Winners and Losers in Palestine by Immanuel Wallerstein

"It's easy to see who are the losers. It's harder to see if there are any winners. During June, there was a dramatic confrontation between Fatah and Hamas in Gaza. The sequence was as follows. President Abbas dissolved the Hamas-led government (of which Fatah was a part)....

Limbo: Trapped on the Israeli Border

"Several dozen pro-Fatah Palestinians with little food and no toilets remained stranded Wednesday inside the Erez Crossing walkway connecting Hamas-led Gaza to Israel. "The situation is dreadful," Saeb Erakat said. "The situation is very, very dire." The refugees are inside...

Abbas dissolves Palestinian government

This commentary was originally published in IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo: Blissful Arrogance: The exploitation of the legacy of the European Holocaust and what it means for Jews as well as Arabs in Occupied Palestine 6.15.2007 "Israel, like South Africa, is an...

Jordan: Newspaper banned for publishing anti-Hamas plan details

" Jordan blocks newspaper edition over story on ‘secret’ Palestinian plan New York, April 30, 2007—Jordanian authorities should lift their ban on today’s edition of an independent paper, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. Fahd al-Rimawi, editor of the...

Obama Rebuffs Soros

"WASHINGTON — Leading Democrats, including Senator Obama of Illinois, are distancing themselves from an essay published this week by one of their party's leading financiers that called for the Democratic Party to "liberate" itself from the influence of the pro-Israel...