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Focus Politics

Reclaiming The PLO, Re-Engaging Youth

by Nijmeh Ali, Marwa Fatafta, Dana El Kurd, Fadi Quran, Belal Shobaki on August 13, 2020

PLO report

How can the PLO maintain accountability as both a national liberation movement and governing body? How might Hamas and Islamic Jihad be integrated after decades of exclusion? What models of Palestinian youth leadership can be further developed? Al-Shabaka analysts address these and other questions in this full-length report, a year-long exercise facilitated by Alaa Tartir…

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Marking the Nakba: From Betrayals and Warnings to Future Visions

by Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network on May 15, 2020

To mark the 72nd year of the Nakba – the catastrophe when Zionist forces evicted the majority of Palestinians from their homes and lands, occupying 78% of Palestine – Al-Shabaka reissues this insightful compilation of essays by its engaged scholars and analysts.  These timely pieces dissect the betrayal of Palestine, the struggle of the refugees, the warning signs during the decades of seeking Palestinian-Israeli peace without justice, and strategies for the future. They give us strength at a time of looming annexation and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Focus On: Palestine’s Natural Resources

by Samer Abdelnour, Zena Agha, Tareq Baconi, Muna Dajani, Victor Kattan, Vivien Sansour, Alaa Tartir, Rami Zurayk on October 17, 2019

Palestine has an abundance of natural resources, but in the decades since the establishment of the state of Israel they have been compromised and exploited. In this collection of analysis, Al-Shabaka experts provide insight into issues related to Palestinian natural resources, from their theft by Israel to the effects of climate change and its intersection with the Israeli occupation.

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Focus On: International Aid to Palestine

by Samer Abdelnour, Sam Bahour, Nora Lester Murad, Alaa Tartir, Jeremy Wildeman on September 4, 2019

The Trump Administration’s aid cuts to Palestinians, while disastrous, can spur a reassessment of the Oslo Accords aid model, which for decades has failed to bring Palestinians closer to freedom, self-determination, or statehood. In this collection of pieces, Al-Shabaka analysts examine aid to Palestine and its harmful ramifications, and suggest ways to reform and reinvent Palestinian aid.

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Focus On: 25 Years of Oslo

by Ali Abunimah, Nur Arafeh, Samia al-Botmeh, Leila Farsakh, Ingrid Jaradat Gassner, Nadia Hijab, Jamil Hilal, Asem Khalil, Osamah Khalil, Camille Mansour, Mouin Rabbani, Ibrahim Shikaki, Joanna Springer, Alaa Tartir, Jeremy Wildeman on September 13, 2018

In this compilation Al-Shabaka’s top analysts dissect the Accords’ political and economic dimensions and discuss their repercussions for Palestinians while also providing recommendations on ways forward.

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Focus On: Gaza

by Ayah Abubasheer, Tareq Baconi, Haidar Eid, Victor Kattan, Esther Rappaport, Omar Shaban, Khalil Shaheen, Wajjeh Abu Zarifa on May 8, 2018

World attention has refocused on Gaza since the Palestinians imprisoned there for more than a decade began their peaceful “Great March of Return” on March 30. In this collection of publications, Al-Shabaka analysts review the conditions and developments of the past decade to address the most important political and economic issues informing the current situation.

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Focus On: When Does It Become Apartheid?

by Samer Abdelnour, Irene Calis, Andy Clarno, Haidar Eid, Yara Hawari, Nadia Hijab, Hazem Jamjoum, Ingrid Jaradat Gassner, Victor Kattan on January 23, 2018

apartheid palestine israel

Does Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people constitute apartheid? And is apartheid the best framework to apply to Palestine and the Palestinians to achieve freedom, justice, and equality? As 2018 marks 70 years since the Nakba - or catastrophe - began, this collection of Al-Shabaka analysis over the years helps shed light on the debate.

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Focus On: PLO and Palestinian Representation

by Toufic Haddad, Osamah Khalil, Rana Barakat, Mouin Rabbani, Dina Omar, Fajr Harb, Hani al-Masri, As'ad Ghanem, Yassmine Hamayel, Aziza Khalidi, Noura Erakat, Jamil Hilal, Sam Bahour, Jaber Suleiman, Diana Buttu, Wajjeh Abu Zarifa, Basem Ezbidi, Tariq Dana, Amal Ahmad, Nadia Hijab on August 31, 2017

PLO Palestinian Leadership

Al-Shabaka presents a selection of pieces from its archives in which its policy analysts discuss issues related to the reform of PLO institutions and questions of legitimate political representation.

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Focus On: Palestinian Refugees

by Mai Abu Moghli, Nael Bitarie, Nell Gabiam, Ahmad Diab, Rosemary Sayigh, Dalal Yassine, Oroub el-Abed, Jaber Suleiman, Munir Nuseibah, Hazem Jamjoum, Randa Farah, Mayssun Succarie on May 13, 2017

This collection of some of the most compelling pieces Al-Shabaka has published contextualizes and discusses the unique difficulties of Palestinian refugees displaced across the Middle East – from becoming refugees a second or third time due to the ongoing Syrian civil war to over-researching camps “famous” for tragedy while under-researching other refugee situations and exile communities.

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Focus On: Palestinian-Israeli Security Coordination

by Tariq Dana, Sabrien Amrov, Alaa Tartir on March 21, 2017

Palestine security coordination

The Palestine Liberation Organization’s top leadership body, the Central Council, called for a halt to Palestinian security coordination with Israel in 2015. Yet PLO Chair Mahmoud Abbas has described it as sacred despite the breakdown of the peace process to end Israel’s 50-year military occupation and colonization of Palestinian territory. The killing by Israeli forces of activist and youth leader Basil Al-Araj, whom the Palestinian Authority had previously imprisoned – raising accusations that his jailing was part of its so-called revolving door policy - has refocused public attention on the issue. In the selection of pieces below, Al-Shabaka policy analysts discuss the origins and pillars of Israeli-PA security coordination as well as its consequences for the Palestinian people, who experience it as an additional layer of oppression to the multiple violations of their rights under occupation, within Israel, and in exile. 

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