Read the full-text online article and more details about "When It Comes to Palestine and Israel, the US Simply Doesn't Get It" by Fisk, Robert - The Independent (London, England), October 4, 2008By FiskRobertrobert fisk
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He further criticized the political calculations behind opposing Palestine's full membership, suggesting, "If it is out of political calculation to oppose Palestine's full membership of the UN, it would be better to simply say ...
Views on Palestine-Israel and the Palestinians are often positioned as though there is “conflict” between two equal entities. As a result, people argue for a “balanced” or a “neutral” approach. Such logic masks the real dynamics of the situation and it denies the ethical challenges of ...
For 75 years, Palestinian women have demonstrated the highest levels of resilience in the face of Israel’s prolonged military occupation. Palestinian women have endured all forms of injustice, including detention, extrajudicial killings, and the many discriminatory laws imposed on them and their loved...
Between March 2020–September 2021, Israel imposed a “Coronavirus closure” at the Erez Crossing, the only crossing point between Israel and Gaza, thus restricting the movement of people and goods even further. Except for a small number of patients in need for a critical medical treatment, ...
“Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state,” writes one analyst, “is couched in the 1922 Mandate.”Footnote88 This claim fails not only because the Mandate for Palestine did not contemplate Jewish statehood, but also, and more fundamentally, because Britain never gained the territorial ...
Also in the meantime, lead an active life, whatever form that takes, personalize it. It will be different for different people – arts, sports, social groups, music, schooling or studies of some sort, or maybe simply getting out and walking around your neighborhood and getting to know people...
While there are Harvard University Police Department officers stationed around the outskirts of the protest, they have simply observed the protesters as they set up their encampment and did not make any attempts to prevent its construction.
Unfortunately, mass media is far from portraying the power imbalance that characterizes the conflict. Far too many news agencies utilize rhetoric that connotes an equal struggle on both sides. Or, especially in American media, audiences are simply presented Israel’s side with facile arguments for...