Palestine Think Tank

In the picture: nets run over the pavements of the Old Quarter of Hebron,  to spare the pedestrians getting hit by the trash dropped out the windows by the settlers. Nazi-like Jewish settlers have of late stepped up their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinian civilians and their property throughout the West Bank.
In some areas, like in [...]

From This Week in Palestine. We live in challenging times. The world around us is changing very rapidly. The World Watch Institute - an independent research organisation known for its analysis on critical global issues - reported in its new 2008 state-of-the-world review, “the world is very different, physically and philosophically, from the one that [...]

WRITTEN BY MIKE WHITNEY FROM INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE (be sure to visit their site and read comments)
There were no surprises on Barak Obama’s trip to Israel. Everything went by without a hitch. Obama met with all the heads of state and party bosses and raced from one event to another without incident. He skillfully tip-toed [...]

We learn from the Israeli press that a criminal investigation has been launched against the soldier caught on tape firing towards a bound Palestinian. However, there is a detail the Israeli press in English is reluctant to share with us. The shooting soldier was not just an ordinary low-ranking infantry recruit, he was a First [...]

Media humanize Israeli soldier, but what of Palestinians, asks Simon Black
I know Gilad Shalit. Not personally, but I could tell you what he looks like, his age, where he went to school, his hometown, his father’s name, what his father looks like, and how he weeps for his son.
I know that this is not the [...]

As British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was having an audience with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, the Israeli occupation army was raping anew the Palestinian town of Nablus, rounding up and humiliating innocent people, violating homes and vandalizing businesses.
On Sunday and early Monday, the so-called Israeli Defense Forces raided [...]

I’ve gotten a few “calls” for me to join the  J Street lobby, and it is a mystery to me why anyone might think I would even want to (see their About page which I print below the article with my comments in red). I took a look and went straight to see their “settler [...]

This week, Israel sank in an avalanche of national hypocrisy and self-righteousness.
Seeking to cope with Hezbollah’s success in getting Israel to release all Lebanese prisoners, dead and living, in exchange for the remains of two Israeli soldiers, Israeli leaders, media and shapers of public opinion have been indulging in sanctimonious lethargy and self-glorification while denouncing [...]

Most economists, from Marxists and leftists to liberals, have been contributing to analysis of the current crisis of the world capitalist system that started within the last resort economy, the US economy. Despite various reasons and interpretations mentioned by those writers, and even in spite of contradictory analyses between economists of one school, there is [...]

Monitoring the current Israeli collective pornographic lament in the Hebrew press, I found, to my amazement, a critical editorial written by Dr Mordechai Keidar, an Israeli rightwing academic.
“Our enemies,” says Keidar, “see in front of them a frenetic, emotional, weeping, corrupted, hedonistic, possessive and liberal nation. People who grab and eat, people who lack historical [...]