Palestine Think Tank

Breaking Into a Prison
I want to tell you a secret and I want to ask you a question.
Shhh! - Come closer. Listen carefully: I’m part of an international conspiracy to break into the world’s largest open-air prison this summer by sea. Will you help me?
This August, the Free Gaza Movement will set sail [...]

And why the Secular Democratic State will serve the Zionist and Arab Comprador Solution! (Also published today on Knaa’an Online) www.kanaanonline.org

More than ever before, the One-State Solution (OSS) [i] for the Arab-Israeli conflict jumps to the forefront of the debate by some Israeli and Palestinian activists.
While some returned to this solution after they realized that [...]

From Kawther Salam’s Blog: The following speech was delivered on Sunday, 6 July 2008, in the auditorium of the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in Madrid, Spain. I was invited to give this speech by the organizers of the conference “Mundo de Mujeres / Womens World 08“, in the parallel [...]

Photo by Shirien. Please scroll down for shocking photo of the transformation of Palestinian land by the Jewish “settlers” in the West Bank.
I love taking photos, it is a hobby of mine and my camera is my constant companion wherever I go. I love taking photos of the green meadows, the blue sea, the clear [...]

When one Israeli person is killed or kidnapped, the media makes sure every single person hearing the news would know the name of that person, giving the incident a human dimension. But this has never been the case with Palestinians who have been killed, imprisoned or kidnapped by the Israeli authorities.
Palestinians are considered as a [...]

Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, holds a number of key portfolios of immense significance and symbolism.
He is the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian ‘national’ Authority (PA) and Chief of the Fatah organization.
As such, he ought to strive to represent his tormented people in the best possible manner. [...]

From his hospital bed at the European Hospital in Gaza  and with barely audible voice, award-winning Palestinian journalist Muhammed Omer has given a full account of  the  hair-raising encounter he had last week with  Shin Bet agents at the Allenby Bridge border-crossing between Jordan and the West Bank.
Omer, a co-winner of the 2008 Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalistic Excellence,  said  [...]

This is the story of all Palestinians
Message from Mona (a Jerusalemite):
Dear Friends and Family,
I am writing to share a little about what is happening in my life lately. As most of you know, I have been in Jerusalem since March 18 with Ramzi who at the time had barely turned 5 months. We left Habib [...]

A Palestinian woman’s story. Zeina Shrawi Hutchison is Hanan Ashrawi’s daughter.
I am Palestinian - born and raised - and my Palestinian roots go back centuries. No one can change that even if they tell me that Jerusalem, my birth place, is not Palestine, even if they tell me that Palestine doesn’t exist, [...]

Israeli Soldiers force Palestinians to approach, enter and search buildings where they believe gunmen may be hiding.
The civilians are subjected to different forms of manipulations to use them as human shields during operations to acquire control of the houses, detaining inhabitants in one place (often in one room of the house) and turning the houses [...]