From Middle Easy Eye: It was like a scene straight out of a horror film. That's how 25-year-old Ibrahim Abu Safiya described the moment he saw someone lying on the ground near an Israeli checkpoint on the outskirts of Beit Sira village, west of Ramallah. "We...
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West Bank Settlements Not Illegal, US Decides In Major Policy Shift
Dang old hell, man. I tell you what.
Palestinians’ Living Standard? Don’t Change the Subject!
Opposing Palestinian self-determination because West Bank Arabs have a higher living standard than other Arabs is like opposing the abolition of slavery because, unlike white factory workers, slaves have job security.
Palestinians Cancel Soccer Final After Israel Denies Gaza Team Travel
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...
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...
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...
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...
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