Despite the fallout, there was little that was actually new or shocking about Trump and Netanyahuās press conference last week. What shocked…
A people cannot negotiate their fundamental human, national, political and civil rights. The only way out of a colonial situation is through a process of decolonization
There is one silver thread to Trumpās Plan: it puts to bed once and for all the ātwo-state solutionā that Israel never intended to implement and which it buried under its settlements decades ago
The Palestinians are permanent residents of East Jerusalem, but not citizens
Frank Barat caught up with Jeff Halper, long-time Israeli peace activist, author and director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), while he…
The demonstrations currently roiling Israel constitute a grassroots challenge to Israel's neo-liberal regime. Beginning as an uprising of the middle classes —…
Struggling as I have for the past decades to grasp the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and find ways to get out…
On the day before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began, at 2:30 in the morning, workers sent by the Israeli authorities,…
It was as if some official, perhaps one of President Obama’s "czars," like the Czar for Demolishing American Credibility, had orchestrated a…
Almost a decade ago I wrote an article describing Israel’s “matrix of control” over the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It consisted then of…
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