TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
With Palestinians on the verge of an uprising throughout the occupied territories, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas may hand Israel a get out of jail free card if he decides to cancel the upcoming Palestinian elections, as many predict he will. Next month, the Palestinians are supposed to hold their first Legislative elections in 15 Read More…
Israel has long valued what it calls, its “deterrence capacity’, that is their ability to scare their opponents into submission in order to stop attacks. Yet this ability for Israel is now long gone, and attempts to revive it for political reasons may drag Israel into the abyss. In 1992, a journal article published in Read More…
Following several nights of tension, hundreds of Israeli settler extremists stormed the Old City of Jerusalem chanting “death to Arabs.” Palestinians responded by defending their sites and clashing with Israeli occupation forces, turning the event into a city wide riot. Unsurprisingly, Western Media is nowhere to be found. Since the beginning of the Muslim Holy Read More…
Palestinian Authority (PA) President, Mahmoud Abbas, announced in January, that Palestinian legislative and presidential elections will take place later this year. Since this announcement, questions have been raised as to whether the election will end up doing more harm than good, with Western interference and rejection of the results likely to take place, as well Read More…
On Friday the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s Pre-Trial Chamber ruled through a unanimous decision that it has jurisdiction in the Palestinian occupied territories (POT), meaning that the ICC’s prosecutor can pursue convicting Israel of warcrimes in the POT’s. The ICC’s Chief Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, as of Friday’s ICC decision, now has the ability to hold Read More…
This Saturday, rumours began to spread amongst Palestinians on social media of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) cutting aid to 400,000 refugees living in the Gaza Strip. This coupled with the lack of funds available to the UN Agency have sparked anxiety that the situation in the illegally besieged Gaza Strip will Read More…