Tens of thousands of men, women, elderly people and children have taken part in popular protests to affirm the Palestinian people's hold on their homeland and the right of refugees to return to the homes from which they were driven.
Once again, the (...)
Newspapers have recently publicized the arrest of a Palestinian girl named Ghada, who is only fourteen years old, during a visit to see her aunt in the town of Al-Issawiya. Ghada was arrested under the pretext of entering the Arab part of Jerusalem (...)
After two years and ten months have passed on its last meeting, the PLO's Central Council has convened recently although a considerable part of the previous council has not been executed yet.
This time the council has convened during the most (...)
It is totally unacceptable that some international officials continue saying that the situation in Palestine is but a dispute or a conflict between two parties whose responsibilities are equal and that some of them repeat Trump's sin in considering (...)
One of the most dangerous points to have been leaked from the so-called “Deal of the Century”, which the American negotiating team has been preparing, is the exclusion of Jerusalem from the suggested solution. Through this exclusion, they are (...)
Netanyahu's recent bragging reminds us of similar conceit displayed by Fukuyama when he announced the final victory of capitalism and the advent of what he called the “end of History” two and a half decades ago.
What are the signs of Israeli (...)
One day, History will acknowledge that the Balfour Declaration was a crime committed against the Palestinian people, against humanity and its values of civilization. A crime that paved the way for a series of other crimes, the most heinous of which (...)
It is painful and unfortunate that the Palestinian division has continued for more than ten years.
What is more unfortunate is that the length of the division period and the failure of reconciliation attempts have meant that the current (...)
Israel expelled the residents of Al-Sheikh Al-Jarrah in Western Jerusalem in 1948 and gave their homes to Jewish families.
The residents have been obliged to rent houses in which they are living now in the same neighbourhood according to a law that (...)
The triumph of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa is a chapter in a raging and continuous battle, in which the Palestinian people are engaged, in order to end the occupation and the racist apartheid regime. It is a long battle.
It is important to learn lessons (...)
More than three years ago, Gaza lived through an indescribable inferno due to criminal Israeli aggression, which resulted in the martyrdom of 2,250 people, including 590 children.
Gaza and its people stood fast, despite the sacrifices, the severity (...)
Israel's illegitimate diversion of the River Jordan was the main reason behind the rising the tensions that ended fifty years ago with Israel's launching the June 1967 aggression on Egypt, Syria and Jordan and occupying the remaining Palestinian (...)
He who has witnessed with us Jerusalem in the last three Fridays of the holy month of Ramadan can perceive the extent of Israeli hysteria towards the city, Al-Aqsa Mosque and Palestinians in general.
After 50 years of occupation and 50 years of (...)
Fifty years have passed since the Israeli army occupied the West Bank, including Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. Almost 70 years have passed since more than two thirds of the Palestinian people were displaced at the hands of Zionist (...)
Negotiations became the cover for Israeli expansionism, raising the number of illegal settlers from 111,000 in 1993 to more than 700,000 now.
The facts dispel all illusions. But the US president did not mention, in all his speeches in front of the (...)
One of the pretexts which were heard in justifying the weak participation of some people in backing the captives' hunger strike or national activities in general is the daily living concerns that preoccupy people's minds.
The majority of the people (...)
The total strike on Thursday, 27 April, reminded us of the first days of the first Intifada, especially that it comprised the whole of the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Sector.
On Friday, popular confrontations against occupation (...)
In early April, more than one thousand Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, headed by leaders Marwan Al-Barghouti, Ahmed Saadat, Hassan Yousef and many others, began an open-ended hunger strike in defence of their own and their people's dignity, (...)
Twenty-seven years have passed since Francis Fukuyama hastily described the triumph of capitalism as "the end of history", but now capitalist globalisation is in deep crisis. This crisis manifests as four sub-crises, which are as follows.
First, (...)
The whole region and the international sphere is flooded with suggestions aiming at exerting pressure on the Palestinian side while Netanyahu is attempting, through his usual machinations, to pass Israeli projects to gradually liquidate the (...)
While in Dostoyevsky's famous novel, the criminal returns to the crime scene, the recent law of banditry and new settlement crimes passed by the Israeli Knesset has the criminal repeating his crime without realising he is thus uncovering his (...)
After an eight-year delay and in its last days in power, the Obama administration has spoken what it has been silent about. We have said over and over again that occupation and settlements are squeezing the life out of any possibility of creating a (...)
If the new US administration decides to fulfill its promise to transfer the US embassy to Jerusalem it would be an accomplice with Israel in breaching international law, the UN Charter and the Geneva Conventions.
More than this it would constitute a (...)
Last Friday, we performed Friday prayers among the ruined houses in Qalandia with the homes' owners and those in solidarity with them.
Eleven buildings were destroyed in one night at the hands of the Israeli occupation army on the pretext of not (...)
Every time I accuse the Israeli prime minister of impudence, he becomes yet more impudent.
He reached a new level of impudence when he called demands for the removal of Israeli settlements on the West Bank, considered illegal in international law, (...)