of the indiscriminate killing and oppression of the Palestinian people.
During the election cycle, the Palestinian cause was brought up multiple times, thus signaling that the topic is one of utmost priority for most Kuwaitis.
The Syrian director spent most of his teenage life in Al-Hajar al-Aswad, an area which is adjacent to the Yarmouk refugee camp, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria.
In 1948, the Lehi gang assassinated Swedish diplomat and UN Peace Mediator Folke Bernadotte in Jerusalem to protest his efforts to modify the UN Partition Plan of 1947 in favor of the Palestinians.
1 million Palestinians, 75% of whom are refugees, was one of the last territories to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic due to its 13-year-long isolation and siege.
Palestinian-American Iman Jodeh is the first Muslim American to be elected to represent the 41st district in the Colorado House of Representatives in the 2020 general election, becoming the first Muslim lawmaker in the state’s history.
Despite unrelenting Israeli colonization and the entrenchment of apartheid, several important Muslim countries have taken the bold step of normalizing relations with Israel, and appear to be abandoning the Palestinian cause.