Advertisements 30 years ago today, Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands in front of Bill Clinton on the White House lawn. Imaginations got fired up about a post-Cold War world that even saw peace in the Middle East. Obviously, that didn’t happen. But we didn’t need the benefit ofContinue Reading
Advertisements For a very long time, the United States worked diligently to stay away from the tense debate over Israel’s ability to be both a Jewish and democratic state. Even as Palestinians cried out about their lack of freedom and basic rights and their lives proved that a state havingContinue Reading
Advertisements 2023 has been an eventful year in Palestine. Unfortunately, “eventful in Palestine” generally means bloody, and there is no doubt that this has been a particularly bloody year. Yet there has been more in 2023, as we have seen profound shifts in the political realities in key areas. NothingContinue Reading
Advertisements In the early morning hours of January 19, an Israeli military force came into the homes of the Salhiyeh family in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. They evicted the family, arresting some of them and leaving the rest of them to watch as, later in the day, bulldozers demolishedContinue Reading
Advertisements Netanyahu is out and very little will change as a result. Israel’s apartheid policies, inside and outside its internationally recognized borders, will continue. Creeping annexation will continue. Efforts to undermine the JCPOA will continue. Much of what will be attributed to Netanyahu, such as Israel’s sharp rightward and nationalisticContinue Reading
