The plan was drafted by a team allegedly led by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, who has no real government position and is a far right wing Israel nationalist, in consultation with the far right wing Likud government of Israel, headed by PM Binyamin Netanyahu. The Palestinians declined..…
That split may be very meaningful in American and Jewish politics, but it is not going to affect Palestinians very much. . Palestinians are living as second-class citizens and worse under one government that controls all of Israel and Palestine, and their battle is for equal rights..…
As such, there is no way to understand this plan or look at the attached conceptualized map without calling it by its name: apartheid, designed and sanctioned by the U.S. government. . Palestinians make their way through an Israeli checkpoint to attend Friday prayers in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa..…
Like many other Jews, we see it as our moral responsibility to challenge the legitimacy of a situation in which a modern state discriminates against Palestinians and non-Jews using overwhelming political, economic, and military power to oppress them. . Recently, the Israeli government and..…
The scheme offers far less than provisions of earlier plans offered the Palestinians. . Former US Middle East peace envoy/Afghanistan Commander/Brookings head General John Allen slammed Trump’s scheme, saying: . ..…
Various explanations for this failure are possible, but the main one is the colonial nature of the Zionist project, which has fuelled a feeling of superiority over ‘indigenous’ peoples and encouraged Israeli leaders’ de facto refusal to recognise the Palestinians’ equality and right to..…