Palestine Think Tank

Petitioners request that the Government of Switzerland, in its capacity as depository of the Fourth Geneva Convention, consider this issue in the context of resuming the High Contracting Parties’ Conference to the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Please sign this important Petition and pass it on to others to prevent Israel from continuing its ethnic cleansing not only [...]

While the Palestinian Authority (PA) seems prone to agree to "indirect talks" with Israel without the latter undertaking any meaningful freeze of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank, the Israeli government is making only provocations, rendering the resumption — let alone success — of peace talks more unlikely, especially in the near future.
Israel lately [...]

At a time when extreme and even unthinkable measures are being taken to completely sever the few remaining passageways of life into Gaza through Rafah's underground tunnels into Egypt, other tunnels of a different kind and a different purpose are being dug elsewhere everyday in broad daylight for all the world to see in occupied [...]

"I had prayed Samer, prayed that I would not have to witness bloodshed at their hands because I would go for the kill.. period – and I can and I would, I was not worried about my dying.. that would have been fine.. lovely actually. I would rather die there so it made no difference, but I would not stand by and let any of my brothers or sisters lie hurt and bleeding.. because it is our blood.. all of us, our blood."

The EU's policy statement on a future Palestinian state now needs to be acted on, writes Khaled Amayreh from occupied Jerusalem
A watered-down, though still strongly worded policy statement issued by EU foreign ministers this week has drawn ambivalent reactions from both Israel and the Palestinians, with the latter urging the EU to act on the [...]

Ban Ki-moons Concern and 62 Years of Nakba,
Israel Criticized Sharply at the UN in Vienna
Journalists rarely write about what is goes on in the offices of the United Nations in New York and elsewhere in the world. Rarely are the United Nations affairs discussed in public. This giant and luxurious bureaucracy surrounds itself with [...]

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
I get the Israel Foreign Ministry press releases everyday. As I have often pointed out, they are somewhere between science fiction and fairy tales. To find a bit of truth in there takes effort. But today's really does seem to go beyond the beyond in its attempt to make one think there [...]

WRITTEN BY KHALID AMAYREH  in Jerusalem 
As the month of Ramadan draws to a close, many Palestinians are devoting the last ten days of the holy month to gaining more  spiritual enrichment through I’tikaf or uninterrupted spiritual engagement. 
Many people are going for I’tikaf this year, motivated by a desire to gain Allah’s blessing and also encouraged by [...]

The roots and the horror of this crime date back to June 2, 1994, when the Israeli Special Forces and other IDF soldiers stormed the surgery, maternity and pediatric wards of the Palestinian hospital Augusta Victoria (generally known as “al-Motala”) in Jerusalem while they were looking for the BODY of a Palestinian who they mistakenly [...]

Ramallah / PNN – A new “plan for peace” is coming out of Washington that many consider to be disturbing at best. It includes keeping major Israeli settlement blocs in the West Bank.
The plan keeps the Israelis as occupiers, but with a few twists like in Oslo, such as political prisoners should be released. It [...]