In every culture and society, language is the living embodiment of national identity – the backbone that upholds a people's civilisational heritage. This is why nations, including colonial powers, invest enormous sums …
Read more →This question arises repeatedly in discussions and debates—among ordinary people, experts, and politicians alike. Everyone presents their own approach, yet no one can definitively claim to be right or wrong. The reasons …
Read more →Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, there have been major shifts in its social and economic policies and in its strategic foreign policy toward the Arab world – particularly toward the Palestinian …
Read more →The Strategy of Perpetual Fear ... Between Reality and Fabrication The mental terrorism of humans, individuals and groups, through planting a feeling of fear in their consciousness of something or an imminent danger …
Read more →We and the Hostage Strategy… Spontaneity and Planning Modernity has diverse and intertwined symptoms that the observer sees and the individual experiences in many areas of life. Modernity, in its social concept, is much …
Read more →Idealistic slogans that resonate and a harsh contrasting reality - between dream and truth Sayings Proverbs, wisdom, and expressive phrases are part of every culture in this world… Different cultures distinguish …
Read more →Language in any culture and society is an embodiment of national identity and a crucial pillar in preserving the cultural heritage of any people… Therefore, we see that all countries that respect and protect their …
Read more →The Palestinian minority in Israel has reached the point where its old forms of organisation have lost their force. Part one of this analysis traced the labyrinth: a community between citizenship without equality and …
Read more →The Palestinian path of suffering is long and well documented: displacement, occupation, division, exile. But narratives of suffering, however true, do not produce a political future. The decisive question is: how does …
Read more →For twelve years now, the Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas have been fighting each other. And by now one thing seems incontrovertibly clear: despite all efforts and despite countless mediation attempts by Arab …
Read more →In the final weeks of March, rockets were fired for the first time at Tel Aviv, launched from the Gaza Strip. This event astonished some in occupied Palestine and across the Arab world, while angering others. It was …
Read more →Two days ago, a large number of our honorable sisters and brothers in our Middle East, especially from the Palestinian people, expressed their dissatisfaction and anger through various social media platforms over the …
Read more →The visit of the Prime Minister of the occupying state to the Sultanate of Oman, his meeting with Sultan Qaboos, and his meetings with senior Omani officials, at a time when Israeli sports teams are participating in …
Read more →I am fully convinced that some, for various reasons, will label me reckless and hasty in naming what is happening in occupied Palestine the Fourth Intifada... This also happened at the end of 2015 when we called what …
Read more →Almost no morning sun rises without the Arab and Palestinian press appearing prominently with articles and analyses linking, from near and far, everything around a specific political event or political statement about …
Read more →Recently, there have been many articles and studies predicting the end of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the extinguishing of its candle that has illuminated the path of Palestinian struggle since its …
Read more →With the establishment of the Palestinian Authority approved by the Oslo Accords, which trapped the Palestinian situation in a political and existential dilemma whose repercussions we still witness daily in occupied …
Read more →The first clause of the Israeli Nation-State Law, passed by the Knesset on July 18, clearly outlines in its three paragraphs, leaving no room for doubt or interpretation, whose land this is, who the people are, who has …
Read more →Since the beginning of the holy month, we have witnessed a significant flow of aid, food, and gifts that our Palestinian brothers and sisters everywhere provide to support their siblings in Gaza Hashem during Ramadan. …
Read more →What happened yesterday during the funeral of the young martyr Muhannad Abu Tahouna, son of the Nuseirat camp in the Gaza Strip, is enough for every patriotic Palestinian with a living conscience and humanity to stand …
Read more →Statements by the US Ambassador to Israel Friedman about the possibility of changing the Palestinian president if he does not comply with US orders and agrees to enter talks with the occupation state regarding what was …
Read more →Attempted assassination of the Palestinian Prime Minister and the reconciliation file Since the failed attempt to harm the Palestinian Prime Minister Hamdallah during his recent visit to Gaza, the search machine for the …
Read more →A visit by a delegation from the Alternative for Germany party – the German right-wing party – to Syria and their meeting with many prominent Syrian figures close to the Syrian decision-making center constitutes a slap …
Read more →Palestine Liberation Organization factions - slow death Talk about reforming and democratizing the PLO institutions is as old as the organization itself. The reasons cited for neglecting this task for long periods or …
