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In the West Bank, a horror story

by Yousef Munayyer December 24, 2011

Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and the Israeli state’s failure to adequately respond to it highlight an important aspect of the Israeli occupation’s Apartheid-like policies.

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What happens when a Gazan wants to marry a West Bank woman?

by Amira Hass December 19, 2011

Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed themselves? You don’t believe it?

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The truth behind another Israeli expulsion trick

by Amira Hass June 28, 2011

The artificial division between Areas A, B and C was supposed to be erased from the map, and dropped from the discourse, in 1999. Instead, Israel has sanctified and perpetuated it.

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March 15 and the roots of our struggle

by SR Editor March 29, 2011

A mass mobilization of Palestinians to pressure Hamas and Fatah to end the four-year-long division. Rather than topple the governments, as was the goal with the uprisings in neighboring countries, demonstrators hope to be able to bring them together.

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Israeli and PA Forces Suppress Solidarity with Egyptians

by Stephen Lendman February 11, 2011

PA banned demonstrations in solidarity with the rebelling peoples. Palestinian television has virtually ignored the events in Egypt. PA launches pro-Mubarak demonstration in Ramallah,” denouncing Mohamed ElBaradei as a CIA agent.

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Palestine is the key to Arab democracy

by Sam Bahour February 7, 2011

Egyptians would be well advised to learn from the Palestinians that the window of opportunity for real change comes all too infrequently. They should therefore be very clear on what they desire from this historic episode. I’d guess that the US state department already has more than a few scenarios in place and dealing with these is what the Egyptian people will really be up against in the coming weeks.

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Can the Palestinian Authority survive?

by Jonathan Cook February 1, 2011

With the 18-year-long Middle East peace process finally pronounced dead, is the Palestinian Authority (PA) finished too? That is the question being asked by Palestinians in the wake of a week of damaging revelations that Palestinian negotiators secretly made major concessions to Israel in talks on Jerusalem, refugees and borders.

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The PA’s ultimate act of resistance

by SR Editor December 15, 2010

An international battle for recognition of a Palestinian state must be based on a clear vision and preparedness to confront Israeli actions. For international support alone will not lead to the creation of a Palestinian state. Regardless of whether Palestinians opt for a one- or two-state solution, they cannot avoid a battle to end the occupation under which they currently live.
The PA cannot be taken seriously as long as it accommodates Israeli terms and demands. Israel continues to prevent the movement of goods and people, to conduct raids and arrests in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and to strike at the Gaza Strip. Thus a prerequisite for any significant Palestinian move must be an immediate halt to security coordination between Israel and the PA.

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Abdullah Abu Rahmah: A Message from Israeli Military Prison on International Human Rights Day

by SR Editor December 15, 2010

I find it strange that the military judges could call our demonstrations illegal and charge me for participating in and organizing them after the world’s highest legal body, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, has ruled that Israel’s wall within the occupied territories is illegal and must be dismantled. Even the Israeli supreme court ruled that the Wall’s route in Bil’in is illegal.

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US mediation monopoly collapsing

by Sam Bahour December 7, 2010

The United States is at a crossroads in its mediation of Middle East peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians. The Obama administration can no longer walk on the Israeli side of the line–which is exactly where the US has been since Israel’s creation–while continuing to pay lip service to the illusion of walking on the thin line of fair mediation. Unfortunately, neither the US, nor anyone in the Palestinian leadership for that matter, has proposed anything beyond brushing the dust off already-failed initiatives and placing the burden for progress on the need for more Palestinian concessions; concessions that do not exist.

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The endgame for the peace process

by SR Editor December 4, 2010

Future historians will no doubt argue over the precise moment when the Arab-Israeli peace process died, when the last glimmer of hope for a two-state solution was irrevocably extinguished. When all is said and done, and the forensics have been completed, I am sure they will conclude that the last realistic prospect for an agreement expired quite some time before now, even if all the players do not quite realise it yet: anger and denial are always the first stages in the grieving process; acceptance of reality only comes later.

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Who Can Save Mahmoud Abbas?

by Nadia Hijab December 3, 2010

Abbas is certainly at a crossroads. Will he go down in history as the great liberator or a big loser? The United States appears intent on making him a loser, pushing him to restart direct talks with Israel even though there is no indication that this time would be any different than the past 19 years.

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Palestinian Authority Traitors Serving Israel

by Stephen Lendman October 20, 2010

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ duplicitous treachery exposes him as an enemy, not ally, of his people. An earlier article on him quoted Jeffrey Blankfort calling him a “double agent (serving) his Israeli and US masters in plain sight.” In June 2003, Edward Said called him “Israel’s sheriff,” saying he’s “colorless, moderately corrupt, and without any clear ideas of his own, except that he wants to please the white man,” his Washington and bosses.

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Yes indeed, show us all the map!

by Alan Hart October 19, 2010

Better late than never, a very senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, Yasser Abed Rabbo, found the right way to challenge Israel and the U.S. As reported by AFP on 13 October, he said, “We officially demand that the US administration and the Israeli government provide a map of the borders of the state of Israel which they want us to recognise.”

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Fatah: Collaborationist Israeli Ally

by Stephen Lendman September 12, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz At least since the Oslo Accords, Fatah has served Israel more than its own people. On August 25, Haaretz highlighted the latest example, headling “PA arrests dozens of Hamas, Islamic Jihad militants in West Bank,” saying, a PA source confirmed dozens made, including “high ranking officials in [...]

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