Israel is currently facing a wave of violence unknown for more than a decade. Both unnamed and undefined, it has been characterized by bodies of Israelis lying in the street alongside bodies of Palestinian children who have been “neutralized” by…
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The prime minister, the sheikh, and the messiah(s)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is astonished and confused, Education Minister Naphtali Bennett is hurt and bewildered. How did it come to this? The present wave of protests and stabbings causing panic and horror in Israel was unexpected. How did an…
When will this become an Intifada?
The history of Palestinian political prisoners is replete with struggles that have claimed many victims but that have always had two characteristics: first, they expressed a collective decision, and second, their demands were focused on improving prison conditions. In these…
The Palestinian Facebook Movement: Can it take up the baton of revolution?
The popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world have also stirred Palestinian youth. After a long period in which Fatah and Hamas held a monopoly in the political sphere, a popular movement of young Palestinians is gaining wide support with its…
1987: The Revolution that Refuses to Die
On December 8, 1987, an Israeli truck collided with a Palestinian vehicle in the Gaza Strip. The vehicle carried eight workers returning from a day’s labor in Israel. Four of them were killed. Prima facie, this was just another unfortunate accident.…
Bil’in: (Partial) Triumph in a Political Vacuum
While the Israeli Occupation hardens and the Fatah/Hamas split deepens, a remote little village near Ramallah has celebrated a victory. This is Bil’in. It went to the Israeli High Court and won a change in the route of the Separation…
Interview with Hamas’ Muhammed Abu Tir
MUHAMMED Abu Tir, 55, has spent 25 years, all told, in Israeli prisons. He finished a term just recently. Without any doubt, he was a man with lots of time on his hands. No longer. We met him on a…
Abu Mazen’s Second Try
THE death of Yasser Arafat has aroused feverish activity in the arena of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As long as he was alive, time seemed to stand still. The oppression of the Palestinians went on at full force, while the diplomatic…
The Second Intifada: From Camp David to Chaos
Introduction The period of the second Intifada has been the most traumatic for the Palestinians since 1948. Today, as then, there is a question as to whether they can survive as a unified people on their land. Yet there is…