Advertisements Once again, outside interference in Palestinian affairs caused severe harm to Palestinians, and also set back the very ambitions those outsiders wished to advance. For at least the past year, Professor Nathan Brown has been putting forth a nuanced view of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad with the goalContinue Reading
Advertisements I’ve pasted below the full text of what is, according to the Palestinian National Initiative (Mustafa Barghouti’s organization), the new Palestinian unity agreement. My thanks go to independent journalist Jared Malsin for alerting me to this translation, and to Ma’an News’reporter and English Editor George Hale for the list ofContinue Reading
Advertisements Readers of my work will be aware that I have frequently cited the articles of MJ Rosenberg, late of the Israel Policy Forum and who now works for Media Matters. In recent days, MJ has been going absolutely ballistic over the American Task Force on Palestine’s (ATFP) engagement withContinue Reading
Advertisements The political mudslinging between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Tzipi Livni over the failure of Israel’s siege of Gaza would be amusing if it were not so disturbing. The exchange basically comes down to Bibi saying that he inherited the Gaza siege from the previous governmentContinue Reading
Advertisements Few events are as badly misunderstood as the 2006 election that brought a stunning victory for Hamas. The factors that led to that electoral victory were: The perception that Fatah had failed utterly to make any significant gains for the Palestinian people The widespread corruption that was the normContinue Reading
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