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  • May 4, 2014

    The American guarantees are more dangerous than the settlements

    It appears the United States efforts to resume direct negotiations between the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and the Israeli Government has started to bear fruit. This comes amid widespread...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take centre stage

    In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Gaza: breaking the stranglehold of dependence

    It is not often that a mainstream British newspaper reports a positive story from Palestine and the Gaza Strip in particular. The respected Financial Times did just this in...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    It's Time to Dismantle the Palestinian Authority

    From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Ahmed Moor was published in the...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Britain's unfortunate surrender to Israeli blackmail

    Israel’s right-wing government has exercised the ugliest forms of extortion by postponing strategic dialogue with Britain until it changes the law that allows the prosecution in its courts of...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Why the talks were always destined to fail

    Key Points: The recent stalemate in talks is not surprising as they followed a failed formula. No peace settlement can ever be reached if:– Israel continues to plan and...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Mr. Hague, this is what you should say to the Israelis next week

    If Israel wants to be accepted as a normal state among the family of nations then it must abandon its dangerous flirtation with apartheid-like policies. This week’s clashes in...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Are peace negotiations without Palestinian national reconciliation viable?

    Key points: Palestinian national reconciliation is indispensible to the conclusion of a just and lasting peace settlement and the implementation of any two-state solution. Any efforts to secure a...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Abed Rabbo and his alternative options

    The view of Al-Quds Al-Arabi The Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s executive Committee has said that the Palestinian Authority is giving serious thought to ending its commitment to...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Living next to the settler neighbors from hell

    MEMO’s Renee Boyer comments on Sharmine Narwani’s article “Israel’s Human Shields and Live Bait” in the Huffington Post, 8 October 2010. Sharmine Narwani is a Senior Associate, St. Antony’s...

    Commentary & Analysis