Osama Abu Arab, a well-known official at the Palestinian Authority’s military liaison office, was arrested by PA forces on Saturday after publically criticizing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to attend Shimon Peres’s funeral. Hours after Abu Arab’s arrest, an Abbas administration official said in an Israeli Radio interview that Abbas had “no regrets” in his decision to attend the funeral. In Beit Jibrin refugee camp, one young man, who asked to remain anonymous, told Mondoweiss that Abbas’ attendance at Peres funeral was just another indicator that the Palestinian President was “not on the side of the people.”

A Palestinian from Gaza writes a letter to African-Americans pointing out the many similarities share as oppressed peoples: “I do not have to be black to understand the words of Marin Luther King Jr. when he said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ I am a Palestinian who is extending his arms in brotherhood to another people who know and live my legacy of oppression.”

Amanda Taub’s piece in the New York Times saying there are no villains in Yemen– because our ally Saudi Arabia is killing children — is an instant Orwellian classic

Kim Jensen interviews Green Party vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka about Israel/Palestine, and the broader Arab world. Baraka says a Green Party administration would offer a reset on US/Israel relations: “We have to let this ally Israel know that it is a new day: that a real motion toward resolving this conflict has to unfold. We are not going to support the settlement process. We are not going to provide political cover for obvious criminal behavior. Support from the US is not going to be sustained if Israel continues to deny the fundamental rights of the Palestinians.”

An Israeli water conference in Venice is aimed at keeping the country in European spaces, but it was distinctly under-attended, and organizers inflated the numbers by putting fake names in a conference registry: Aaron Aaron, Tina Tina, Jeffy Jeffy and Yaw Yaw.

Efraim Halevy, former Israeli spy chief, defies Israeli government by saying that apartheid South Africa had no choice but to negotiate with Mandela, even though he was imprisoned for violent activity and the same holds for Marwan Barghouti, imprisoned Palestinian leader charged with terrorism.

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Jerusalem restaurant owners claim that members of the radical right group Lehava — the Hebrew acronym for Prevention of Assimilation in the Holy Land — are threatening them with violence if they employ Arabs, according to Shlomi Eldar at al-Monitor.

More than 80 world leaders attended Shimon Peres’ funeral today in Jerusalem with addresses from both President Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, both of whom spoke of the late president and prime minister’s work to achieve a lasting agreement with the Palestinians. Though hailed as Israel’s ambassador of peace, absent were Palestinian leaders in Israel’s government, detractors who remembered the statesman as the architect who “masterminded the occupation and settlement-building,” in the West Bank and Gaza.

The Iran deal is good for Israel in the near future, and Palestinians would stop terrorist attacks if there was a peace deal — an Israeli army intelligence capt touring US Jewish spaces contradicts PM Netanyahu