Palestine

Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet leader Mohammad Shtayyeh met on Wednesday with the new European Union representative to the Palestinian territories, Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, and again called on Europe to recognize “Palestine”. Shtayyeh also called on the European Union to fill the void resulting from the failure of the so-called…

A deal that is entirely unacceptable to one of its principal parties isn’t a deal at all. In the case of the US-proposed “Middle East peace plan” – unsurprisingly endorsed by the US and Israel and few others – everything about it is designed to sabotage peace and perpetuate conflict…

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 94% of Palestinians reject the Kushner Plan for Palestine, and two thirds of Palestinians ,according to a recent opinion poll, support the way in which President Mahmoud Abbas has tackled it. Abbas has cut off diplomatic relations and security cooperation with Israel and the…

Luxembourg has stepped up efforts to coordinate an EU reaction to the risk Israel will annex Palestinian territories in the West Bank. Its foreign minister, Jean Asselborn, hosted a dinner with eight other EU foreign ministers from Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Malta, Spain, Slovenia, and Sweden on the subject in…

By Iqbal Jassat | @ijassat | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Shortly after her visit to South Africa earlier this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government made a shocking announcement in defence of Israel’s horrendous record of serious human rights violations. Germany took the shameful step of undermining international…

Ronen Zvulun, Reuters Pool via APHistory suggests that any peace negotiation has only a small chance of succeeding, because agreement requires compromise, which in turn requires leaders who are both willing and able to make concessions and sell them to their respective publics. When it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict,…

History suggests that any peace negotiation has only a small chance of succeeding, because agreement requires compromise, which in turn requires leaders who are both willing and able to make concessions and sell them to their respective publics. When it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict, neither condition seems to exist.Read…

Read the list here After years of unexplained delays, the United Nations this week released a list of over 100 companies with ties to illegal Israeli settler colonies in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. In a statement released on Wednesday, the UN Human Rights Office identified 112 businesses profiting…

You are here Jo Bird addressing a meeting in 2018. (Labour Against the Witch Hunt)After grassroots outrage at her suspension, Palestine solidarity campaigner and left-wing Jewish Labour councilor Jo Bird is back in the race to be elected to UK Labour’s ruling national executive. The Electronic Intifada understands that Bird’s…

By Yousef Alhelou | – (Middle East Monitor) – An overdue report has finally been published by the UN Human Rights office which lists 112 companies benefiting from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Almost 100 of the companies are based in Israel, while the…