Palestine Think Tank

in the picture, peace and human rights activist Mousa Abu-Maria after he was hit by an IDF bullet during a peaceful demonstration. He is now under “Administrative Detention”.
The Case of Dr. Ghassan Khaled, the law faculty of Al Najjah University, Nablus
Administrative detention is detention without charge or trial, and without informing the detainees or their [...]

I’ve gotten a few “calls” for me to join the  J Street lobby, and it is a mystery to me why anyone might think I would even want to (see their About page which I print below the article with my comments in red). I took a look and went straight to see their “settler [...]

Vita Bekker, Foreign Correspondent
 Abed and Asma Nasar and their two children live in Jaffa near Tel Aviv. Asma is an illegal resident in Israel and is unable to go out or work. Ilan Mizrahi for The National

JERUSALEM // Asma Nasar is afraid to leave her home. Like many other Palestinians married to Israeli Arabs, the [...]

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 [...]

Whoever wants peace in Palestine and the region must direct their words and sanctions to the occupier, not the occupied, the aggressor not the victim. The truth is that the solution lies with Israel, its army and allies - not with Palestine’s women and children.
Jameela al-Shanti is an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council [...]

Nafha Society for the Defence of Human Rights in Palestine sent an appeal to help the Palestinian prisoner “Mahmoud Saeed Azzam” from the town of Seelet Al Harthiya in Jenin district. This appeal came after a visit to Shatta prison where he is detained.
The Palestinian prisoner “Azzam” has been arrested from his home by Israeli [...]

While the children of Palestine face the atrocities of the Israeli military occupation, the children of Israel celebrate the on-going ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
Two days ago I was visiting a friend of mine and as we walked down the old city, we more than once came across Hebrew-speaking tourists, a language I would [...]

We Palestinians had no hand in the Holocaust, nor in persecuting Jews. But we were transformed from a peaceable agrarian people into a nation of beggars under occupation, refugees, exiles and second-class citizens of Israel. Worse still, we are now labelled terrorists, suicide bombers or Islamic extremists. Our crime? We were in the wrong place [...]

We cannot but thank those who arranged for Palestinian Arab refugees who were chased out of Iraq for finding for them a path out of the hell they found themselves in, namely a desert no man’s land between Iraq and Syria. I am not sure for how long they spent of their lives suffering the [...]

Via: The Philistine
So 19 civilians are dead including a reporter and his crew. Zionism at work. The media claims that the 2 Israeli soldiers were ambushed. Its hard to be ambushed when you are in a territory that Israel “left” years ago. Funny how an ambushed group of soldiers manages to do all this in [...]