Worth Reading... Palestine-Related Articles

From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following recently published articles are worth reading.

Did banned media report foretell of Gaza war crimes? by Jonathan Cook (Maan News Agency)

A Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament is demanding that a newspaper be allowed to publish an investigative report that was suppressed days before Israel attacked Gaza in winter 2008. >

Deporting Gandhi from Palestine by Jamal Dajani (The Huffington Post)

The Israeli government's recent announcement of Army order No. 1,650 was just the latest act of provocation in a series of calculated measures to derail any possible resumption of peace negotiations. Under this new draconian measure, anyone who doesn't have a "permit" to be in the West Bank is to be considered an "infiltrator" and subject to expulsion or risk up to seven years in jail. >

Pitch black under siege by Saleh Al-Naami (Al-Ahram)

Dr Moawya Hassanein, head of Emergency Medicine at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, warns that the lives of thousands of patients with kidney failure who require dialysis three times a week are at risk because of power failures. >

Bad Faith in the Holy City by Rashid Khalidi (Foreign Affairs)

The Israeli government's announcement in March that it would further expand East Jerusalem settlements was just the latest in a decades-old series of calculated slights to the United States. >

Obama hints that "two-state solution" may be impossible by Juan Cole (Salon.com)

President Barack Obama acknowledged Tuesday that, despite the expenditure of substantial political capital by his administration, progress may not be made on Israel-Palestine peace. The AP quoted his reply to a question about how recent successes in negotiating nuclear arms reduction with Russia -- and getting 48 nations to sign on to a nuclear material security agreement -- might translate into diplomatic successes elsewhere. >

Case exposes dark underbelly of Israel's security state by Jonathan Cook (Middle East Online)

What is misleadingly being called in Israel the "Anat Kamm espionage affair" is quickly revealing the dark underbelly of a nation that has worshipped for decades at the altar of a security state. >

ElBaradei: Gaza, world's largest jail (Press TV)

Former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei has expressed support for Palestinian resistance, calling Gaza the world's largest jail. >

Israel's latest population transfer scheme by Amjad Atallah (Foreignpolicy.com)

Israeli reporter Amira Hass describes the latest round in increasingly dangerous provocations by the Israeli government in its attempt to ensure Israeli control over the occupied Palestinian territory. And for the Palestinians, it clearly sets out the potentially fatal weakness of American government efforts to represent Palestinian interests in any meaningful way. >

The views expressed in these articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of The Jerusalem Fund.

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