• November 21, 2024
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Articles Palestine/Israel

No Palestinian State and the PA ‘Works for Us’: Netanyahu’s Remarks Should Inspire Paradigm Shift

Now, armed with a stable coalition, immune from any meaningful criticism, let alone tangible consequences to his action, the Israeli leader feels ready to carry out his right-wing agenda without further hesitation.

Articles Palestine/Israel

Losing ‘Deterrence’: How Palestinian, Arab Resistance Changed Rules of War with Israel

While Israeli politicians and military strategists are openly fighting over who has cost Israel its precious ‘deterrence,’ very few seem willing to consider that Israel’s best chance at survival is peacefully co-existing with Palestinians.

Articles Palestine/Israel

Criticizing or Whitewashing Israel: Netanyahu’s New Government Accentuates West’s Hypocrisy

In truth, Israel has not changed much, either in its own self-definition or in its treatment of Palestinians. Failing to understand this is tantamount to tacit approval of Israel’s racist, violent and colonial policies in Occupied Palestine over the course of 75 years.

Articles Palestine/Israel

Constantly on the Verge of Collapse: How Palestinians Became a Factor in Israeli Politics

Israel is now facing the dilemma of either ignoring this new Palestinian factor, at its own peril, or accepting the inescapable fact that Israel can never enjoy stability while Palestinians remain occupied, confined and oppressed.

Articles Palestine/Israel

Morality Cannot Be Divided: How Netanyahu’s Corruption has Exposed Israel’s ‘Democracy’

It turns out that morality cannot be divided based on geography, class, religion or race. It might be time for ordinary Israelis to accept this unavoidable truism.

Articles Palestine/Israel

Bennett’s Political Theater: The Decisive Israeli-Palestinian Fight Ahead

So far, Bennett has proven to be another Netanyahu. Yet, if Israel’s longest-running prime minister ultimately failed to convince Israelis of the merit of his political doctrine, Bennett’s charade is likely to be exposed much sooner, and the price, this time, is sure to be even heavier.

Articles Global Affairs Palestine/Israel

‘Putting Lipstick on a Pig’: Why Washington is Fawning over Israel’s New Government

While the Americans and the Israelis are busy engaging in the ever-familiar ritual of ‘putting lipstick on a pig’, the Palestinians remain irrelevant in all of this, as their political aspirations continue to be discounted, and their freedom delayed.

Articles Middle East Palestine/Israel

On the Politics of Victory and Defeat: How Gaza Dethroned the King of Israel

Netanyahu struggled to redeem his image. It was too late. As strange as this may sound, it was not Bennett or Lieberman who finally dethroned the ‘King of Israel’, but the Palestinians themselves.

Articles Palestine/Israel

Power at Any Cost: How Opportunistic Mansour Abbas Joined Hands with Avowed ‘Arab Killers’

n truth, Mansour Abbas, a Palestinian Arab politician who is willing to find common ground with extremists and proud ‘Arab killers’,  only represents himself. The future shall attest to this claim. 

Articles Middle East Palestine/Israel

A Country in Turmoil: Why Netanyahu is a Symptom, Not Cause of Israel’s Political Crisis

Without a clear ideology, especially when combined with the lack of a written Constitution, Israeli politics will remain hostage to the whims of politicians and their personal interests, if not that of Netanyahu, then of someone else.