Israeli Apartheid Ambiguity
Israel has long practiced a policy of nuclear ambiguity. No one's fooled, however. With Israeli Apartheid a similar policy of Apartheid Ambiguity is in place.Read More: Israeli Apartheid Ambiguity ....
View ArticleGaza: Bodies for Ballots
In Gaza, the equation of trading bodies for ballots is an Israeli leader's favorite game. All the ballots are Israeli and the bodies are always Palestinian.Read More: Gaza: Bodies for Ballots . Sign up...
View ArticleWhen The Smoke Clears In Gaza
Palestinian Arabs will not give up their right to the land or to full equality; they are not simply going to go away. But they are wrong to believe that this challenge can be solved by force.Read More:...
View ArticleAmerica’s Failed Palestinian Policy
The US government must ask: what message do America's policies send to Israelis and Palestinians? Policies have sent counterproductive messages to the Palestinians that have only increased the...
View ArticleFew facts, a lot of racism: Palestine in US media
American media does not only disregard atrocity of Israel bombardment of Gaza, but also promote the theory that identifies "being Muslim" as becoming a terrorist.Read More: Few facts, a lot of racism:...
View ArticleStephen M. Walt: Why Americans don’t understand the Middle East
American media needs new narratives that are less likely to rehash the same-old, same-old thinking that has kept U.S. Middle East policy stuck on the hamster-wheel for the past two decades or more.Read...
View ArticlePalestine’s Non-Member State Shows Isolation of U.S. and Israel
The move is viewed as a victory for Palestine, but a diplomatic setback for the United States and Israel, who were joined by only a handful of countries in opposing the decision.Read More: Palestine’s...
View ArticleWhy Israel-Palestine Peace Process Failed
There is a complete imbalance of power between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel is the only party between the river and the sea which is able, through the use of unchecked force, to alter the...
View ArticleYousef Munayyer: What Israel’s Election Outcome Means – And Doesn’t Mean
The ballots have been cast and counted and the Israeli election is now over. Post-election reporting and analysis have been rife with speculation and misinformation. Here is what the outcome of this...
View ArticleHow Intifada Fears Show Only Israeli Security Matters – by Yousef Munayyer
It’s happening again. Talk of the possibility of a third Intifada is on the rise as increased Palestinian protests are recurring in the West Bank. Many are on edge waiting for the spark. What will it...
View ArticleYousef Munayyer: Mandela and My Son
U.S. Glorifies Nelson Mandela in death. But treated him as a terrorist while alive. Nelson Mandela was a freedom fighter. The western glorification of Mandela today, despite years of supporting the...
View ArticleLessons from Yarmouk
Yarmouk is merely the most recent episode in the legacy of the Nakba. Every decade or so another episode of dispossession and loss plays out for stateless Palestinian refugees in troubled host...
View ArticleWashington Getting Pushed Around By Israel
The role that the United States is playing and the failure of Washington to get Israel to abide by commitments that it has made and obligations that it has is just symptomatic of the larger problem....
View ArticleWhy ‘Jewish state’ demand is a non-starter
The main reason Netanyahu makes this demand is that he knows the Palestinians cannot accept it. Yet, he makes it, knowing it will be met with sympathy in Washington and put the Palestinians in the...
View ArticleThe Flotilla embodies the Arab Spring spirit
When fundamentally unjust situations are left unaddressed by states, the people must step in. As the collective punishment of 1.5 millions civilians persists, it's time to ask yourself: which side are...
View ArticleCounting the cost of a Palestinian state
The size of the territory allotted for Palestine state continued to shrink with every new Israeli settlement. Do the Palestinians want this state? No, clearly not. The post: Counting the cost of a...
View ArticleWhat “Undivided Jerusalem” Is Really About
When people people argue that the U.S. should recognize Jerusalem as the “eternal, undivided capital” of Israel, what they are actually arguing for is that the United States should recognize the...
View ArticleAmerican media: why do they hate us?
The answer is that there is a foundation of discontent with the United States that has become engrained in many Arab and Muslim societies so that even the simplest and stupidest of films can become an...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Subverted anti-Muslim/anti-Palestinian Ads in NYC Subway
Monday night, shortly after controversial ads purchased by anti-Islam and anti-Palestinian activist Pamela Geller began running in 10 New York City subway stations, several of them were altered,...
View ArticleWiping Palestinians Off the Agenda – Wiping Palestine Off the Map
Enter Netanyahu, and his cartoon. Abbas’s warning was all but forgotten. What we saw at the UNGA last week was a microcosm of a much larger and ongoing strategy on the part of Netanyahu: to use the...
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