Palestinian freedom cannot rest on the oppression of others
5 days, 18 hours ago

Palestinian freedom cannot rest on the oppression of others

Al Jazeera  

When injured Yahya Sinwar hurled a stick at the Zionist war machine, resisting even in the last moments of his life, he embodied the unbreakable Palestinian cause for liberation. Some now claim that Palestine’s cause is weakened by the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, that our struggle for liberation somehow relied on his iron grip over Syria. We know the al-Assad family – like other regional tyrants – used the Palestinian cause as a source of national and regional legitimacy while seeking to control and even suppress the Palestinian liberation drive. When Syrians rose up demanding freedom in 2011, regime forces laid siege to the camp, bombing and starving Palestinian refugees alongside Syrians.

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Palestinians learn about atrocities Syria's Assad carried out against his own people
6 days, 18 hours ago

Palestinians learn about atrocities Syria's Assad carried out against his own people

NPR  

Palestinians learn about atrocities Syria's Assad carried out against his own people As horrific details emerge from Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's jails, many question the man who once claimed to champion their cause. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Palestinians are confronting painful new information about a man many had viewed as a defender of their rights, the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. …

Is Syria’s al-Assad supporting Hamas for political gain or optics?
1 year ago

Is Syria’s al-Assad supporting Hamas for political gain or optics?

Al Jazeera  

As Syria slowly reentered the Arab fold, it mended relations with Hamas, but that doesn’t necessarily mean much. The regional fallout from Israel’s war on Gaza has drawn renewed attention to the so-called “resistance axis” – an alliance of sorts between Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and Syria. “Syria still plays an important role in the Axis of Resistance, simply by virtue …

Israel-Hamas war puts Palestinians back on Arab world’s agenda
1 year, 1 month ago

Israel-Hamas war puts Palestinians back on Arab world’s agenda

Live Mint  

AMMAN, Jordan—Israel’s fierce response to last month’s cross-border assault by Hamas militants from Gaza has reinvigorated support for Palestinians in the Arab world and stirred popular anger—not just at Israel and its biggest ally, the U.S., but also at Arab governments. “For me, what’s happening in Gaza calls for a response from the entire Arab world," said Najah al-Atoom, a …

Opinion: In war and peace, the fates of Israel and the Palestinians are inextricably bound together
1 year, 1 month ago

Opinion: In war and peace, the fates of Israel and the Palestinians are inextricably bound together

LA Times  

Mourners carry the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli assault on the Nour Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank during a funeral procession on Oct. 20. A bedrock fallacy underpinning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since its inception is that it’s inherently ideologically incompatible to be both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian. But even those who don’t ostensibly hate Jews struggle …

Why are Palestinians supposed to take it – again and again?
1 year, 1 month ago

Why are Palestinians supposed to take it – again and again?

Al Jazeera  

The West is trying not only to stifle but to criminalise all Palestinian dissent. The Ivy-league-trained “ignorant bigot” and flailing US presidential candidate earned a burst of fleeting attention earlier this week when he banned a pro-Palestinian student group, Students for Justice in Palestine, from the state’s university campuses. To my knowledge, the governor’s sweeping cancellation of the SJP has …

Palestinians are showing that they will not be erased
1 year, 2 months ago

Palestinians are showing that they will not be erased

Al Jazeera  

Palestinians have reminded the world of their existence, and determination to resist colonial oppression, in the only way that works. They aided and abetted Israel’s colonial oppression and basically encouraged it to intensify its efforts to expel Palestinians from their remaining lands and erase Palestine from history and global politics. As Israel intensified its efforts to erase Palestine and Palestinian …

The Arab world has forsaken the Palestine cause
1 year, 7 months ago

The Arab world has forsaken the Palestine cause

Al Jazeera  

The Palestinians have lost their Arab allies amid Arab regimes’ increasing authoritarianism and dependence on the US. When Zionist forces embarked on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine to establish the state of Israel in 1948, the plight of the Palestinian people shocked the Arab world. Indeed, Palestine today appears like an afterthought in the Arab political order, with many states …

Palestine: Unite or die
1 year, 11 months ago

Palestine: Unite or die

Al Jazeera  

A new fanatical Israeli government is putting the old flailing Palestinian leadership to the test — and this could be its final test. It pains me to watch smug Palestinian spokespeople speak of an inevitable “end of apartheid” or the “demise of the Zionist regime” when, in reality, Israel has become the Middle East’s most powerful state and one of …

The cause, and the goal, of Israeli violence
2 years, 8 months ago

The cause, and the goal, of Israeli violence

Al Jazeera  

Another Ramadan, another attack on Palestinian worshipers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. To achieve these proclaimed intentions and motivations, it is not necessary to attack a woman from behind with a police baton as she films the desecration of the Muslim holy sites; violently push and kick elderly men as if they’re cattle; arrest children and …

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