Edward Said and the ‘rendezvous of victory’
Edward Said and the ‘rendezvous of victory’
Palestinians find inspiration in the first anti-apartheid movement and other struggles against settler colonialism in their call for...
The Power of Memory to Reclaim What was Lost
By Benay Blend
In the article “Invention, Memory, and Place,” the late Edward Said reflects on the question of collective memory: what is remembered, how, and...
Israel and the Palestinians: Architects of Their Own Destruction
by Alon Ben-Meir
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU. He teaches courses on international...
The New Colonizing Nations Fight Each Other to Control World Power
By Roger Van Zwanenberg
(Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction 1492 to 2020 Part 2: Transformation to Urban Industrial Capitalism and the path to Global War)
This...
Palestinian reconciliation? What’s driving Hamas and Fatah this time.
As Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank press for unity, the factions meet for talks in Cairo. Hamas is showing signs...
Western leaders betrayed Palestinians 70 years ago.
Palestinians will commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, their mass expulsion and dispossession 70 years ago as the new state of Israel...
Israel and the Palestinians: Architects of Their Own Destruction
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU. He teaches courses on international negotiation and...
A doomed Middle East Peace
A Doomed Middle-East Peace
Jul 14, 2020SHLOMO BEN-AMI
The late PLO chairman, Yasser Arafat, was right to reject the peace proposal made at Camp David 20...
Remembering the handover of ‘one Palestine, complete’
On this day in 1920, the first High Commissioner for Palestine, 1st Viscount Samuel, Herbert Samuel, was handed the administration of the country by...
TIMELINE OF PALESTINE’S HISTORY
This timeline spans more than two centuries to explain the dramatic chain of events that led to the establishment of a Jewish state in...