‘Palestinians Live in a State of Despair’
Arab countries had continuously said that the Palestinian cause would be one of the central foci of the pan-Arab movement. Yet nothing had materialized. Arab states’ devotion to the Palestinian cause, Palestinian activists began to realize, was nothing but rhetoric. The Palestinians came to realize that if they were to make any progress, and partic
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Palestinians BDS claims to try and “save.” As Palestinian Israeli journalist Khaled Abu Toameh puts it: The current Palestinian political economy, influenced far too greatly by the BDS and anti-normalization campaigns, amounts to a corrupt, unsustainable, terror-supporting regime that is disinterested in the economic well-being of its own people an
... See moreNoa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"Palestinians are often pinioned between two opposing but equally harmful tendencies: to turn them into abstractions on a political stage, or to turn away from them because what they’re enduring is too horrendous to truly grapple with
Ann Friedman • The Stats vs. The Story
America’s new policies set conditions for talks that Israel could never meet and that Palestinians could not ignore.