Analysis on Palestinian history, Middle East politics, and the ongoing struggle for justice.
December 27, 2014 at 3:41 pm by Jamal Kanj jamalkk On January first, it will be 50 years since the start of the modern Palestinian revolution; and on the 15th it will be 10 years since Mahmoud Abbas was first, and last, elected as the President of the Palestinian Authority
December 8, 2014 at 11:37 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and head of Yisrael Beitenu party published on November 28 a new manifesto outlining the party’s outlook for Israel. The updated platform entitled “Swimming Against the Stream” posted on Lieberman’s Facebook page demanded Israeli Arabs
November 22, 2014 at 1:58 pm by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Following the historical recognition by the Swedish government, British legislators voted overwhelmingly on a non-binding resolution urging their government to recognise the state of Palestine. Ireland’s Seanad and Spain’s parliament passed similar motions on October 22 and November 18 respectively.
September 19, 2014 at 4:01 pm A Palestinian women at a protest in Gaza on 30 March 2019 [Mohammad Asad / Middle East Monitor] by Jamal Kanj jamalkk It goes without saying that Gaza has taught the Israeli military a new lesson: the days of swift Israeli wars are over.
September 6, 2014 at 11:44 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Animals: was my instinctual response to photos of Syrian soldiers being executed by members of the so-called Islamic State (IS). The same gut feelings two days earlier to the news of the killing of American journalist James Foley in cold
July 12, 2014 at 4:13 pm by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Scene one: Disappearance of three illegal Jewish settlers in Hebron. Israel closes the West Bank, demolishes homes of supposed kidnappers, nonstop air raids on Gaza, kills two dozen Palestinians and imprisons more than 600 mostly newly released prisoners. Scene two:
May 15, 2014 at 9:42 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Outgoing Israeli president Shimon Peres talked in a recent interview about a peace agreement he reached with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in 2011. According to Peres, the Israeli prime minister rejected the draft understanding telling him “to wait a few
March 24, 2014 at 3:43 pm by Jamal Kanj jamalkk Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon articulated publicly what Israeli leaders say privately: Give us your tax money, weapons and your veto power but “leave us alone.” He called the US peace efforts “not worth the paper it is printed on,”
January 25, 2014 at 4:18 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk In America, the Jewish community’s Anti-Defamation League (ADL) promotes racial integration, equality and multiculturalism within American society. The ADL and other Jewish organisations work closely at local levels with school administrators across the US to educate young children about the
January 25, 2014 at 4:01 am by Jamal Kanj jamalkk It is ironic that Western nations seeking to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions are the same countries which sold nuclear technology to Tehran in the first place. Iran has worked with the US and Western nations since the 1950s to develop
