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The “Apolitical” Approach to Palestine’s Water Crisis

by Muna Dajani July 30, 2017

Gaza is Headed for a Deeper Political and Humanitarian Crisis

by Haidar Eid, Ayah Abubasheer

Don’t Historicize the Balfour Declaration: The Past is Still the Palestinians’ Present

by Yara Hawari

Though the international community has hailed the two-state solution since the early 1990s, it has become clear that Israel’s fragmentation of Palestinian people and territory over the past 50 years aims to make a sovereign Palestinian state impossible. While politicians explain this as a result of misunderstandings or missed opportunities between the two parties, the accurate explanation is that Israel does not, in fact, desire two states. This outcome would undermine its goal of conserving preferential rights for Israeli Jews in the territory under its control. Numerous progressives now argue that one state with equal rights for all is the logical alternative. While such a binational state may be just, it is highly unlikely, especially in the short to medium term.

The Palestine State Project in Question

by Nadia Hijab

Mahmoud Abbas raised the Palestine flag at the UN just as a Palestinian revolt against Israel’s decades-long denial of rights spread from Jerusalem to the rest of the occupied territory and Israel itself. Al-Shabaka Executive Director Nadia Hijab examines the already serious limits state and civil society face in making the Palestine State project a reality.

The “Apolitical” Approach to Palestine’s Water Crisis

Gaza is Headed for a Deeper Political and Humanitarian Crisis

Don’t Historicize the Balfour Declaration: The Past is Still the Palestinians’ Present

Tracking the Trends of the Palestinian Cause Since 1967

The Palestinian Authority Security Forces: Whose Security?

Researching Palestinian Refugees: Who Sets the Agenda?

Talking Palestine: What Frame of Analysis? Which Goals and Messages?

Focus On: Palestinian Refugees

The Palestinian Authority: Unsettling Status Quo Scenarios

Persistent Failure: World Bank Policies for the Occupied Palestinian Territories

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