Read more →These three epithets are used by the majority of Arabs, Palestinians, and Muslims as synonymous words to describe that colonizer who came from the West and, with its support, seized the land of Arab Palestine and …
Read more →The resettlement of refugees follows! The urgent and legitimate question that we all must ask ourselves is: What is the next step planned by the enemies' alliance against the Palestinian cause, the Palestinian people …
Read more →The recent terrorist criminal act that struck Arish, claiming over three hundred innocent children, elderly, and youth, was not the first Islamist terrorist act to hit Egypt and certainly will not be the last. The …
Read more →Confronting the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital… Between fruitful support and solidarity and destructive populist vulgarity! In the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, populism has occupied a …
Read more →In the field of politics and the art of mastering it, there are laws that players must master if they want to succeed in their work and contributions in this field. One of the most important of these laws is the ability …
Read more →The changes we observe in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the continuous statements about future economic, social, and political transformations issued from the decision-making center and the royal palace prompt the …
Read more →Politics is a field of interests, not emotions! A reading of the Palestinian situation a few days after the breakthrough. This equation, politics is a field of interests, not an arena for emotions, despite its lack of …
Read more →The visit of Prime Minister Hamdallah accompanied by a high-level delegation from the Palestinian government in Ramallah today to the Gaza Strip to complete the project of ending the Palestinian division is undoubtedly …
Read more →Last Tuesday evening, I accepted the invitation of the German Foreign Ministry to attend a celebration organized by the German Institute for Cultural Exchange affiliated with the ministry, to present the annual …
Read more →State-building and embezzlement and public money waste in Palestine – The health sector as an example State-building in Palestine was the largest and most important project initiated and developed by former Prime …
Read more →The mountain labored and gave birth to a mouse.... Hamas, its new document and expulsion from Qatar Arab media published in early May the content of the new political document of the Islamic Resistance Movement in …
Read more →Now we challenge each other with Islamization and reactionism! A decision issued by the head of the Public Prosecution in the West Bank, Alaa Al-Tamimi, to punish anyone proven to break the fast openly during Ramadan …
Read more →Dignity prisoners and the battle of empty stomachs✌ Quick takeaways After forty-one days of the battle of water and salt, the dignity prisoners triumphed over the Zionist prison system and the decisions of its colonial …
Read more →The reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas has been signed – the flags are waved, the speeches are held, Cairo and the region record another success. But anyone looking closely knows: the signing was the easy part. The …
Read more →The Palestinian State Game! Official Visit Protocol Those who think a state is built with construction, shopping centers, heavily armed security forces, and luxury cars for those sitting on the throne—ministers …
Read more →I believe most readers at first glance do not see the commonalities between the words in the article's title. This fact does not surprise me as North Korea is geographically, politically, and realistically far from us …
Read more →Social media and the war of words and images, the war in Syria and the chemical play Perhaps the follower and observer of social media in its various types and multiple colors knows that the vast majority of what is …
Read more →Who are we? Thoughts and reflections on national identity: Palestinians of the interior between Arabism and Palestinization National identity is not just a slogan or a mere stance, but a past with roots, a present with …
Read more →The New Middle East and the Greater Middle East are two terms we have heard and read about in more than one study and analysis, and these terms were circulated recently as an American strategy, with Western blessing and …
Read more →In the objective evaluation of statements by a politician of the weight of the American president and in the political analysis of these statements, we must distinguish between what is for media consumption, usually …
Read more →Since U.S. President Trump announced his intention to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, we have been inundated with a flood of denunciations and condemnations from all representatives of the Arab and …
Read more →The dialectic based on the idea that the people are the beginning and the end of any political process, no matter how small or large, decisive or inevitable, is a principle proven true in different societies over …
Read more →Between confederation and federation, the compass is lost in Palestine Hamas Political Bureau Deputy Chairman Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk ended last year with a tweet in a TV interview that sparked a storm of criticism and …
Read more →Istanbul events and the sheikhs of discord and social division movements Everyone in our bloody East has become asking and wondering: How does a young man reach a level of political, religious, and moral blindness and …
