Selected Articles
US Policy and the Future of Palestine
Note: The following is the text of a speech delivered on October 22, 2010 in Washington by Kathleen Christison at the annual meeting of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations (NCUSAR) on the subject of current U.S. policy toward the Israel-Palestine problem. Christison is an accomplished author and a retired Middle East analyst at the CIA. By Kathleen Christison: When Benjamin...
The Israeli-Palestinian Settlement Impasse
By Saeb Erakat: It comes as little surprise that Palestinian-Israeli negotiations are at an impasse. The lesson after nearly two decades of bilateral negotiations is that direct talks alone are not enough to guarantee peace. A principled, unshakable commitment to international law is also required. International law sets the benchmark for a just peace and helps ensure that Palestinians and Israelis...
Life in Palestinian Refugee Camps
By Stephen Lendman: Besides mass slaughter and destruction, wars create refugees, millions at times, uprooted, displaced and homeless, on their own somehow to survive. Israel's "War of Independence" was no different, dispossessing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, a story Western media reports don't explain or even mention. In his book, "My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story," Ramzy Baroud...
The Courtroom Security Fence
Rachel Corrie investigation not complete, credible or transparent .... From behind a “make-shift curtain,” the driver who killed Rachel Corrie repeatedly contradicted his earlier testimony and affidavit. Attorney Abu Hussein stood on the sixth floor of the Haifa courthouse, in front of his clients Cindy, Sarah and Craig Corrie. Seven years ago, their fourth family member was killed under...
Israel's Longstanding Middle East Plan
By Steve Lendman: In 1982, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs senior advisor Oded Yinon published a revealing document for regional conquest and dominance. Still relevant today, it's titled "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s, translated, edited, and retitled "The Zionist Plan for the Middle East" by distinguished Professor Israel Shahak (1933 - 2001), longtime activist, analyst, and outspoken Israeli critic. Its...
The Elephant in The Room
By: Dr. Larbi Sadik: Excluding Hamas from current and future Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations is an exercise in futility. Sidelining Hamas in any process to craft genuine peace between Israelis and Palestinians is a glaring omission tantamount to ignoring an elephant in the room. Whether it is Obama's or the UN's negotiating room, pretending something of that size absent is an exercise...
Without Water, There is No Life
Biddun Maia, Fish Heyya By Ziad Abbas: Since I started working at Middle East Children's Alliance, the MAIA Project to bring clean water to the children of Palestine has become closest to my heart. All of our projects are important for people in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq, but the MAIA Project is connected to my history and my family. It...
Article Bil'in Model of Wall Resistance
by: Iyad Burnat , Bil'in Popular committee: In the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, a 770 km Separation Wall weaves in and out of Palestinian towns and villages separating Palestinians from their homes and land. The construction of this wall by Israel isolates 29 Palestinian towns (area of 216,567 dunums or 54,141 Acres) from the West Bank and leaves them on the...
Controlling the narrative in Israel and Palestine
by Paul McGeough :Tooling around suburban Washington earlier this week, the car radio shrieked – on just a single word, it seemed. National Public Radio was reporting the uncertain fate of this latest round of Middle East peace talks, in light of last Sunday's expiration of what has been billed as a moratorium on Israeli settlement expansion on Palestinian land. But...
