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Once the surveillance cameras of Palestinian shopkeepers in Bast Jerusalem's Shuafat neighborhood revealed the images of the Israeli abductors of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, the fabricated Israeli propaganda that the 16-year-old [...]

The Palestine Mental Health Network in Belgium has recently been established as a new organization, joining the longstanding UK-Palestine Mental Health Network and USA-Palestine Mental Health Network--representing the first such [...]

As the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who protested the massacres in Gaza retreat into inertia, hypnotized by news about the cease-fire and the Gaza reconstruction conference, [...]

Israeli politicians and spokespersons sound like roosters who think they are peacocks when they boast of 'the most moral army in the world,' its 'surgical strikes,' their wonderful 'Iron Dome' [...]

'I used to fly, but you broke my wings I and locked me back in my cage.' This was the reproach of a patient who had just recovered from a [...]

Yesterday morning while crossing the Qalandiya checkpoint to my way to work in Ramallah I 'earned' a traffic ticket. The police officer informed me that I had violated the right [...]

To any sane, civilized person of conscience, the symbolic and very real attack on America's economic and defense system and the mass killing of innocent people is a horrible human [...]

No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.--Article 17. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A few years ago, my family built a small apartment in the Jerusalem neighborhood of [...]

When I wrote recently that Israel uses security as an excuse for excessive violence, and that much of its treatment of Palestinians no less than part of the long-term strategy [...]

Keeping some people in and others out is nothing new. The crumbling Great Wall of China, built in 215 BCE evokes invading hordes sweeping down the hilly terrain which created [...]

I'm a walker. For me, walking is a combination of hobby and exercise. More than that, however, it is a healthy management of anger. I know this because I've experienced [...]

The news is out. Life is not fair and justice lies beyond us, not only in the courts, but in the choices we make. Ophar Rahoum, a 16-year-old Israeli, was [...]

Ten years ago, Palestinians left their homes to discover a new Israeli surprise--the checkpoint. The fact that these were not just small lean-tos for guards, but cement barriers squarely planted [...]

Among the most joyous moments of my childhood were days spent picking olives. I'm a city person, born and raised in Jerusalem but, like every Palestinian, I have a connection [...]

One cannot understand the recent incidents in which Palestinian Jerusalemites attacked and killed Jewish Israelis without taking into account the current and historical political contexts. Nor will simply judging and [...]

FEB. 11, 2009: One hour ago, at two o'clock in the morning, we awoke with a sense of horror. Around two dozen masked Israeli soldiers surrounded our building, setting off [...]

Aside from a few individual initiatives and such rare, fleeting phenomena as the new historians and refusenics, the 'Israeli peace camp' remains far from being a significant political movement, whether [...]

On May 15 of this year, the day Palestinians commemorated the 60th anniversary of their forceful expulsion from their homes, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that Palestinians will be [...]

PERHAPS BECAUSE THE present is so complex, my family refrains from narrating the troubles of the past. They might inadvertently have mentioned the work of my grandfather as a guardian [...]

What is happening in Gaza today is not a humanitarian crisis; rather, it is another Nakba, another war. Israel will continue to escalate its atrocities and intensify its siege in [...]

As world leaders met in Annapolis on Nov. 27, Palestinians demonstrated against the conference. It's not that the protesters don't want peace--they certainly weren't calling for death and destruction. They [...]

As Jewish Israelis celebrated the High Holy Days this past September, authorities tightened checkpoints around my hometown of Jerusalem. This meant that I, along with thousands of other Palestinians, frequently [...]

An elderly woman was brought to my public service doctor's office suffering from lack of sleep. Apparently demented, she had been hallucinating and sleepless for the past few weeks. Although [...]

When she learned her son had been 'martyred,' my patient told me, she 'started dancing like a slaughtered chicken.' This was no metaphor, I learned, but a factual description of [...]

For Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations next year, a national bird will be chosen for Israel to call its own. According to Israeli officials, 'This is part of the culture of [...]

