Palestine

Submitted by Serban V.C. Enache… Paula Slier did a great interview with Palestinian PM Mohammad Shtayyeh in Ramallah to discuss negotiations between Palestine and Israel. Slier asked some tough questions and Shtayyeh gave equally tough answers. The Palestinian PM said that the US, given its strategic military alliance with Israel, is not an honest peace…

As`ad AbuKhalil analyzes the calculations behind the recent attacks, which the Western press covered with the usual lack of realism.  By As`ad AbuKhalilSpecial to Consortium News There are two realities about Israel in the world: one projected by Western media, and the other suffered by its victims.  The first has no connection to any reality,…

It is difficult to imagine how the Trump administration could have not given Israel the green light to carry out these attacks as part of the U.S. maximum pressure campaign against Iran, writes Giorgio Cafiero. By Giorgio CafieroSpecial to Consortium NewsIraq has felt the heat from escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran this summer…

Trump and Netanyahu thought they were pulling a fast one on two U.S. congresswomen, but it has blown up in their faces, as Marjorie Cohn explains. During Congress’s August recess, a group of 41 Democratic and 31 Republican congressmembers traveled to Israel on a delegation sponsored by American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). AIPAC subsidizes…

On Thursday August 8, 2019 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a refugee settlement near the West Bank Beit El and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas visited the neighboring camp of Jalazone. His arrival to the refugee camp was to pose for pictures and meet with the residents of this fairly autonomous camp. It…

On Thursday August 8, 2019 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a refugee settlement near the West Bank Beit El and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas visited the neighboring camp of Jalazone. His arrival to the refugee camp was to pose for pictures and meet with the residents of this fairly autonomous camp. It…

In this Duran article, Seraphim Hanisch writes: […] many Palestinians may see a light of hope in rhetoric from Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar. And to be sure, sometimes what they say is very accurate. To give these two ladies credit, especially Ilhan Omar, never has the nature of what is going on in Israel with regard to Palestine been as…

As most readers of The Duran are painfully aware of, the United States has executed a policy toward Israel that has been painted as “a great relationship with our closest Middle East ally”, but which often in reality exposes the US as something of a proxy to the wishes of the Israeli leadership. The actions of…

As things stand, the EU prohibition on relocating embassies to Jerusalem will fall on Nov. 1, writes Craig Murray. Brexit could open the way for a U.K. embassy in Jerusalem. (Christoph Scholz, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons) By Craig MurrayCraigMurray.org.uk Following U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton’s talks with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his…

August 19, 2019 5:54 PM ET A CNN panel Monday afternoon got seriously heated as The Atlantic’s Peter Beinart and National Review’s Rich Lowry clashed over Israel and Palestine following a press conference from Democratic Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who were recently denied access to the Jewish state. The debate began as Beinart…