Palestine Think Tank

We learn from the Israeli press that a criminal investigation has been launched against the soldier caught on tape firing towards a bound Palestinian. However, there is a detail the Israeli press in English is reluctant to share with us. The shooting soldier was not just an ordinary low-ranking infantry recruit, he was a First [...]

Monitoring the current Israeli collective pornographic lament in the Hebrew press, I found, to my amazement, a critical editorial written by Dr Mordechai Keidar, an Israeli rightwing academic.
“Our enemies,” says Keidar, “see in front of them a frenetic, emotional, weeping, corrupted, hedonistic, possessive and liberal nation. People who grab and eat, people who lack historical [...]

The second part of an analysis of the motivations behind the internet campaign to keep the views of Gilad Atzmon out of the “Palestinian Solidarity Campaign”. Written by an objective observer, active in human rights campaigning for the past 50 years, we offer the second part of the analysis for better understanding of the reasons [...]

The First of Two Parts WRITTEN BY ROY RATCLIFFE
The catalyst leading to the production of this paper was the suggestion of a boycott of an Exeter University student ’Friends of Palestine’ event in May 2008. The suggestion was made by at least one Exeter Socialist because it was alleged that one of the participants, Gilad [...]

92 years after the martyrdom of his grandfather for the cause of Arab nationalism, a man was killed for devoting his efforts to his people, the Arabs of the Middle East. He was hanged in slightly different manner by the new colonialists of Palestine. Riad was born in Beirut in a Lebanese family; his grandfather, [...]

Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people cannot but feel a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for fifty generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times “by the sword” to get them to abandon their faith.
Uri Avnery, Israeli writer [...]

A brief introduction to Gilad Atzmon’s “The Jewish Experience”Gilad Atzmon’s Abencerraje or How the Fulfillment of Desire Disables Hope
Desperation tires until it becomes true,
and hope until its desire is realized.
The Story of Abencerraje and the Lovely Jarifa
Today, Gilad Atzmon is no stranger to the Spanish language audience. In 2003, when by chance, I came across [...]

Regarding the Op-Ed: Miscalculation How Hamas wastes Palestinian lives by Ziad Asali:
It is shocking to read Ziad Asali’s opinion, which shows how much he, especially as a supposed Palestinian intellectual, is ignorant of the history of his homeland and that of Zionism, which tells us how adamant Israel is on emptying [...]

Written by Sami Jamil Jadallah
Unlike the Rolling Thunder, the Veteran group that descends on Washington, DC every Memorial Day to remind us and the nation, certainly the Congress of the brave men and women who gave up their lives for the love of the country and to remind us and the nation of the millions [...]

Gush Shalom is hosting a protest on the sea, coordinated with allies in besieged Gaza. Like usual, Gush Shalom does not demand that the siege be ended unconditionally. It wants a “ceasefire”, whatever that means in the context of ongoing Israeli oppression and domination of Palestine. The same week, Uri Avnery [...]