Read more →It is neither expected nor required that everyone understands the Russian position on the Middle East, the Arab world, and the Islamic nation. It is also not necessary for all Arab forces and parties to support Russian …
Read more →Politics of bad manners and objective scientific analysis The most obvious and widespread trait in Eastern Arab political dealings is that they employ emotions more than reason in political observation and analysis. …
Read more →Although I live thousands of kilometers away from my homeland, far from my family, every small and big event happening in beloved Palestine shakes my being and increases my interest and follow-up… This was in the past …
Read more →Our Arab East is full of matters we are proud of and cherish. In this small corner of the world, human civilization was born and grew, and here Hammurabi set his humanitarian laws that were transferred to all parts of …
Read more →A few weeks ago, the debate about antisemitism in Germany and Europe flared up once again. The fuel this time came from an unusual source: an as-yet unbroadcast film on antisemitism in Europe, commissioned by public …
Read more →When the Palestinian academic becomes a weapon in the hands of the enemy! Since the establishment of the 'Spider House' state (Israel), its leaders and strategists have been working day and night to link Palestinian …
Read more →Mahmoud Abbas – Saudi Arabia's Ambassador in Palestine! The moment Mahmoud Abbas supported the brutal Saudi aggression and its war on Yemen and stood alongside Al Saud in their war against the Yemeni people — a people …
Read more →Anwar Ashqi's visit to Israel and the Arab initiative for peace The official and personal reactions of Palestinians and Arabs to Anwar Ashqi's visit to Israel and his meetings with Knesset members and politicians from …
Read more →The observer of the Palestinian situation can only shake his head in confusion and astonishment at what the Palestinian leaderships of various factions are doing. They are far from aligning and harmonizing with the …
Read more →The step taken by President Mahmoud Abbas to freeze allocations to the Popular Front and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine from the Palestinian National Fund was not a new step. The whip of political …
Read more →Condolences to the family of the deceased for the calamity that befell them in losing a dear person without a doubt One of the noblest human qualities is standing by the family of the deceased in their ordeal, a trait …
Read more →Tel Aviv events and security provocation in politics Reactions of many on social media pages after the announcement of the criminal operation in Tel Aviv truly provoke disgust. The vocabulary some used to express …
Read more →Citizenship in our East remains a rare magical word and still a wish difficult to achieve, if not impossible to reach under these political atmospheres and this type of political elite. The relationship between the …
Read more →Tell me with whose sword you strike and I will tell you who you are! Some Palestinian brothers reproached us after we published 'Days from the Launch of the Third Intifada,' our article addressing the events in occupied …
Read more →At first, I thought the statement I received via email, issued by the meeting of the Palestinian national factions in Germany, which condemns the national event titled 'The First Palestinian Diaspora Conference,' was a …
Read more →I would like to begin by apologizing to the late Professor Edward Said for borrowing the article's title. This title was the beginning of an article he published during the Second Intifada after the public debate, both …
Read more →Deutschlandradio Kultur – Interview 21.10.2015 07:36 AM URL of this page: http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/gewalt-in-nahost-die-hoffnung-wurde-missbraucht.1008.de.html?dram:article_id=334563 Riots in Hebron in …
Read more →The Arabs said: If every dog barked, I would throw a stone at it, and the stone would become worth a thousand dinars. And their saying proved true. Our life in the East is full of ravens, and how ugly and loud their …
Read more →“When injustice becomes right, resistance becomes duty.” Bertolt Brecht's sentence has accompanied the Palestinian question for decades – as warning and as accusation alike. “Land for peace” was the formula to which the …
Read more →First, I would like to extend my sincere thanks and gratitude to Your Excellency for your recent speech before the United Nations General Assembly. Your words, Mr. President, lifted my spirits, and I believe this …
Read more →Where has the security coordination with the occupation state reached? We have become accustomed in recent years to statements and actions by Palestinian Authority officials that have crossed red lines, even those they …
Read more →Since the official announcement of the call to convene the Palestinian National Council after a hiatus of about twenty years, the Palestinian situation has been in turmoil on all fronts. Discussions and statements …
Read more →Seventy years ago, the world learned the full truth about the Nazi regime in Germany. With the liberation of the concentration camps, the world witnessed one of the cruelest crimes of the past century – and Germany's …
Read more →One of the fundamental criteria for evaluating the success of a particular political system is the handling of public money by the executive and legislative authorities and their ability to stabilize a national economy …
