Selected Articles
Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Media Missing In Action
By: Richard Falk*. Is the mass Palestinian prisoner hunger strike the beginning of the Palestinian Spring? Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1,500 prisoners engaged in a hunger strike in any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story? Such an obsession would, of course, be greatest...
US Weapons Claiming Palestinian Lives, Group Says
By: David Elkins. This A new policy paper published earlier this week by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation documents a number of cases occurring over the past decade in which weapons and ammunition produced and financed by the U.S. have been used to kill unarmed Palestinians and U.S. citizens. "U.S. military aid to Israel is a policy...
Britain's duty to the Palestinian people
By: Raed Salah. I came to the UK to talk about the plight of the Palestinians but ended up fighting deportation. This is what I wanted to say. In June 2011 I came to Britain to begin a speaking tour to draw attention to the plight of my people, the Palestinian citizens of Israel. The tour was meant to last...
Defining a U.S. Role in the Arab Spring
By: Henry A. Kissinger. Not the least significant aspect of the Arab Spring is the redefinition of heretofore prevalent principles of foreign policy. As the United States is withdrawing from military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan undertaken on the basis (however disputed) of U.S. national security, it is re-engaging in several other states in the region (albeit uncertainly) in the...
The Palestinians and the Arab Spring
By: Abdullah Bin Hussein. Amman A year has passed since the Arab Spring began to change our region, showing the determination of Arab men and women, especially youth. But a key issue remains unresolved: peace between Palestinians and Israelis. This month, in Amman, the parties sat across the negotiating table for the first time in 16 months. What message will the United...
Is Israel guilty of the crime of apartheid?
Opinion || By: Richard Falk.* Richard Falk reflects on the Russell Tribunal on Palestine Session in Cape Town, South Africa. It is my belief that the recent finding of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) that the state of Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid in relation to the Palestine people should be taken with the utmost seriousness...
On the 64th Anniversary of UN Resolution 181 Lebanon’s Palestinians Continue Their Descent
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People: By: Franklin Lamb. Embassy of Palestine, Tripoli, Libya. Every year on November 29, approximately a quarter million Palestinian refugees who were forced into Lebanon, along with those in more than 130 countries where they have sought refuge following their ethnic cleansing from their land, commemorate the infamous United Nations Resolution 181.Between Nov....
Unsustainable Israeli Politics of Exclusion in Jerusalem
By Nicola Nasser. While the history of the world is moving decisively toward a culture of inclusion, diversity and pluralism, Israeli politics seems to challenge history by moving in the opposite direction of exclusion and unilateral self - righteous monopoly of geography, demography, history, archeology and culture, especially in Jerusalem, where Israelis are desperately trying to establish a “Jewish” capital...
Apartheid and the Occupation of Palestine
By: John Dugard.* This week, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will consider the question of whether Israel's practices in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) constitute the crime of apartheid within the meaning of the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. This Convention, which has been incorporated into the Rome Statute of the International Criminal...
