Israel is an apartheid state. That is the conclusion Amnesty International reached based on irrefutable facts, and no Israeli government has a reasonable argument against Amnesty’s categorization. What Israel is doing in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem, and even within its state,…

Most often, Palestinian ethics has opted to use the slogan of liberation rather than that of independence, and whenever it opted for the latter, it was a matter linked to the decision. During a stage of broad and accelerating revolutionary escalation, one of whose most vital ground was the…

My granddaughter Sara who follows my work, especially my writing on Palestinian issues, and I only write about other matters every so often, asked me: “Why does Yasser Arafat occupy a central role in every book you have written? Even when you wrote about Mahmoud Darwish, Moscow, and the station.” …

Palestinians have finally given up on the meagre abilities of mediators in progressing on anything related to their protracted conflict with Israel, even in what is often described as ‘crisis management’ instead of resolution. These mediators have completely failed to resolve the conflict, despite…

The Palestinians’ 100-day battle, which started with the decree calling for holding elections and ended with their postponement, embodied a fact that Palestinians do not like; the country and its people are governed by decree, not institutions that spring the ballot box. Since their revolution…

So far, the Palestinian electorate in Gaza and the West Bank has reached one million and 900,000, and that number will most probably rise to three million by the time the elections are held in May. The high number of electors has worried the Palestinian factions, including the two main sides,…

Putting aside all the vaunting and boasting about Reema Dodin’s ascension to a top-level position at the center of global power- the White House- although she deserves the praise, her appointment stirred an extremely vital, even pressing, issue: How do Arabs in the US cope and how to they deal with…

Ballots with Biden’s name on them would have filled the boxes if some had been placed in Ramallah, provided that Palestinian Authority officials are the electorate. On the popular level, on the other hand, celebrations were widespread, but because Donald Trump lost his seat at the Oval Office…

Let us inject ourselves with a magic serum that makes us imagine the UN-sponsored border demarcation negotiations between Lebanon and "the Zionist enemy" will surely be successful. Since imagining compels further imagination, this success implies Lebanon is going from one situation to another… …

Rulers and leaders are most critically tested when their ability to weigh matters out and make the right decisions is elucidated, when the stormy winds blow in their way or threaten their people, or when their vital area and their wider surroundings are struck by significant events, like war and…