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Israel`s New Leadership Offers Nothing New to Palestinians

Actions against human rights groups are a major blow to Israel’s image as a democratic state.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - How have Israeli-Palestinian relations changed since the end of the right-wing Netanyahu government? The short answer: Not much; a right-wing government is still in charge.

Settler violence is increasing, nearly doubling the total of the first half of 2021.

Israel Approves New Settlements
in West Bank

More Israeli "settlers" push into land that is not their own.

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA.) - On October 27, 2021, Israel approved about 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a day after the United States issued its strongest rebuke yet of such construction.

These are the first settlements approved under Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who succeeded Benjamin Netanyahu in June.

After the Cease-fire: Peace or War?

A summary of the realities of the aftermath of the attacks in the Middle East, how it will likely affect the US, Israel, and Palestine.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - U.N. Secretary General António Guterres urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to go “beyond the restoration of calm to start a serious dialogue to address the root causes of the conflict.” Noble idea, but don’t expect anything of the sort.

Both sides claimed victory, and both sides are far more likely to pick up where they left off than forge a new path to a just peace.

The Image of Victory

This war made both Netanyahu and Hamas stronger.

(LONDON) - If winning a military battle is defined by the accomplishment of one’s military objectives, then Hamas won the current round of violence with its very first ballistic barrage on Jerusalem ten days ago.

Israel, on the other hand, won’t win, can’t win and doesn’t even dream of winning. Like in recent ‘rounds’, all Israel hopes to achieve is an ‘image of victory.’

Will the Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire hold?

Will the cease-fire hold? Maybe.

(SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.) - The latest conflict between Israel and Hamas started on May 10 and ended with a cease-fire eleven days later.

The pundits say “maybe” pointing to the 2014 conflict between the two where it took nine truces before that conflict finally ended after 51 days. Signs are that this cease-fire may hold.

Israel`s Ongoing Crimes Against Humanity

Seven simple talking points:

(OCCUPIED PALESTINE) - Here is some "need to know" information so you may better understand how the Israel-Palestine situation has evolved to the human rights disaster that it is today, and why it is so difficult make change occur.

Palestine was colonized and replaced by a colonial settler state called “Israel”. The ideas was simply to take a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious country and transform it to a "Jewish state".

Tormented Dance of the Colonizer

As was true in South Africa under apartheid, so is true in Palestine under European Jewish colonization - things may get worse before they get better.

(OCCUPIED PALESTINE) - I was interviewed by many media outlets in the past 48 hours about the events here.

My message beyond telling them what is really going on on the ground here is simple: This is not a “conflict” or a border dispute nor a tribal or religious issue. It is simple: [these are] the last tantrums of the unsettled settler colonial system.

Hundreds of Palestinians Injured in Israeli Invasion of Al-Aqsa Mosque

The Israeli army forced the removal of Palestinians to allow groups of colonialist settlers to tour the holy site.

(JERUSALEM) - Monday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, and attacked hundreds of Palestinian worshipers, injuring more than 305.

The injured include medics, children, and women.

Likely U.S.-Israel Relations Under Biden

Israel will establish Trump Heights, a new community located in occupied Golan Heights.

(SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.) - Under President Donald Trump our relationship with Israel became an "extra special relationship."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not ungrateful about Israel's relationship with the U.S. under Trump, when early 2020 he said that Trump has been “the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.”

I Am Old Enough.

Reflections are still important. Is it alright for 7.5 million Palestinians to remain refugees?

(OCCUPIED PALESTINE) - I am old enough to have been able to see Palestine slowly strangulated over the past few decades, with us natives who trace ancestry thousands of years here kicked out or squeezed into cantons/open air prisons like Gaza and Bethlehem.

Old enough to have researched events even before I was born and wrote books about them (like Sykes-Picot, Balfour-Cambon, Gawler, Hertzl and more).