Tag Palestine

The new edition [of Israeli textbooks]  adds the Arab perspective, noting for the first time that many Palestinians were forced from their homes and became refugees after the winners of the war confiscated their land and barred their return. “Forced”…

Tony Blair, no longer PM of Great Britian, is now a special Middle East envoy backed by the US, EU, UN, and Russia charged with a mission to “stabilize” Palestine. I’m guessing his idea of stabilization means Palestinians will be…

An Israeli jet attacked the home of a Hamas politician because five Hamas militants were nearby. That the attack killed seven members of the politician’s family didn’t even rate an explanation or apology from Israel. Israel also said all Hamas…

500 troops, trained with US money crossed the border from Egypt with permission from Israel, to fight with Fatah against Hamas. Ludicrously, the US and Israel “have been trying to avoid the perception of taking sides in a conflict that…

Subtopia has an essay on the deliberately Orwellian and repressive checkpoints on the West Bank, plus photos by Khaled Jarrar of “the hardships such checkpoints create for the Palestinians” that were hung on fences outside the checkpoints.