Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by FRIEDMAN Steven
Uri Avnery is a human rights crusader of venerable standing. He has fought, written, published and campaigned for Palestinian rights for some sixty years. He has stood on the political barricades and faced down bulldozers to defend Palestinians from Israeli military abuse. His articles, books, (…)
, by DELMOTTE Paul
Hamas does not formally recognize Israel. This has brought about an international intransigence with regard to its victory in a democratic election. Paul Delmotte shows that Hamas has taken steps toward possible negotiation with Israel - and de facto recognition - which neither Israel nor the (…)
, by AMER Ousama
The dispute over the Executive Force has returned anew to the Palestinian political arena. The Executive Force was formed by the Ministry of the Interior on May 17, 2006. The force initially contained 3,000 individuals from the Palestinian resistance’s military wings. The number of Executive (…)
, by WARSCHAWSKI Michael
The United States and Israel are trying to strengthen the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas (Fatah), at the expense of the Prime Minister, Ismaïl Haniyeh (Hamas). Consequence: inter-Palestinian confrontations have multiplied, and the risks of a civil war have increased. (…)
, by GRAY Alice
THE POLITICAL RHETORIC and frequent violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict often serve to mask underlying environmental issues which, if not resolved, may pose an even greater threat to the well-being of the Palestinian population than the guns and bombs of the military occupation. (…)
, by BAROUD Ramzy
What is taking place in the Occupied Territories, particularly in the Gaza Strip has much less to do with inter-factional rivalries and a lot more with regional and international power plays, notes Ramzy Baroud.
It’s all too convenient for the BBC website to describe the ongoing bloodshed (…)
, by AMAYREH Khaled
With thousands of Palestinians facing starvation, Fatah and Hamas increasingly fought one another in 2006, with the spectre of mass civil strife looming at every turn, writes Khaled Amayreh from occupied Palestine
It is doubtless that 2006 will be viewed by historians as one of the most (…)
, by Alternative Information Center
Self-presentation taken from the AIC website, December 21, 2006.
The Alternative Information Center (AIC) is a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization which prioritizes political advocacy, critical analysis and information sharing on the Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as on the (…)
, by ABU NIMAH Hasan, ABUNIMAH Ali
After months of anticipation, Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah faction finally launched their attempted coup against the democratically-elected cabinet headed by the Hamas party and prime minister Ismail Haniyeh.
Days of interfactional violence, following Abbas’ (…)
, by COOK Jonathan
The era of the Middle East strongman, propped up by and enforcing Western policy, appears well and truly over. His power is being replaced with rule by civil war, apparently now the American administration’s favoured model across the region.
Fratricidal fighting is threatening to engulf, or (…)
, by ABU-MANNEH Bashir
Since occupying the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, Israel has been the only sovereign state in British Mandate Palestine. Palestinians have been living either as second-class citizens in the Jewish state; or as colonized residents of the West Bank and Gaza with no human or political rights; or as (…)
, by MIFTAH
The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) strongly condemns the recent escalation in inter-factional violence in the Palestinian territories. Last week’s killing of four people, including three children, in Gaza followed by Thursday’s shooting attack (…)
, by BROWN Christopher, PAPPE Ilan
A tenuous ceasefire is holding in the Gaza Strip after almost five months of a heavy dose of “Operation Summer Rain” by the Israeli military.
The showers of missiles, aerial bombardment, military incursions into populated areas over the course of the five month ’rain’ storm have left dead more (…)
, by MIFTAH
The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) urges the international community to take immediate action to end Israel’s military aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. In particular, we call upon members of civil society (…)
, by NASSER Nicola
Avigdor Lieberman’s ascent to a strategic executive role in Israel has unmasked the artificial divide between left and right and revealed the mainstream ruling elite as still in consensus on the Zionist goals, a fact that rules out any credible peace process in the foreseeable future and dooms (…)
, by MERRIMAN Rima
The terrible imbalance of power between the Israelis and Palestinians makes it impossible for Israel, regardless of which government is in power, to deal with the Palestinians in any way except through a lens of assumed moral, cultural, and racial superiority, as though military prowess equates (…)
, by BISHARA Azmi
Avigdor Lieberman’s arrival in the Israeli cabinet is symptomatic of the degradation of the country’s political system, writes Azmi Bishara
Israel will probably not adopt a presidential system now that Avigdor Lieberman’s party has joined the government coalition though the acceptance of his (…)
, by ABUNIMAH Ali
In a frightening but long expected move, Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has brought the Yisrael Beitenu party into his coalition government. The party’s leader, Avigdor Lieberman, is to be vice prime minister and, as “Minister for Strategic Threats,” a key member of Israel’s “security (…)
, by WARSCHAWSKI Michael
From an ethical point of view, history never stands in the same place: if it doesn’t move towards less oppression and more justice, it moves towards less rights and more barbarism. Paraphrasing the German revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg, who predicted twenty years before the rise of (…)
, by BARGHOUTI Marwan
Marwan Barghouthi is a member of the Revolutionary Council of Fateh. He is currently serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail, but is viewed by all observers, including Israelis, as a potential future Palestinian leader. His imprisonment is seen as a political act and his release will (…)
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