Palestine's status as a member of the International Criminal Court was resolved this year, opening the door for Palestinians to hold Israel accountable for war crimes, such as the 1948 Abu Shusha massacre documented here by Salman Abu Sitta and (...)
The last hundred years have witnessed the world's longest war against a people – a hundred years of the Palestinian people's struggle for freedom from colonialism in their own country and a hundred years of the destruction of Palestine and the (...)
My close encounter with Ariel Sharon came unexpectedly in the summer of 1955. In August 1955, I was packing my bag at my family's home in Khan Younis, preparing to return to my Cairo school after the summer holiday, when huge explosions shattered (...)
Israel's robbery of Palestinian property reaches new heights with Likud's latest illegal laws and subterfuges, writes Salman Abu Sitta*
While news headlines have been about demands for a freeze or suspension of Jewish settlements in the occupied (...)
Israel's policy towards the Palestinians was not only forged out of the experiences of European Jews at the hands of Nazi Germany, but it also replicates the brutality, writes Salman Abu Sitta*
Zionist practice in Palestine has always been to grab (...)
New exoduses could mean new beginnings. Tracing the Palestinians' path from being refugees to determining their own fate, Salman Abu Sitta* celebrates the tenacity of a people who refused to disappear
To Palestinians, as well as to an increasing (...)
The Geneva Accord was long ago scripted by Israeli Military Intelligence, writes Salman Abu Sitta*
The orchestrated media blitz, replete with approving noises made by those European and Arab politicians eager to be rid of Palestinian refugees, (...)
Salman Abu Sitta* refutes efforts and surveys that undermine the Palestinian right of return
For the Palestinians, the right of return to their pre-1948 homes is sacred. For the international community, the right of return is enshrined in (...)
Israel, not Iraq, holds that distinction of being the first country in the region to use weapons of mass destruction with genocidal intent. Salman Abu-Sitta* digs into a dark history
At a time when TV screens are filled with images of perceived (...)
From the 1948 Nakbah to events in the occupied territories today, Israel's aims and supporting myths have been remarkably similar, writes Salman Abu Sitta* -- to carry out the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by transferring the Arab population
What (...)
By Salman Abu-Sitta *
Who says Oslo is dead? The final status negotiations are well underway. Although it is only a dry-run for the real thing, carried out by a group of academics and aspiring politicians, it is a realistic blueprint of the future (...)