Palestine Think Tank

Israeli security circles have warned recently that “organised Jewish terror” against Palestinians (and also against peace-oriented Jews) is on the rise and that steps must be taken to “nip that terror in the bud”.
However, Israeli officials, including Defence Minister Ehud Barak, have admitted that “confronting the settlers” is an uphill [...]

A Palestinian security agency holding a Hebron journalist in detention for criticizing the American-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) regime in Ramallah has refused to heed a court order to release him, his family said Thursday.
A Ramallah court has ruled that the continued internment of Awadh Rajoub was unlawful and that he ought to [...]

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 [...]

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  [...]

George W. Bush is well known for his low intellectuality and clarion ignorance of the world. To mask these serious flaws and shortcomings, he routinely adopts a discourse based on mendacity and dishonesty.
 
And while it is premature to pass a final judgment on the man, it is probably safe to conclude by now that he [...]

Illustration by Abdul-Rahman Modallal, Tulkarem from the Badil Poster Contest
As Israel ostentatiously celebrates the passage of 60 years since its creation in Palestine in 1948, more than nine million Palestinians at home and in exile are commemorating the Nakba, the violent seizure of their ancestral homeland by Zionist Jews and the dispossession, expulsion and dispersion [...]

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently made outrageously ignorant comments on the plight of the Palestinian people.
He claimed that criticism of and opposition to the Israeli policies of ethnic cleansing and apartheid against the Palestinian people amounted to “anti-Semitism.”
“Unfortunately, Israel at 60 remains a country under threat - threatened by those groups and regimes who [...]

In June, 1942, in reprisal for the assassination of the Nazi commander Reinhard Heydrich, the Germans carried out a murderous rampage of murder and terror throughout Czechoslovakia. The small Czech village of Lidice bore the brunt of the German revenge, with the SS killing all the men, deported all women and children and razed the [...]

The current Israeli government seems to be living on a staple diet consisting of murder, lying and theft. I am saying this because hardly a day passes without this wicked, racist regime indulging in these vices.
Two days ago, Israeli soldiers manning the Beit Hanun border-crossing, otherwise known as the Erez Checkpoint, at the northern edge [...]