Expect nothing from Trump
While the US continues to turn a blind eye to settlement expansion, the international community and the EU in particular are left with the responsibility of ensuring that everyday life in the Palestinian enclaves does not collapse. Time for a rethink, argue policy analysts Sam Bahour and Mousa Jiryis.
How Palestinians should respond to Trump’s ‘one state’
Palestinians must make clear that the sole prerequisite that is needed for a lasting peace is justice on their lands.
Trump stand on settlement encourages Israel’s land grab
With Trump in office, Israel is encouraged to speed up its colonisation of the Palestinian territories.
The seeds of a new special relationship: US voices for justice in Palestine
While the ideological compatibility between Trump and Netanyahu will improve ties between the two leaders, it will have long-standing implications on US approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
More Israeli settlements will mean fewer Palestinians
Away from the headlines about settlements and the threat they pose to the two-state solution, there is little information about how settlement construction affects the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation and the cumulative effect over almost 50 years.
Possible US embassy move to Jerusalem exposes facade of two-state negotiations
Rumors and speculation are circulating about when and if the Trump administration is going to announce its decision to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv, where it is currently located, to Jerusalem. Such a move would be a dangerous and irresponsible provocation that contravenes longstanding U.S. policy by legitimizing Israel’s illegal annexation of East Jerusalem.
Palestinians sceptical about Moscow reconciliation deal
A meaningful unity requires a serious engagement in restructuring and reinventing the Palestinian political system.
Charade of Israel’s democracy
Israel Advances New ‘Facebook Bill’, Threatening Free Speech
The Israeli Knesset passed last week a first reading of a controversial new bill that would allow Israeli courts to order social media companies to remove online content it deems “inciting”.
