For Palestinians, the grim reality of being a refugee is compounded through the absence of any political horizon, enough to convey a sense of hope that, 70 years after the genesis of the Palestinian refugee crisis, a remedy is at hand.
“I absolutely think we have to look at right of return,” Haley told attendees, before agreeing that the issue should be taken off the negotiating table.
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has said that the right of return of Palestinian refugees displaced since 1948 is an issue that should be taken “off the table”, according to the Times of Israel.
Commenting at an appearance at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, a pro-Israel think tank based in
Palestinians, disenchanted with factional division, are laboring to create a new political space, independent from the whims of factions; because, for them, the real fight is that against Israeli Occupation.
The Gaza border protests must be understood in the context of the Israeli Occupation, the siege and the long-delayed
When the British withdrew from Palestine in 1948, there were in the country between the Mediterranean and the Jordan about 1.2 million Arabs and 635,000 Jews. By the end of the war that ensued, some 700,000 Arabs had fled and/or were driven out
Ze’ev Begin, the son of Menachem Begin, is a very nice human being. It is impossible not to like him. He is well brought up, polite and modest, the kind of person one would like to have as a friend. Unfortunately, his political views are far less likable. They are much more extreme than even the acts of his father. The father,
“Jews have been murdered again on European soil only because they were Jews, and this wave of terrorist attacks — including murderous anti-Semitic attacks — is expected to continue,” the Israeli prime minister told a weekly cabinet meeting last month.
Danish Muslims from the organization, The Network, form a "Ring of Peace" against terror at City Hall Square in Copenhagen Friday, Feb. 27, 2015. Thousands of people of different faiths have gathered in Denmark and Sweden in a show of unity after attacks against Jews in
If Spain can accept liberal multiculturalism, there is no reason to think Israelis can’t do so as well.
The year 1492 is important in world history. As every school boy and girl in America learns, that was when Christopher Columbus sailed the proverbial ocean blue and so ‘discovered’ America. Or, at least, some inhabited, offshore islands that he then commenced to claim for Spain, and whose inhabitants were quickly enslaved by rapacious
