Selected Articles
Articles International Law in Israel's Gaza Flotilla Attack
By Anthony DiMaggio: *Original Article Title: Erasing International Law in Israel's Gaza Flotilla Attack / Rogue State PoliticsThere has been much intense discussion of Israel's recent attack against a flotilla of aid ships that was travelling to Gaza, intent on violating the blockade imposed by Israel against the government of Hamas and the Palestinian people. Much of the debate, unfortunately,...
Robert Fisk Western Leaders or Activists?
In this article, Robert Fisk argues that it is a fact "ordinary people, activists, call them what you will," are who now take decisions to change events; and asks whether Western leaders are "too cowardly to help save lives?". Robert Fisk: Western leaders are too cowardly to help save lives The Independent, 1/6/2010Has Israel lost it? Can the Gaza War of 2008-09 (1,300 dead)...
Dina Jadallah Nakba and the Two State Solution: Unrealistic 'Realism'
By Dina Jadallah: On the surface and viewed from the perspective of dominating powers, their designated minions, and entrenched cohorts, it may appear that the Nakba is diminishing. Several facts corroborate that view: the passage of time, the very dispossession and dislocation of millions, the tendency of official Palestinian "leadership" to accept whatever scraps they are given, the seemingly insurmountable...
Salman Abu Sitta Hasbara or Za'bara
By Salman Abu Sitta: Part of the First Word War To maintain a facade of moral code, you do not kill a friend, you kill an enemy. You do not rob another man’s house, you recover your long-forgotten property. These are the principles adopted in all wars and conflicts. That is why it was always the mission of the aggressor to...
Daoud Kuttab Begin was Right, Deportation is a Nazi Policy
By Daoud Kuttab: There is a reason for the fact, that in modern times laws are written by representatives of the people to whom they are applied: Governments and parliaments come and go, but laws often outlive them. Except in dictatorships, laws are not written by the executives who enforce them or the judges who interpret them. Even some totalitarian rulers create...
Rashid Khalidi Bad Faith in the Holy City: Israel's Jerusalem Policy
The expansion of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem was a provocation aimed at the United States -- and only made the path toward long-term peace more difficult. If the Obama administration hopes to preserve its role as a broker of future Mideast peace talks, it must hold firm in applying international resolutions on the issue....
What Kind of Palestinian State in 2011?
By Rafeef Ziadah: In December 2007, the Palestinian National Authority (PA), in close consultation with donor states and institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, proposed the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan (PRDP), a program based on "rebuilding the Palestinian national institutions" and "developing the Palestinian public and private sectors."[1] To augment this plan, the PA further...
Richard Falk The Palestinians are Winning the Legitimacy War: Will it Matter?
By Richard Falk: Ever since the Balfour Declaration in 1917 gave the formal approval of the British government to the establishment of “a Jewish homeland”, profound issues of legitimacy were present in the conflict recently known as the Israel-Palestine conflict. This original colonialist endorsement of the Zionist project has produced a steady erosion of the position of the Palestinian people on...
