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Why is Gaza so central to the Palestinian struggle?
The history of Gaza illuminates how the tiny enclave has long encapsulated Palestinian identity — and why it is now the focal point of a regional crisis.
By
Anne Irfan
January 2, 2024
The permit regime is Oslo’s enduring legacy. It must be abolished
The separation logic enshrined by the Oslo Accords birthed a cruel system of Israeli control, whose security justifications collapsed into openly racist ones.
By
Yael Berda
September 21, 2023
‘I told Arafat: Israel will promise you an inch and not give you a millimeter’
Reflecting on the Oslo Accords 30 years later, veteran politician Hanan Ashrawi recounts her arguments with PLO leaders during the negotiations, and explains why Israel's political crisis is opening cracks in the occupation.
By
Meron Rapoport
September 13, 2023
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The colonial idea that built the Palestinian Authority
Israel tried for years to create a body that would control Palestinians on its behalf. It was the liberation movement's leaders that helped it succeed.
By
Tariq Dana
July 25, 2021
The PA stumbled from one failure to another. Has its reckoning arrived?
The decades-long decline of the Fatah party has proven to Palestinians that the PA is an obstacle, not a vehicle, for their national liberation.
By
Majeed Malhas
July 13, 2021
The transformative legacy of Mr. Status Quo
Benjamin Netanyahu made everybody believe there could never be an alternative to the so-called 'status quo.' His departure should serve as a reminder that one always exists.
By
Noam Sheizaf
June 13, 2021
‘Equality’ is finally breaching Washington’s debate on Israel-Palestine
A policy paper centering equal rights for both peoples marks a radical break from the Israel-centric discourse of mainstream U.S. think tanks.
By
Mitchell Plitnick
May 6, 2021
Saturday Night Live tells the uncomfortable truth about Israel
Michael Che's joke about Israel's COVID-19 vaccination campaign pokes fun at a regime that does little to hide its supremacist policies.
By
Edo Konrad
February 22, 2021
‘What did the world give us?’ A letter to President Biden from Nabi Saleh
I used to defend the two-state solution as the Palestinians' path to liberation. But after three decades of the Oslo Accords, 'peace' itself is yet to be born.
By
Bassem Tamimi
January 27, 2021
Why Palestinians stopped listening to their leaders at the height of a pandemic
For years, Palestinians had been losing trust in their leadership for its corruption and failure to end the occupation. Then COVID-19 hit.
By
Yara M. Asi
January 20, 2021
Yes, Israel should be providing COVID vaccines for Palestinians
Israel was quick to receive international praise for its vaccination efforts, even though it is shirking responsibility for millions of Palestinians under its control.
By
Ran Goldstein
January 7, 2021
No dispossessions left to count
It is the Palestinian refugee who reminds us, as we reckon with our altered reality, that yearning for what we once knew is hardly an act of obstinacy. It is what sustains us. And for many, the cost of abandoning this self-consolation is just too high.
By
Samer Badawi
December 29, 2020
The Palestinian leadership chooses captivity
Devoid of strategy, the PA has returned to its role as a subcontractor of the occupation. Luckily, the richest source of Palestinian power is in its grassroots.
By
Amjad Iraqi
November 21, 2020
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