To live up to Israel’s expectations and to ensure its survival, the Palestinian Authority is willing to clash directly with Palestinians who refuse to toe the line, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Mahmoud Abbas & Risk of Civil War
Category: Israel
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Lebanon, After the Collapse
Lebanon’s economic crisis is being compounded by political stalemate, corruption and Western interference, while Hezbollah’s political position has weakened because of a flailing relationship with its Christian ally, writes As’ad AbuKhalil.
US Anthropology Group Joins Academic Boycott of Israel
The American Anthropological Association has become the largest U.S. scholastic group to pass a resolution to boycott Israeli educational institutions, Peoples Dispatch reports. The measure does not extend to individual academics.
US Complicit in Israeli Aggression in Jenin
Israel could not mount its military aggression against Palestinians without $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military aid, writes Marjorie Cohn.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Why Israel Is Afraid of Hezbollah
The emergence of a disciplined resistance movement in Lebanon not only brought military defeat to Israel and the rise of Hezbollah, it heralded a new era of Arab assertiveness.
Israel Cannot Rebut Apartheid
In late June, after visiting Palestine and Israel on behalf of a group formed by Nelson Mandela, two former senior U.N. officials — Ban Ki-moon and Mary Robinson — published a scathing report on their findings, writes Vijay Prashad.
Resistance in Jenin
The refugee camp terrifies Israel because it is a representation of a much greater fight undertaken by Palestinians in besieged Gaza and throughout the Occupied West Bank, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Israel’s Massive Colony Expansion
The approval by Netanyahu’s coalition government of thousands of new colonial settlement units in the Occupied West Bank comes in the midst of a nearly week-long wave of violence that has drawn international condemnation.
Misdirecting the Fight Against Anti-Semitism
Embracing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance document on anti-Semitism was a mistake by the Biden administration, writes Lawrence Davidson, a mistake likely made with eyes wide open.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Kissinger & the Arabs
The role of the former senior U.S. foreign policy adviser — who just turned 100 — has been overstated in the Arab world. But that is not to exonerate his crimes.