27 April 2011
Big news today about a reported “Hamas-Fatah reconciliation” deal. What does it mean? First, here’s what we know from Reuters: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement has struck an agreement with bitter rival Hamas on forming an interim government and fixing a date for a general election, officials said Wednesday. Read more about Questions about "Hamas-Fatah reconciliation"
27 April 2011
In recent months, Israeli religious and political leaders have become more and more open about their anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism. The Israeli press is full of it. The Jerusalem Post for example reports on a conference of Israeli Jewish religious leaders and municipal officials at which Rabbi Dov Lior, a prominent settler leader from Kiryat Arba near Hebron makes this outright call for ethnic cleansing: Read more about At officially sponsored meeting, Israel's racist rabbis say ethnic cleansing working, call for more
25 April 2011
More than half of Egyptians want their country’s peace treaty with Israel annulled. That is the finding of a new poll by the Pew Research Center’s Pew Global Attitudes Project. This will be a bitter disappointment for those who have been saying that the Arab uprisings have ‘nothing to do with Israel’ or would even be to the advantage of Israel. Read more about Pew poll: Majority of Egyptians want peace treaty with Israel canceled
25 April 2011
On Tuesday, April 26, Adam Horowitz, co-editor of Mondoweiss and co-editor of the book The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Investigation of the Gaza Conflict and The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah, who is a contributor to the book, will speak jointly at The University of Chicago, followed by a Q&A. The event is cosponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine and the American Friends Service Committee. Read more about Chicago event on Gaza & Goldstone with EI's Ali Abunimah, Mondoweiss' Adam Horowitz
25 April 2011
A remarkable editorial in The New York Times this morning calling on President Obama to resume the “peace process” between Israelis and Palestinians (President Obama and the Peace Process). It’s remarkable for how detached it is from reality. It is time for Mr. Obama — alone or, better yet, in concert with Europe, Russia and the United Nations — to put a map and a deal on the table. Read more about New York Times delusional call for resumption of dead "peace process"
4 April 2011
Until now, there have been good reasons to believe Israel would hesitate to launch a new major military assault on Gaza. But EI’s Ali Abunimah sees warning signs Israel could be laying the ground for another big attack. Read more about Another war on Gaza?
22 March 2011
Rula Jebreal on the struggle to make and show the film based on her book Miral and the tumultuous real-life experiences behind the story. Read more about Interview: Rula Jebreal on the struggle to make "Miral" a film
12 February 2011
“The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt have reawakened a sense of a common destiny for the Arab world many thought had been lost, that seemed naive when our mothers and fathers told us about it from their youth, and that Arab leaders had certainly tried to kill,” writes EI Ali Abunimah after the fall of Mubarak. Read more about The revolution continues after Mubarak's fall
6 February 2011
The greatest danger to the Egyptian revolution and the prospects for a free and independent Egypt emanates not from the “baltagiyya” — the mercenaries and thugs the regime sent to beat, stone, stab, shoot and kill protestors in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities last week — but from Washington, writes EI’s Ali Abunimah. Read more about The danger to Egypt's revolution comes from Washington
29 January 2011
We are in the middle of a political earthquake in the Arab world and the ground has still not stopped shaking. To make predictions when events are so fluid is risky, but there is no doubt that the uprising in Egypt — however it ends — will have a dramatic impact across the region and within Palestine. Read more about Egypt's uprising and its implications for Palestine