Analysis: World Bank policies persistently fail Palestinians
To understand why they are so harmful, it is useful to deconstruct the policy recommendations in the World Bank’s latest growth report for the Palestinian territories.
Candidates ignore plight of Palestinians
“As for the Palestinian people, the task is to develop those sources of power that will impose the quest for freedom and rights on the U.S. policy agenda rather than wait for the ‘right’ U.S. president.”
For taxpayers, peace would be cheaper
Once again, the international community is presented with evidence that it is paying for Israel’s occupation.
Economic exploitation of Palestinians flourishes under occupation
“The Palestinian liberation struggle will have to be directed not just at Israel’s racist colonial regime but also the global neoliberal economic system that has thoroughly penetrated Palestine and corrupted irreparably the idea of a ‘state’ even before one is declared.”
What’s gone wrong at The Guardian?
Abunimah says that hiring Joshua Trevino, who endorsed the killing of Gaza flotilla members, is a worrying step for journalism.
Rethinking aid to Palestine
Foreign aid to Palestine is desperately in need of rethinking. Wittingly or not, external aid facilitates Israel’s occupation, enables an inept Palestinian leadership to survive, and subverts much of Palestinian civil society.
Murder of Arafat: How the Israeli Quintet Indicted Itself
Yasser Arafat may be dead, but for all intents and purposes he lives on and continues to be a thorn in Israel’s side.
Can Israel survive its 45-year occupation?
Israel’s occupation is proving its Achilles heel, but in ways one could not have imagined 45 years ago. Its brutality is increasingly impossible to ignore. Israel now risks becoming an international pariah, as former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert foresaw in 2007, even as he was unwilling or unable to stop the settlement project. And a growing number of Palestinians are giving up on the two-state solution in favor of a future state of Israel/Palestine where all citizens enjoy freedom, justice, and equality regardless of race or religion.
UNRWA reform’ effort will harm Middle East peace effort
Benjamin Netanyahu and his U.S. congressional enablers are “euthanizing peace.”
