Jerusalem embassy move
Jerusalem by the numbers: Poverty, demolitions, and exile, +972 Magazine
As nationalist Israelis celebrate the ‘unification’ of the city, when Israeli troops occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, a look at the data shows a far bleaker picture of life for Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents.
For Palestinians, US embassy move cements occupation status quo, Al Jazeera
“The Palestinian Jerusalemite today lives with a hundred sticks raining down his head,” Osama Barham, an activist in the city, told Al Jazeera.”That is to say, he is oppressed from all directions.”
Palestinians In Jerusalem Struggle To Maintain A Foothold In The City They Call Home, NPR
When the U.S. opens its new embassy in Jerusalem on Monday and endorses the city as the capital of Israel, it will also be endorsing a strange reality. About 38 percent of the city’s residents are not Israeli at all. They are Palestinian. And they want to establish their own capital in the city.
The Untold Story of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, Foreign Policy
How a U.S. presidential candidate found common cause with Israelis opposed to the peace process to pass a law that could now doom it.
Messianic U.S.-Israel Axis Showcased at Jerusalem Embassy Ceremony Is Gut-punch for Most American Jews, Ha'aretz
For American liberals, Jews and non-Jews alike, there is no more incriminating evidence of their distance from Netanyahu’s Israel and its steady veer toward the rabid right than Israel’s adoring embrace of a president who is seen as a clear and present threat to the enlightened values they cherish.
Gaza protests
Israeli army shoots dead dozens in Gaza's bloodiest day since 2014, +972 Magazine
Israeli military kills 58 Palestinians and wounds over 2,700 others in Gaza. Palestinians and Israelis across the West Bank protest in solidarity with Gaza and against the U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem.
‘We’re dying slowly in Gaza, it’s better to die along the fence trying to be free’, Local Call
In the days leading up to the culmination of the Great Return March, in which organizers expect masses to breach the Gaza border fence, we speak with three Gazans about what the protests have accomplished, what hope they carry, and where they have disappointed.
Nakba Day
70 Years of Nakba: Where Can Palestinians Go from Here?, Al-Shabaka
Al-Shabaka asked Palestinian analysts to propose a vision that would resonate with the greatest number of Palestinians – whether one-staters or two, refugees, exiles, citizens of Israel, or those under occupation and siege – and to map out some ways to get from here to there.
Seven decades of struggle: how one Palestinian village's story captures pain of 'Nakba', The Guardian
The 70th anniversary of ‘the catastrophe’ is approaching, when more than 700,000 Palestinians lost their homes in the wake of the creation of Israel. Farming families on the West Bank recount their struggle to survive.
FMEP Resources
FMEP Legislative Round-Up: May 14, 2018, ara Friedman
FMEP’s weey round-up of Midde-East reated activity on Capito Hi.
What We're Watching
Watch: Bernie Sanders Hosts a Live Town Hall on the Iran Deal, The Nation
FMEP’s Lara Friedman participated in the panel discussion.
Everyone is talking about the US Embassy move; Let's talk about the PEOPLE, ACRI
Is Jerusalem really the ‘undivided capital of Israel’ as the US and Israel claim?