Palestine Think Tank

And why the Secular Democratic State will serve the Zionist and Arab Comprador Solution! (Also published today on Knaa’an Online) www.kanaanonline.org

More than ever before, the One-State Solution (OSS) [i] for the Arab-Israeli conflict jumps to the forefront of the debate by some Israeli and Palestinian activists.
While some returned to this solution after they realized that [...]

WRITTEN BY OMAR BARGHOUTI and first published in Institute of Social Studies
Omar Barghouti, an independent Palestinian political and cultural analyst and commentator, is a long-time advocate of a unitary, secular democratic state in historic Palestine. He is a co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), established in 2004, [...]

WRITTEN BY DAN ALBA
The United States government is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism.
George Bush, Dick Cheney, and fellow neocons—including most member of Congress, the State Department, the Pentagon, and so-called think tanks—are war criminals, terrorists, and traitors. They have hijacked U.S. policy and have chosen to continue and accelerate on a crookedly jagged path [...]

Written by Mazin Qumsiyeh
We are 126 years after the practical initiation of Zionist project to colonize Palestine and we are 60 years after the realization of that vision in the form of a Jewish ethnocentric nationalistic state. These are very short periods in human histories (the crusader kingdoms lasted much longer). History teaches us that [...]

WRITTEN BY JOHN CATALINOTTO
Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, popular because of their successful resistance to past Israeli attacks on the country, have answered a provocation from the U.S.- backed Lebanese government and at the same time handed a sharp military defeat to rightist forces, especially in Beirut. By May 12 heavy fighting between the Hezbollah-led opposition [...]

Alice was falling up, then rising down
With a quantum leap, transcending
Into a parallel universe
Were every thing is upside down
And nothing is what it seems to be
In a forgotten land, once called Palestine
In this land of wonders, Alice saw
Murderers get Nobel peace prizes
Thieves are the guardians
Of peace and security
War criminals are the law
In this land of [...]

(Arabic translation below)
WRITTEN BY ABDUL BARI ATWAN,Editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Translated by Adib S. Kawar
The last four days uncovered the reality of the balance of power in Lebanon, for when the pro-government leaders, such as Saad Al-Hariri and Walid Jumblatt find themselves under siege, and cannot leave their headquarters, and ask for the army’s protection, [...]

(illustration by Mazen Kerbaj - translation below*)
What is going on today in Lebanon is just an extension of the situation in the entire region. The US and its western allies are trying to show everyone that religion is the main factor of this dispute and they are trying to cover the political motivations and especially [...]

“We didn’t mean to kill them…” By ‘them’ we mean Palestinian children. After all, they are Palestinian children, those are who are supposed to grow up to become ‘Palestinian terrorists!’ so why care for them? We even kill anybody who dares to care for them, we killed that person who devoted his life for caring [...]

Normal nations, like normal people, don’t celebrate their days of infamy.  In fact, they struggle to forget them. Some countries with a troubled past try hard to deal with their shameful legacies, often by openly acknowledging their sins and apologizing to their victims and to their victims’ descendants.
 
However, in Israel, which encapsulates evil and racism, [...]