It is not the Palestinians who should be welcoming the European Union’s decision to hastily donate another $142 million before the Hamas…
It is evidently difficult to scrub off the sticker that is glued onto the front window. That’s why when a new car…
While the international community busied itself with the disengagement from the Gaza Strip last summer, Israel completed another cut-off process, which went…
The young woman who came into the corner grocery in the Jenin refugee camp did not hide her hostility when told there…
In contrast to the “big bangs,” or the election of MK Amir Peretz as Labor Party chairman and the resignation of Prime…
If you throw a frog into boiling water, it will jump out and save its life. But a frog swimming in room…
For Palestinians, Yitzhak Rabin is remembered first of all as someone who instructed soldiers to break their arms and legs, when they…
The Israel Defense Forces has been constructing a major new checkpoint south of Nablus, at the Zaatara (Tapuah) junction, for checking Palestinian…
Salah Wared is a Palestinian who was born in Yemen and arrived with his family in Gaza as part of the Oslo…
Another demand was added last week to the list of demands of the Independent Workers Committees in Gaza, which they have been…
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