Axios, August 29 Event The Trump administration announced Friday, August 29, that it won’t issue visas to senior Palestinian officials who wish to travel to New York to attend the UN General Assembly in September, and will revoke visas that were previously granted. A State Department official confirmed that applied to Palestinian President Mahmoud AbbasContinue reading “U.S. blocks Palestinian president from attending UN General Assembly”
Tag Archives: Palestinian Authority
Fragmenting a nation: Israel’s enduring pursuit of Palestinian disunity
Israel is aggressively implementing plans to shape Palestine’s future and the broader region, sculpting its vision for the ‘day after’ its genocide in Gaza. The latest, bizarre iteration of this strategy proposes fragmenting the occupied West Bank into so-called ’emirates,’ starting with the ’emirate of Hebron.’ This unexpected twist in Israel’s protracted search for alternativeContinue reading “Fragmenting a nation: Israel’s enduring pursuit of Palestinian disunity”
A Deal for Gaza
At the beginning of this week, it looked like Gaza would face a perpetual war if Israel and Hamas did not sign a hostage deal to end the conflict. The US president used his final foreign policy speech in office to announce that the war could soon be brought to an end after months ofContinue reading “A Deal for Gaza”
Appropriation of more than 12 sq. km of land in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley
Settlement expansion and settler violence have played a major role in undermining Palestinian hopes for a state. (Reuters) Israel recently announced the appropriation of more than 12 sq. km of land in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley, declaring it “state land.” The move follows other appropriations of land in February and March. The recent announcementContinue reading “Appropriation of more than 12 sq. km of land in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley”
Gaza War and Challenges to the Needed Solution
The Gaza War – or Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza – has been raging for three months now. The intensity of this war and the range of ways it could develop have brought the Palestinian question back to the forefront of pressing regional issues, and has thus had ramifications for the region and the interestsContinue reading “Gaza War and Challenges to the Needed Solution”
A deadly war taking place in Gaza
Three important observations by the Hamas-Israeli conflict.
The Strategist: The post-American Middle Eastern order
Originally posted on Levant's Agora:
By Mark Leonard. May was a busy month for diplomats in the Middle East. Twelve years after the Arab League suspended Syria’s membership, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was officially welcomed back into the fold. As the protracted war in Yemen shows signs of winding down, Iran and Saudi Arabia…
The Strategist: Prospects for Israeli–Palestinian peace more remote than ever
Originally posted on Levant's Agora:
By Carl Bildt. A massive double crisis is emerging between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. Both Israel and the Palestinian Authority are confronting internal challenges that have cast shadows over their futures, and fast-rising tensions between the two sides are approaching a breaking point. In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu…
Mondoweiss: The Palestinian Authority is a figleaf for Israeli apartheid. Disband it.
Originally posted on Levant's Agora:
By Tom Suarez. At this point in history, the Palestinian Authority serves only to empower the two-state ruse until Zionism has achieved its singular, century-old goal: a race state in all of historic Palestine. Three decades ago, the Palestinian Authority, advertised as a five-year interim body that would give…
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