Ezra Nawi arrives to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, July 16, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Nawi gave his body, mind, and possessions to the most vulnerable Palestinians. This made him a threat to the Israeli regime — and its easiest prey.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Joint List party chairman Ayman Odeh talk during a vote at the Knesset on November 18, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

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After years of inciting against Palestinian citizens, Bibi does an about-face. Edo Konrad and Amjad Iraqi make sense of another election.
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Illustration by Nerian Keywan.

Let them take Mars

That the airspace doesn't belong to Palestinians, means the oxygen we breathe is something we steal from the powers trying to destroy us.
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Israeli troops fire tear gas at a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, Jan. 13, 2018. (Flash90)

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I used to defend the two-state solution as the Palestinians' path to liberation. But after three decades of Oslo, 'peace' itself is yet to be born.
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A smear campaign is ripping away funds from Palestinian farmers

Israel lobby groups are targeting the funding sources of a major Palestinian agricultural union — by dubiously claiming it has ties to 'terrorists.'
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Illustrative photo of Rabbi Arik Ascherman. (Oren Ziv)
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  4. 'What did the world give us?' A letter to President Biden from Nabi Saleh
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