Israel has just approved a plan to double the roughly 25,000 settlers on the occupied Syrian Golan heights. Because Biden refused to reverse Trump’s decision on the illegally-acquired territory. And because leftwing Meretz, a government coalition party, went along too, saying the matter was “complicated.” Only Ahmad Tibi says the truth: the Golan belongs to Syria.
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Despite unbearable conditions under Israeli siege, youth from the Gaza Strip won many of the categories in this year’s prestigious Palestine National Music Competition. In seeking to explain this Ayman El-Hallaq writes, “Music, as far as I think, to such a group of Gazan children is more than a collection of melodies to be played on musical instruments; it is a way of survival, it has a healing effect as a treatment that soothes the injuries of life in Gaza.”
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Palestinian human rights activist Fadi Quran describes his detention by Homeland Security at the Dallas airport in October at the behest of the Israeli government as a supposed terrorist– a US lieutenant told Quran his hands were tied to interrogate Quran after an ally filed the claim. While Lara Friedman of the Foundation for Middle East Peace says the Biden administration will spend no energy on Palestinian rights.
“We and the Palestinians have lost an indomitable fighter, a courageous leader and a moral icon without equal,” says Africa4Palestine Board Member, Professor Farid Esack remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu who passed away on December 26 at the age of 90.
Former Israeli High Court of Justice Justice Menachem Mazuz says he left the Court last year because he could no longer lend legitimacy to Palestinian house demolitions, which he said reflect the barbaric principle of an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.