Selected Articles
The Unseen and Unpunished Violence Against Palestinians
By: Patrick O. Strickland. Over the course of the last four decades, Western media, in both its corporate and state forms, have sculpted an image of the Arab and Muslim worlds largely founded on xenophobic, indeed Orientalist, notions. As a consequence of this media campaign, few can claim to have experienced such an extensive, grueling, and ongoing period of suffering...
Anne and Rachel: a Legacy of Two Martyrs
Anne Frank and Rachel Corrie. By: Jennifer Loewenstein. Sixty-Seven years after the end of World War II, a team of researchers and cameramen from the Anne Frank House in Holland showed up at the Capitol Lakes retirement center in Madison, Wisconsin to interview my father-in-law, Fritz Loewenstein. Fritz is the only known person still living who had been boyhood friends...
The Massive Palestinian Hunger Strike: Traveling below the Western Radar
By Prof. Richard Falk. Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1300 hunger strikers in any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story? It would be featured day after day, and reported on from all angles, including the severe medical risks associated with such a lengthy refusal...
We Palestinians are Reclaiming Our Destiny
By: Ismail Haniyeh, heads the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip. As a new spirit of unity sweeps the Arab world, Palestine must also speak with one voice. Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. This...
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...
