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A famous gesture kick-started hopes of peace in the Middle East. But today, the idea of a two-state solution seems further away than ever before.
On Sept. 13, 1993, the world watched as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat shook (...)
On 13 September 1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasir Arafat signed the Oslo Accords at a White House ceremony officiated by United States President Bill Clinton. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of this agreement, and take stock (...)
The Oslo Accords were a historic event. But nearly thirty years on, no one uses them to talk about the situation in Palestine. There is no longer any talk of the “peace process” or the “quartet”, as was the norm in the 1990s and 2000s, so far have things moved away from the hopes raised by (...)
What would you say if the notorious racist and anti-semite prime minister of Hungary Victor Orban accused Einstein of … anti-semitism? And Hanna Arendt as well? Together with the most iconic author of Holocaust literature Primo Levi? Unimaginable and unrealistic? Not at all. On the contrary, (...)
On the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba (‘Catastrophe’), Sarah Peterson reviews the tortured history of modern Palestine.
Nakba followed the UN partition of Palestine on 29 November 1947, the war of 1947-9, the withdrawal of British troops on 14 May 1948, and the declaration of the state of (...)
Aftermath of the Deir Yassin massacre, April 9, 1948.
THE ISRAELI ELECTION on April 9, 2019 will coincide with the anniversary of the massacre of the Arab village of Deir Yassin, a turning point in the mass flight of Palestinians during the 1948 war (the Nakba, or catastrophe). According to (...)
25 years after the Oslo Accords, the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians is at a standstill. Gilbert Achcar in an interview with L’Orient-Le Jour gave some clues to understanding the turn of events since the Oslo agreements.
25 years after the Oslo Accords, the peace process (...)
The bloody events in Gaza, between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers, are based on the vision of the history of the two peoples.
When is the Nakba from 1948? In the past, as most Israelis implicitly think? or in the future, as implicitly thought by many Palestinians and Arabs? The (...)
Ethan Ackelsberg makes the case, using historical and contemporary evidence, that Israel is an apartheid society, existing in defiance of international law.
THE ETHNIC cleansing of Palestine’s indigenous Arab population is well established, thanks to the work of Palestinian scholars such as (...)
For seventy years, Israeli violence has permeated every aspect of Palestinians’ lives. Once again, Palestinians are resisting.
On May 14,1948, seventy years ago, Israel issued its “declaration of independence.” Since then, every May 15 has been Nakba Day, when Palestinians mark the ethnic (...)
Israelis considered George Habash a cruel airline hijacker, but Eli Galia’s new Hebrew-language book shows that the PFLP chief’s views would have been better for the Palestinians than Arafat’s compromises
George Habash was Israel’s absolute enemy for decades, the embodiment of evil, the (...)
Poster of Lenin celebrating The Decree on Peace
November 2017 marked the centenary of two of the most decisive events in the twentieth century: the Bolshevik-led revolution in Russia and the Balfour Declaration in Britain. The Russian Revolution was executed by the Bolsheviks in the name of (...)
Review of Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror by Gary Fields. University of California Press, 404 pp., $29.95 (paper).
Between 1922 and 1925 my great-uncle, the journalist Najib Nassar, rode on horseback throughout Mandate Palestine and the newly created country of (...)
A complementarity between the anti-semitic desire to get rid of the Jews and the Zionist project of sending all Jews to Palestine seems ignored, for example, by Theresa May.
Close to a year ago, on 12 December of last year, PM Theresa May addressed the Annual Business Lunch of the (...)
A complementarity between the anti-semitic desire to get rid of the Jews and the Zionist project of sending all Jews to Palestine seems ignored, for example, by Theresa May.
Close to a year ago, on 12 December of last year, PM Theresa May addressed the Annual Business Lunch of the (...)
ON NOVEMBER 2, 1917, the British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour writes to Lord Walter Rothschild, who was a major figure in the Zionist movement:
"Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of (...)
DONALD TRUMP’S SPEECH to the regional potentates and dictators assembled for the occasion in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was generally acclaimed as eminently presidential, and rightly so. That is to say, it was firmly in the tradition of U.S. presidential addresses on Middle East policy: utterly (...)
June 5, 2017 is the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which culminated in the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, among other transformations of regional politics. The post-1967 occupation and its consequences (...)
On the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War Moshé Machover looks at the background and consequences.
Much has been written about the sequence of events leading to the June 1967 Six-Day War: the series of missteps through which Egypt’s president Gamal Abdel Nasser stumbled into the fatal trap (...)
After the “The McMahon-Hussein correspondence: phase one of the partition process” and “The Sykes-Picot agreements – phase two of the partition process”, this article is the sequel of the roundup, presenting The Balfour Declaration, in context and detail.
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’His Majesty’s (...)
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