Wed, May 16, 2012

Time to Celebrate Checkpoint Apartheid

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

Israeli military-controlled checkpoints have been the bane of Palestinian travel since the early 1990s when Israel began establishing them throughout the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip as a means to prevent and control Palestinian movement.

According to the latest comprehensive survey

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How Thomas Friedman Gets Palestine Entirely Wrong

Posted 2 years, 8 months ago

For years Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman has traipsed around the Middle East with a golf bag on his shoulder and a moustache full of witty catechisms about the region’s problems and their solutions. Two recent op-eds continue this trend, inspired by a recent trip to the West Bank that…

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Fateh’s Sixth Conference: The Wrap Up

Posted 2 years, 8 months ago

Facing declining street popularity and internal leadership feuds, the historic Palestinian nationalist party, Fateh, finally convened its Sixth Conference in the movement’s 45-year history. Beginning on August 4, 2009 – fifteen years after it was initially supposed to take place – the…

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