There is an ongoing, but hidden, Israeli war on the Palestinians which is rarely highlighted or even known. It is a water war, which has been in the making for decades. The recent protests in the West Bank village of Beita are the latest example, where Palestinians are demanding land rights, water rights and basic human rights.
The politics of the Olympics is unlike daily politics. Indeed, it is about something profoundly deeper, related to identity, culture, national struggles for liberation, equality, race and, yes, freedom.
By calling an ice cream company ‘terrorist’ for simply adhering to international law, Israeli President Isaac Herzog revealed the absurdity of the official Israeli strategy to counter the BDS movement.
For Israel, the future of Jewish majority – read: supremacy – is dependent on the Jewish population remaining larger than that of Palestinian Arabs. For this reason, Israel is likely to delve even deeper into the abyss of apartheid.
It was not Naftali Bennett or Avigdor Lieberman who finally dethroned Benjamin Netanyahu, but the Palestinians themselves.
The 11-day Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip fundamentally altered Israel’s relationship to the Palestinian Resistance, in all of its manifestations.
The Palestinians have risen. It is time to rally behind them.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ April 30 decision to postpone elections, which would have been the first in 15 years, will deepen Palestinian division and could potentially signal the collapse of the Fatah movement, at least in its current form.
Once more, the holy month of Ramadan arrives while its tragedies are still festering, this time a surge in coronavirus cases in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Following Israel’s fourth election in two years, Benjamin Netanyahu’s base is more vulnerable and more extreme than ever before. But this time a coalition with Arab parties could tip the scales.