Hearts and Minds With Palestine
In this week’s piece for Souciant, a rundown of some of the effects of the surprisingly impactful Palestinian victory at the UN General Assembly.Filed under: Palestine, United Nations Tagged: Benjamin...
View ArticleIs Hamas Winning?
An edited version of this piece first appeared at LobeLog. When Israel, or any country, engages in armed conflict with a guerilla group, even if that group controls significant territory and...
View ArticleAbbas Moves Toward ICC After UN Failure
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has now moved a step closer to making good on its threat to go to the International Palestinian representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour Criminal Court (ICC) and bring...
View ArticlePreparing for a Post-Abbas Palestine?
On December 31, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas closed out a year of stinging defeats by signing on to 18 international accords. Included among these was the Rome Statute, the treaty that...
View ArticleTakeaways From the Israeli Election
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won his fourth election last night in surprising fashion. He outdistanced the polls, including the exit polls in the waning hours of voting and won a decisive...
View ArticleWhy is Ali Dawabsheh Dead? On Price Tag Attacks
Ali Saad Dawabsheh was only 18 months old when Israeli settlers who entered his village of Douma to carry out a so-called “price tag” attack took his life away by setting fire to his home. The crime...
View ArticleA Progressive Response To Saudi Crimes Begins, Not Ends, With Yemen
Donald Trump’s statements and actions are so blatantly awful, so thoroughly misguided and immoral, that he gets blasted from a spectrum of political commentators, from the far left all the way to...
View ArticleCriticism of Zionism is not anti-semitic, Facebook should make the distinction
Facebook is facing considerable pressure to treat the word “Zionist” as a proxy for Jew, and to police its use as it might do antisemitism. The fight to sway the social media giant has become a focal...
View ArticleUS lawmaker Gregory Meeks shows his true colours on Palestine
When Jamaal Bowman defeated Eliot Engel in a NY primary last year, there was some hope that the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee might be less hawkish on Israel-Palestine....
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