The Forgotten History of the Term “Palestine”
The land to the east of the Mediterranean has gone by many names, all of them designed to make a political point.
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Category: Palestine
The jibe ‘Progressive except for Palestine (PEP)’ is a cynical political strategy to exclude moderate progressives from debates on resolving the Israeli-Palestine conflict
In this essay, Philip Mendes argues that the new buzzword for Palestinian nationalists, ‘Progressive except for Palestine,’ aimed at progressives who do not support fundamentalist calls for the abolition of the State of Israel, is ‘not a perspective which seeks to advance principled reasonable criticism of Israel.
PA Min. of Educ. to kids: There is no Israel, “the entire land is ours, from the Sea to the River”
PA Min. of Educ. to kids: There is no Israel, “the entire land is ours, from the Sea to the River”, Palestinian Media Watch
New PA embassy in Tunisia displays huge map of “Palestine” erasing Israel
According to “direct orders and instructions” from PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the PA has established over 100 Palestinian embassies around the world.
After national vote nixed, PA seeks legitimacy in local elections
Under fire over the death of a prominent critic, facing dwindling popularity and smarting from the latest cancellation of long-overdue national elections, Palestinian Authority leaders are touting an upcoming local vote as an expression of democratic vigor in the hope it will soothe bubbling frustrations.
Palestine Isn’t Ferguson
In the imagination of the Christian West, Jews have been forced to fill every role.
The Arrangements Law and the Palestinian Economies
The reforms in the import of manufactured goods and agricultural produce included in the proposed Arrangements Law in Israel are expected to benefit Palestinian consumers.
The erasure from historical memory of Israeli statehood offers and Palestinian rejections is badly distorting today’s debate about Middle East peace
The erasure from our historical memory of Israeli attempts to achieve peace by agreeing to Palestinian statehood, and of the serial Palestinian rejections, is now standard practice.
9/11, 20 Years On: A Catastrophic Impact on the Palestinian Cause
Following the attacks, Ariel Sharon framed his government’s fight against the Palestinians as part of the global ‘war on terror.’ It worked brilliantly. This article is part of a special Haaretz project marking 20 years to 9/11