For Palestinians facing a holiday season with empty pockets, barricaded villages and towns, and an intense internecine conflict, the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussain was yet another reason [...]

One cannot describe the sense of pain and shame over the latest Palestinian infighting between Fatah and Hamas militants. Clearly, the shutting down of any political dialogue--against the background of [...]

On the first day of the new academic year, and in response to a call by the Fatah-based Palestinian Teachers' Union, teachers in the occupied Palestinian territories launched a strike [...]

The two latest operations of Palestinian and Lebanese resistance groups against Israeli occupation forces--the 'distracted illusion' at Gaza's Karm Salem Entrance on June 25, and Hezbollah's 'truthful promise' on July [...]

Although the document drawn up by members of five separate Palestinian factions jailed in Israel's Hadarem prison was an attempt to 'preserve Palestinian unity'--indeed, its full title is 'The Palestinian [...]

On the agenda of the Middle East Quartet's May 9 meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York was the suggestion by Jacques Chirac to channel aid to Palestinians via an [...]

After nearly two months of unstinting but fruitless efforts to form a national unity government, newly appointed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh finally formed a cabinet comprising 24 Hamas activists [...]

Employees of the Palestinian Authority received their January salaries 10 days late. This is just the beginning of the financial troubles Palestinians are facing in the aftermath of the Jan. [...]

France's parliament has voted to uphold a law referring to the country's painful colonial past as 'a positive enterprise.' Although the law has received public attention only lately, when it [...]

Over a period of three weeks, depressed French suburbs with large immigrant Arab and African populations were the scene of intense riots. Although car-burning and civil unrest have been a [...]

The Popular Resistance Committees, a Fatah-derived group operating in the central and southern Gaza Strip, was quick to claim responsibility for the Sept. 7 assassination of former Palestinian security chief [...]

The July 27 execution of Raed Khalil Al Mughrabi, convicted of the 2001 killing of accountant Khalil Zmullt, marks the 13th official Palestinian execution since 1994. Even though President Yasser [...]

As expected, and despite all previous presidential assertions--verbal, visual and official--that elections for the Palestinian legislative council would be held on time, the scheduled July 17 poll has been postponed [...]

Jerusalem: a city built 5,000 years ago by the Yabousite Canaanites, demolished and rebuilt 18 times, home to dozens of civilizations--including the Pharaohs, the Hebrews, the Babylonians, the Persians, the [...]

Following the Feb. 8 Sharm el-Sheikh summit between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon the media were full of congratulations and fantasies of peace. Everyone seemed [...]

During President Yasser Arafat's hospitalization in France, just before his death, I travelled from Paris to Cairo to spend the end of Ramadan and the Eid holiday in an Islamic [...]

More than half the Palestinians population--53 percent--are children under the age of 17. The majority of Palestinians, therefore, consist of the community's most vulnerable members. Not only are they in [...]

Just 10 days after he called on France's 600,000 Jewish citizens to move to Israel 'immediately' to escape what he called 'the spread of the wildest anti-Semitism,' Prime Minister Ariel [...]

An international conference to consider 'One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel' was held June 23-25 at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Organized by The Collective for Peace in Palestine/Israel, the gathering [...]

The recent annihilation of Rafah is but another link in the chain of Israeli burglaries of Palestine. The intensive, heavy-handed targeting of high-ranking Palestinian political leaders, the not-so-long-ago destruction of [...]

A new 'hate wave' is crossing France following President Jacques Chirac's decision to ban Islamic headscarves from public schools, grant company executives the right to decide whether religious symbols can [...]

Various odd phrases are being used to describe the perfectly natural desire of Palestinians to procreate: 'demographic threat,' 'biological bomb,' 'fertility weapon,' and 'growth cancer' are just a sampling of [...]

The overwhelming and ceaseless atrocities of Israel's government leave most Palestinians with little opportunity to reflect on the moral aspect of our resistance. Most often our reactions to events are [...]

The latest round of hostilities, after 50 days of relative, uneasy calm in Palestine and Israel, aimed to extinguish the glimmer of hope still alive in the hearts of peace [...]