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Will the Trump Administration Shift U.S. Policy in Favor of Palestine?
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Go topBy Rashid Khalidi The New Yorker With the advent in Washington of an Administration with radical new priorities regarding Israel, and a disdain for Palestinian rights, Palestine is facing a daunting reality. In recent years, ascendant political currents in America and Israel had already begun to merge. We have now reached the point where envoys … Continued
Palestinian human rights defender from the city of Hebron, Issa Amro [Photo courtesy of Issa Amro By Issa Amro Al Jazeera My name is Issa Amro. I’m a 36-year-old Palestinian human rights defender from the city of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where I work with an organisation called Youth Against Settlements. While we … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer As President Barack Obama completes his second term in office, his legacy and impact become clearer among his constituents. While campaigning for the position, President Obama made several promises that he was unable to keep, such as closing Guantanamo Bay and bringing home all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. He was … Continued
By Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada Undercover video shot by Al Jazeera reveals the lengths to which some leaders of the UK’s influential pro-Israel networks will go to discredit their critics. Part three of The Lobby, broadcast on Friday night, shows the chairperson of Labour Friends of Israel falsely claiming a Palestine Solidarity Campaign supporter … Continued
By Patrick Wintour The Guardian The major powers – with the exception of Britain – sent out a warning to Israel and Donald Trump on Sunday not to abandon the hope of a two-state solution to end the Arab-Israeli conflict and urged all parties to disassociate themselves from voices that reject such a diplomatic solution … Continued
by James J. Zogby The Arab American Institute In just a matter of days, President-elect Donald Trump will have to decide on whether or not to make good on his promise to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. As we approach Inauguration Day, liberal and conservative commentators, alike, have offered … Continued
By Ali Al-Arian Al Jazeera Like something out of a dark comedy where you are forced to live each day over and over again, yet another Middle East peace initiative has reconvened, promoting renewed confidence in the ever-elusive two-state solution. If John Kerry’s recent speech was considered a eulogy of the two-state settlement, this latest … Continued
Aymara women march holding posters with a message that reads in Spanish; “Bolivia condemns genocide in Gaza. Palestine, resist” during a rally against Israel’s offensive in Gaza, in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Picture by Juan Karita AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved. By CECILIA BAEZA OpenDemocracy This past October, Chile’s political right … Continued
By Philip Weiss Mondoweiss A new Pew Research Center poll from January 4-9 of American views on foreign policy shows that Democratic Party sympathies for Israel are crashing, down ten points in the last 9 months, from 43 percent to 33 percent. That’s a 23 percent crash. If this was the stock market, Israel would … Continued
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands next to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump during their meeting in New York on Sept. 25, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/Government Press Office/Reuters) By Ishaan Tharoor The Washington Post In his last meaningful act as America’s top diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry will go to Paris for an international conference on Sunday … Continued
By Johnathan Lis Haaretz The Knesset Interior Committee on Wednesday initially approved a bill that would bar the issuing of entry visas or residency permits in Israel to foreign citizens who call for a boycott of Israel or the settlements. Entry would be barred in two cases, the first being if the foreign citizen knowingly … Continued
By Brendan Gauthier Salon.com The Obama administration’s recent less-than-entirely-submissive relationship with Israel may have cost the outgoing president a free locker at a swanky Maryland country club. The U.S. delegation’s abstention in a U.N. vote to halt Israeli settlements in the West Bank last month effectively ruined Obama’s chance of taking advantage of what was originally intended to be a “back-door thing … Continued
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