Reuters: The Palestinian national soccer club championship was called off on Wednesday after Israel denied travel permits to Gaza players who had hoped to face off with their opponents in the occupied West Bank. Israel refused to let players from Gaza’s Khadamat Rafah club travel several dozen kilometers through its territory to play Nablus’s FC Balata in the central West Bank. Israeli officials have not given a public explanation of the reasons. Some media reports have quoted Israeli security sources saying team members were believed to have links to terrorism. Read the...
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Israel Annexed the West Bank 52 Years Ago
No more pretending they will ever allow Palestinian independence. So, see, Israel is simply a totalitarian apartheid state, like Texas in 1952, only in this case the oppressed are not a small minority but half the population.
Netanyahu: Money to Hamas is Strategy to Keep Palestinians Divided
As it always has been. From the Jerusalem Post: The prime minister said that, “whoever is against a Palestinian state should be for” transferring the funds to Gaza, because maintaining a separation between the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza helps prevent the establishment of a Palestinian...
US Funding Cut for UNRWA Illuminates Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’
On August 31, the US government let the world know that it would not be releasing $60 million pledged to fund the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which is mandated to provide development and humanitarian services to Palestinian refugees, and that no further funding for the agency would be forthcoming unless it changes its definition of “refugee” to reduce their numbers by a target of 90 percent. Days earlier, on August 24, the US had announced that it would not provide $200 million in aid that Congress had allotted this year for humanitarian and economic projects in the...
TGIF: A Glimmer of Hope in Bleak Palestine
The Palestinians' deteriorating conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip makes even long-term optimism difficult. Neither a one-liberal-state nor two-state resolution seems in the offing because (if for no other reason) either would seem to spell political suicide for any foreseeable Israeli government. The one-staters have a good argument against the two-staters and vice versa. Would it really be easier for an Israeli prime minister to evict 400,000 Israeli Jews from the West Bank (leaving aside the more than 200,000 in formally annexed East Jerusalem) than it would be to agree to one...
5/5/17 Ramzy Baroud on Palestinian resistance to 70 years of Israeli occupation and domination
Ramzy Baroud, a journalist, author, and editor of Palestine Chronicle, discusses why Palestinians in Israeli jails are on a hunger strike; Israel's Orwellian attempt to rewrite history by prohibiting the 1948 Nakba's commemoration and attempting to change the occupied West Bank to its biblical name; and how Jewish and non-Jewish critics alike are challenging Israel's founding myths. Check out my Patreon page...
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