Read more →I am certain that no two people disagree that the Palestinian situation has been in a real, complex, and compounded crisis for many years. A crisis of authority and strategy, a financial crisis, an internal and external …
Read more →The image seen by hundreds of millions showing the Prime Minister and war criminal Netanyahu at a demonstration in solidarity with France against terrorism truly provokes disgust. The head of a government that sponsors …
Read more →Did the leaderships of Fatah and Hamas ask the Palestinian people for forgiveness for what they committed against them over seven years??!! After more than seven years of Palestinian division between Hamas and Fatah …
Read more →In September 1993, the world witnessed an event that was meant to steer a chapter of world history towards more peaceful paths: the historic handshake in Washington between the arch-enemies – Israel's Prime Minister …
Read more →There has been much talk and commentary about the Egyptian role, initially ambiguous, in attempts to reach a long-term truce between the Israeli occupation and Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip. Some …
Read more →It is natural that truce diplomacy is the next and correct step for any armed conflict between two parties to find a solution that satisfies both sides and ends the suffering of citizens, destruction, and damages …
Read more →Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between a politician and a political amateur. However, it is very easy for both, especially if they belong to an influential political movement, to issue statements that strike …
Read more →In earlier articles I made clear to the reader the predicament of the Palestinian situation and its difficulty and the reasons for the loss of the political compass of the leadership of the Palestinian people. And I …
Read more →We have been accustomed in the past to evaluating and categorizing the statements of President Mahmoud Abbas – by which he embarrassed the Palestinian situation more than once – under the category of strategy and …
Read more →At the beginning of the current year, the Palestinian authority announced, through many of its leaderships and foremost the minister of prisoners' affairs, that the year 2014 would be the year of internationalizing the …
Read more →At the start of the Arab uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, one could observe the expressions of solidarity of the rebelling masses with the Palestinian people. The young Tunisians and Egyptians did not only call for the …
Read more →A few days ago a horrific incident took place in Gaza City. Few media outlets published the news, and strangely, no one commented on the incident. Two brothers in the impetuosity of youth set their bodies on fire in …
Read more →The Secretary-General of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the comrade and leftist thinker Naif Hawatmeh, was right when he said that the Oslo agreement carries its miscarriage within it and will …
Read more →At the beginning of the Arab movement in Tunisia and later in Egypt, the Palestinians had high hopes from the signals the observer was following and the slogans raised by the movement of the revolting youth in both the …
Read more →To begin with, we must admit that for more than three decades the word terrorism has been linked with the Muslims. Indeed, some western media have come to use the word terrorism as a synonym for the word Islam. And …
Read more →In recent days much has been said about the possibility of a western military intervention in Syria with the help of regional powers. The pretext from which this talk takes its starting point and by which the coming …
Read more →It is wrong to evaluate what is happening in Egypt and also in Tunisia as a conflict to embody democracy. In both countries the people, after ridding themselves of reaction and despotism, chose democracy as the mode of …
Read more →A few days ago the constitutional deadline of “two weeks” expired for the president of the National Authority to appoint a new head of government after Rami Hamdallah's resignation from his post, and until now we have …
Read more →Armed with this simple and illusory slogan, the Brothers and their followers and everyone who spawned from them – Salafists and jihadists – roam the regions of the earth to convince the people of the house of peace and …
Read more →Palestine and the Arab world danced, cheered and wept, from Rabat to Baghdad and from the islands of the moon to Lebanon, out of joy over the victory of the young talent Mohammed Assaf, one of the residents of the Khan …
Read more →The resignation of the Palestinian prime minister, whose appointment was a surprise to everyone anyway, and the attempts of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to convince him to change his mind – all of these are signs …
Read more →Hardly a day passes without one of the power-brokers in Ramallah passionately assuring us of what every Palestinian child, wherever they are, now knows: the coffers are empty, the authority is materially bankrupt, the …
Read more →Everyone is asking what goal Mahmoud Abbas and his circle were pursuing with the hide-and-seek game of recent months: one moment a senior functionary from the presidential office denies the nascent signals of …
Read more →Appeal by the Palestinian Community in Germany (PGD) for the lifting of the blockade around the Yarmouk refugee camp south of Damascus The war in Syria, ongoing since March 2011, has so far cost the lives of around …
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