New report from Yesh Din & Emek Shaveh: Appropriating the Past
Israeli human rights group Yesh Din and the archaeologists at Emek Shaveh have released a new report on how Israel is using archaeology to entrench…
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New B’Tselem report: Restrictions on Palestinians Living in the Shadow of the Beit El Settlement
From FMEP grantee B’Tselem, a collection of testimonies from Palestinians living in Al-Jalazun Refugee Camp in the West Bank on how a neighboring Israeli settlement…
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The Palestinian Authority’s security forces don’t protect Palestinians
Alaa Tartir from Al-Shabaka has a new policy brief on how the Palestinian Authority’s security forces are subcontractors for Israel’s occupation of the West Bank:…
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Palestinian president Abbas criticized for attending Shimon Peres funeral
The passing of former Israeli president Shimon Peres, the last of Israel’s founding generation of statesmen, has prompted an avalanche of eulogies from the international…
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B’Tselem: we won’t cooperate with Israeli military investigations
Amid the recent coalition shake-up in Israel, in which ultra-hawk Avigdor Lieberman joined the government as defense minister, an important story did not receive the…
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The Shrewd Politics of Barghouti’s Plan to ‘Free Palestine’
The Times of Israel reported on Monday that jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has a plan to team up with Hamas and Islamic Jihad and force Israel out of…
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No, Abbas didn’t just disavow the two-state solution
On Sunday, a right-wing Israeli group posted a video purporting to prove that Abbas “rejects Israel’s legitimacy in any borders.” A 30-second clip of a…
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Zomlot: “We are in limbo”
In a talk sponsored by FMEP and the Middle East Institute last Friday, Palestinian Ambassador-at-large Husam Zomlot expressed the frustration many Palestinians feel at the…
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Israel’s Relations With the Arab Gulf States Won’t Warm Until the Occupation Ends
Settling disputes between allies is key to presenting a united front against adversaries. That’s why it has long been in the interests of the…
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Right wing votes drive Netanyahu’s moves against the Palestinian Authority
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s headline-grabbing plans to address Congress have dominated the news cycle for nearly a month. But there’s a far more consequential…