Palestine Think Tank

WRITTEN BY Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria
The current standoff between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the issue of 'settlements' has raised the prospect of defining a new chapter in US/Israel relations.
Media reports suggest that since Obama’s administration took office a new sense of optimism prevails regarding a “peace deal” between [...]

In the US and the West, we are able and free to debate God and HIS/HER existence, debate Jesus, Moses, Mohamed, debate America, its failures and its successes, debate our constitution and its interpretations. We are free to debate George Bush and his stupidity, his crimes against America and the world, and his many failures. [...]

While the depth and breadth of pain of the ongoing Zionist massacre against the Palestinian people is immeasurable, victory for the Palestinian people has never been closer.  Although the past 18 days of pure fascistic Zionist murder spree have to date killed more than 971 Palestinians and have injured over 4,400, the resulting local, national, regional, [...]

Saturday is the holy day for all Jews in world. This is a well known part of the Jewish customs. During Saturday they exchange greetings, saying “Shabbat Shalom” or “Peace Saturday”. Under the Israeli occupation in West Bank and Gaza since over 41 years, the Palestinians never lived one day of peace, even not one [...]

I am writing this article after I escaped from the criminal action of Israelis on November 1, 2008, who came to Vienna to watch and to harass me. I wonder if the mission of these criminals to terrorize me in exile was coordinated between the Israelis and the Palestinian "security" team, just like what is [...]

The announcement below was received today from Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (Palestine)

Begin Forward:

The following letter was presented to President Mahmoud Abbas's office on behalf of 78 Palestinian organizations on Wednesday September 22, 2008. Note that ALL Palestinian political factions have signed on as well.

Please distribute widely.

Open Letter to President [...]

 
In the picture, two of the generals who are arranging military actions with Fatah military leaders and the new Prime Minister of Israel…
 
These same generals met with top Fatah military leaders to plan Jenin 2…
From www.xpis.ps WRITTEN BY KHALID AMAYREH FROM OCCUPIED PALESTINE
Nahum Barnea is a prominent Israeli journalist and regular columnist at the mass-circulation newspaper, Yedioth [...]

Following the interchanging of the roles of coordination between the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli occupation raided the Palestinian charities of Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah and Jenin in the West Bank cities, closing, vandalizing, looting, destroying, and transferring their respective properties to the Israeli military central command Gadi Shamni, and the Palestinian Authority [...]

Where will the Bethlehem Investors Conference lead the Palestinians? Who planned and hosted this conference, and why? What role does Israel play in this Investors Conference in Bethlehem? Who decides who is not allowed, and who is allowed, to attend the Investors Conference: Israel or the PA? Will the Investors Conference discuss the proposed joint [...]