The painful truth is that the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas has already ceased to exist as a political body that holds much sway or relevance, either to the Palestinian people or to Abbas’ former benefactors, namely the Israeli and the American governments.So,

The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of an African American man, George Floyd, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers is, once more, shedding light on US-Israeli collaboration in the fields of security and crowd-contr

A 32-year-old man with the mental age of an eight-year-old child was executed by Israeli forces on May 30, while crouching behind his teacher near his special seeds school in the Old City of Jerusalem.The cold-blooded murder of Iyad Al Hallaq might not have received much attentio

Israel’s balancing act that allowed it to reap America’s unconditional and, often, blind support, while slowly benefiting from China’s growing economic influence and political prestige, is already floundering.Thanks to the heated cold war between the US and Chinese economic super

This time, we are told, it is different and that President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is absolutely serious about his decision to absolve his leadership from all previous agreements signed with Israel and the United States.But this time is not different, and Abb

On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the ‘shatat’, or diaspora, participated in the commemoration of Nakba Day, the one event that unites all Palestinians, regardless of their political differences or backgrounds.For years, social media has ad

‘Heinous racism,’ is how the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor described a recent decision by Lebanese authorities to bar Palestinian refugee expats from returning to Lebanon.Lebanon’s restrictions on its ever-diminishing population of Palestinian refugees is n

One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera.

Shortly after an agreement to form a “national emergency government” in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that ‘democracy’ in Israel has been ‘safeguarded’.But how is a deal that would grant Israel’s right-wing Prime Minis