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World attention has been focusing on the Palestinian revolt against Israel’s military occupation. Meanwhile, plans were reportedly still going ahead for an Israeli release of frequencies required for long-awaited 3G and even 4G systems and services. Al-Shabaka analysts Nur Arafeh, Wassim Abdullah, and Sam Bahour provide an incisive account of Israeli obstacles to the Palestinian sector’s development that have led to hundreds of millions in direct losses and lost opportunities.

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.

Farming Palestine for Freedom

by Samer Abdelnour, Alaa Tartir, Rami Zurayk

For Palestinians, agriculture is more than a source of income or an economic category in budgets and plans. It is tied to the people’s history, identity, and self-expression, and drives the struggle against Israel’s Separation Wall. In this brief, Lebanese activist, author, and agronomist Rami Zurayk joins Al-Shabaka Policy Advisors Samer Abdelnour and Alaa Tartir to tackle the almost spiritual significance of the land to the Palestinians and the deliberate Israeli efforts to break the link between farmers and their crops. Click below for the full brief or read the executive summary.

Palestinian Oral History as a Tool to Defend Against Displacement

The “S” in BDS: Lessons of the Elbit Systems Campaign

Threats to Human Rights Defenders: How Far Will Israel Go?

Obama’s Last Gasp on Palestine-Israel

The ICC and Palestine: A Case of Doubtful Justice

BDS: Discussing Difficult Issues in a Fast-Growing Movement

Which Jerusalem? Israel’s Little-Known Master Plans

Palestinian Political Disintegration, Culture, and National Identity

Palestinian Refugees From Syria: Stranded on the Margins of Law

The Joint List in Israel’s Elections: Palestinians in from the Cold?

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