Palestine Think Tank

from Haaretz 
Obama's Palestinian friend, WRITTEN BY AKIVA ELDAR
Prof. Rashid Khalidi didn't react when John McCain described him as a 'Palestinian hater of Israel,' because he wanted Barack Obama to win. But now, in an interview in Jerusalem, he is ready to express his displeasure with the president-elect. And he does not think Obama can make [...]

Rahm Israel Emanuel:  Will Handle U.S. Domestic Policy for Israel
Dennis Ross:  Will Handle U.S. Foreign Policy for Israel
  
"Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to [...]

We, Palestinians, are aspiring to any glimpse of hope to establishing our promising country of Palestine. Originally, that glimpse of hope grew when Israelis realized in the nineties that a real peace will not be achieved apart from an Independent Palestinian state. That time, the world agreed on that concept and peace deal (Oslo) was [...]

Unlike the Rolling Thunder, the Veteran group that descends on Washington, DC every Memorial Day to remind us and the nation, certainly the Congress of the brave men and women who gave up their lives for the love of the country and to remind us and the nation of the millions of American men and [...]

WRITTEN BY STEVE AMSEL OF DESERT PEACE (art by LATUFF)
…. and not a word about the situation in any major newspaper today. Has AIPAC got all of them tied up in their pocket? Has it officially come to a point where it is treason to criticise Israel and their genocidal policies?
Perhaps Israel timed this precisely [...]

By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PHD *
Some one million Arab and Muslim Americans, including some in my own family, voted for Obama in the primaries. I was not one of them and I will likely vote for a third party candidate in November.
I believe Obama is a shrewd politician who knew his political weaknesses (his contacts with [...]

By Ben Heine

As an Arab, an uprooted Palestinian, the AIPAC annual conference is interesting for me to follow, not because I expect anything good from it, but because this is the annual event in which U.S. leaders show their real mettle. Unfortunately, it was always disappointing for me and others in the Middle East, but we understand [...]