External Readings

External Readings
Who will lead the Palestinians? This is a question they must be allowed to debate and answer themselves Dana El Kurd
Feb 3, 2025
The current leadership is seen as either absent or illegitimate. A postwar plan must not simply repackage it Dana El Kurd is a researcher of Palestinian and Ar…
External Readings
Israel’s South Lebanon Buffer Zone Proposal Sparks Debate as Border Violence Erupts
Jan 27, 2025
Renewed clashes highlight long-standing disputes over troop presence and Hezbollah’s influence in southern Lebanon Clashes between the Israeli Defense Forces (…
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External Powers Eye Influence as Hamas and PA Vie for Control of Gaza
Jan 27, 2025
Regional players such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE are leveraging reconstruction efforts to exert influence, with Saudi Arabia emerging as a key mediato…
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Azmi Bishara: Israel must not be allowed to shed genocide label
Jan 25, 2025
The Director General of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies Azmi Bishara emphasized during the opening lecture of the Annual Palestine Forum in Doh…
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States & the EU must wake up to the illegality of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory
Jan 19, 2025 Ralph Wilde
Six months on from the ICJ ruling that Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territory is illegal, states & the EU are still in denial.
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UNRWA’s expulsion from Jerusalem will seal Israel’s illegal annexation
Jan 13, 2025Chris Gunness
In the last week of January, two Knesset bills ending Israel’s “cooperation” with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA), are scheduled to come in…
Policy Analysis
Seven Months of War on Gaza, Israel Is in International Distress
May 17, 2024Mtanes Shihadeh
The Israeli government has described the war on Gaza since last October as an “existential war and a second war of independence.” Israel’s official and public …
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Thanks to Gaza, European philosophy has been exposed as ethically bankrupt
Jan 18, 2024Hamid Dabashi
Palestine is today an extension of the colonial atrocities Cesaire cites in this passage. Habermas appears ignorant that his endorsement of the slaughter of Pa…
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West Bank’s settler violence problem is a second sign that Israel’s policy of ignoring Palestinians’ drive for a homeland isn’t a long-term solution
Nov 26, 2023Dana El Kurd
Israeli settlers, empowered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, have increased their attacks on and harassment of Palestinian rural c…
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This Israel has no future in the Middle East
Nov 24, 2023Marwan Bishara
Israel’s deliberate, industrial-scale murder of the Palestinian people under the pretext of “self-defence” won’t enhance its security or secure its future. Rat…
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Israel’s Central Bank Governor Tries to Assure International Markets
Nov 21, 2023Barhoum Jaraisi
Last October, at a conference of the International Monetary Fund in the United States, the Governor of the Central Bank of Israel Amir Yaron sought to reassure…
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Israel, Gaza, and the Mass Production of Myths for Mass Media
Nov 21, 2023Marwan Bishara
Why do supporters of Israel all repeat the same empty soundbites and tired arguments when talking about Palestine?During the recent “March for Israel” in Washi…
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The War on Gaza: The Policy of Silencing, Intimidating, and Persecuting Palestinians in Israel
Nov 20, 2023Mada al-Carmel – Arab Center for Applied Social Research
Since the start of its current war on Gaza, Israel has adopted a string of measures to silence and intimidate its Palestinian citizens, aiming to prevent them …
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Israel’s war crimes in Gaza are by design, not default
Nov 9, 2023Marwan Bishara
The gruesome scenes of death and destruction in Gaza are a reminder that for Israel, violence is not incidental, accidental or coincidental. It is part and par…
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The farce of post-Gaza Pax Americana in the Middle East
Nov 7, 2023Marwan Bishara
Since the Israeli army embarked on its bloody assault on Gaza a month ago, the Biden administration has dispatched its foremost naval strike force, including t…
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Pirates, emperors and the Middle East axes of evil
Nov 3, 2023Marwan Bishara
Watching the United States deploy two aircraft carriers and a major naval strike force to the Middle East to threaten nemeses and help Israel sow death and des…
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Arab leaders must walk the talk on Palestine
Oct 30, 2023Marwan Bishara
The response of Arab governments to Israel’s war on Gaza, like their response to its previous four wars on the besieged Palestinian enclave, has been feeble an…
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Fanatics vs generals: The strange Israeli rift over Gaza
Oct 27, 2023Marwan Bishara
The divisions between Netanyahu and his top generals will have far reaching consequences for Israeli society, but little impact on the fates of besieged Palest…
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Israel’s war of self-deceit
Oct 24, 2023Marwan Bishara
Having long embraced the dehumanisation of the Palestinians, Israeli society is filled with rage and the primordial drive for revenge over the killing of Israe…
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America is back to playing regional cop in the Middle East
Oct 16, 2023Marwan Bishara
As Israel wages genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza, the United States is back to playing regional cop in the Middle East. The Biden administr…

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