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Statement by Palestine Youth Movement on the September 2011 Declaration of Statehood
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[The following statement was issued in both English and Arabic by the Palestinian Youth Movement on September 22, 2011. It was recently published on pal-youth.org] Statement on the September 2011 Declaration of Statehood We, in the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), stand steadfastly against the proposal for Palestinian statehood recognition based on 1967 borders that is to be presented to the United Nations this September by the Palestinian official leadership. We believe and affirm that the statehood declaration only seeks the completion of the normalization process, which began with faulty peace agreements. The initiative does not recognize nor address that our ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part I: Noura Erakat)
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[This is the first part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed Barclay, and Dena Qaddumi.] September 2011 marks a historic juncture in the struggle for Palestinian self-determination as the Palestinian leadership approaches the United Nations with an application for membership into the community of nations as a state. This move is rife with potential implications, including a shift from bilateralism to multilateralism and an insistence ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part III: Ahmed Barclay and Dena Qaddumi)
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[This is the third part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed Barclay, and Dena Qaddumi. A description of the roundtable can be found here.] As Darryl Li argues, occupation law has effectively masked the settler colonial origins of the Israeli state as well as encouraging a “partitioning of the imagination” whereby the Green Line divides “Israel” and “Palestine”. Allied with notions of a “temporary” occupation, this not only legitimises ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part V: Nimer Sultany)
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[This is the fifth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed Barclay, a
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Steven Salaita, "Israel's Dead Soul"
Steven Salaita, Israel’s Dead Soul. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Steven Salaita: I'd been wanting for a long time to systematically explore the idea of Israel's soul being in some sort of crisis. The decline of Israel's soul is a notion much ridiculed by those opposed to Zionism, and I thought it would be fun and illuminating to articulate why such ridicule exists—and why it is completely justified. J: What particular topics, issues, and literatures does it address? SS: It is a basic discourse analysis of some of the basic philosophical and moral tenets of Zionism. I also try to identify some of ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Statehood Blocked: Equality Struggle Ahead
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As the start of the UN General Assembly's 66th Session quickly approaches, it seems that "statehood" has sucked the air out of every room where Palestine is discussed. Worse, in Washington, where the Obama Administration has taken a firm stance against the UN approach, the statehood bid is seen as a radical move. President Obama's planned veto of Palestinian statehood in the UN Security Council will affirm what Palestinians and their Israeli counterparts already know: the de facto territorial singularity of one state comprised of Palestinians and Israelis between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Failure to support Palestinian statehood only ...
Keep Reading »Whitey on the Moon
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On numerous occasions this past month, I’ve been asked my opinion on the “social justice” protests in Israel. There is much bellowing beneath my short “shu bi‘a`rifni” (hell if I know). Some believe that literature and storytelling convey truth better than facts; accordingly, I will use the words of two late and missed writers Mahmoud Darwish and Gil Scott-Heron to express why many are uninspired by the 14 July movement. Gil Scott-Heron sang the poem Whitey on the Moon in 1970 responding to Neil Armstrong's trip to the moon. In the poem, Scott-Heron anchors the “advancements” of the space program in those populations at whose expense such feats were accomplished. ...
Keep Reading »Can the Palestinian Leadership Pave the Way from Statehood to Independence?
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Middle Eastern analysts concerned with the Palestinian statehood bid have rightly highlighted the benefits conferred by such status. They assume, however, that the current Palestinian leadership is willing to take the necessary steps in order to lead Palestinians from statehood on paper to independence in practice. In the early 1990s, the Palestinian leadership supplanted its struggle for self-determination with a state-building project. In its narrow pursuit of a mandate to govern, it placed undue faith in the US’s willingness, and arguably its ability, to pressure Israel to end its prolonged occupation thus shunning a resistance platform. In its bid for statehood, the ...
Keep Reading »Yaffa is not an Orange: The Limits of Archetypes
Salt of this Sea [Milh Hadha al-Bahr]. Written and directed by Annemarie Jacir. Palestine/Belgium/France/Spain/Switzerland, 2008. Salt of this Sea (Milh Hadha al-Bahr), released in 2008, is Annemarie Jacir’s first feature film, and her second work to debut at the Cannes Film Festival. An epic work, the concerns of Salt of this Sea are also the concerns of Palestinians across the globe; the film constitutes a sustained cinematic critique of Oslo and the Palestinian Authority, and places the Right of Return center stage. Reading – or watching – Salt of this Sea against its explicit messaging, however, the Right of Return that emerges in the film is not without its ...
Keep Reading »On the Possible Recognition of A Palestinian State at the United Nations
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There is much interest in what will happen regarding Palestine at the United Nations in September. Contrary to much of what has been written on this subject, this is not a matter of “declaring” Palestinian statehood. The PLO already declared the independence of Palestine in 1988. Like many things in life, this is something you can only do once. Moreover, this already proclaimed state of Palestine did not and does not enjoy sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over the territory it claims. Nor do either the PLO, which proclaimed this state, or the Palestinian Authority. The latter is an interim self-governing authority (whose legal existence technically lapsed in 1999 in ...
Keep Reading »Palestine at the UN. . . . Again
Just about ninety minutes ago Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, posed the perennial Palestinian question to the delegations assembled in New York: Is there one people too many or one state too few? For the past two decades, bilateral negotiations have quarantined a matter of broad international concern and consequence. Under the veneer of the “peace process,” Israel has consolidated its occupation and escalated its colonial settlement ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part II: Lisa Hajjar)
[This is the second part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed Barclay, and Dena Qaddumi. A description of the roundtable can be found here.] The West Bank and the Gaza Strip are the quintessential “hard case” in international humanitarian law (IHL). With the benefit of hindsight, we know that ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part IV: Asli Bali)
[This is the fourth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or the Solution? (Part VI: Darryl Li)
[This is the final part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing the relevance of occupation law to the Palestinian-Israel conflict at this historical juncture. Participants include Darryl Li, Lisa Hajjar, Nimer Sultany, Asli Bali, Ahmed Barclay, and Dena Qaddumi. A description of the roundtable can be found here.] A reckoning is upon us – not simply a tallying of votes over the campaign for Palestinian membership in the United Nations, ...
Keep Reading »The UN Palmer Inquiry and Israel's Attack on the Mavi Marmara
The UN released its report, "Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident" on Friday, 2 September 2011. The report addressed issues relating to Israel’s attack on the Mavi Marmara – which left 9 Turkish civilians dead, and some 55 others wounded – and concluded, amongst other things, that Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip is lawful and that Israel’s attack on the Mavi Marmara was justified, but involved excessive force. The panel then recommended that Israel issue ...
Keep Reading »J14: The Exclusive Revolution
The men and women who set out to build a Jewish state in historic Palestine made little secret of their settler-colonial designs. Zionism’s intellectual author, Theodor Herzl, described the country he envisioned as “part of a wall of defense for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism.” “All the means we need, we ourselves must create them, like Robinson Crusoe on his island,” Herzl told an interviewer in 1898. The Labor Zionist movement’s chief ideologue, Berl Katznelson, was more ...
Keep Reading »Occupation Law and the One-State Reality
For decades, the international law of occupation – a branch of the laws of war (or “international humanitarian law”) – has played a major role in structuring debates around Israel/Palestine. As applied to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the law of occupation has provided a useful and globally shared set of criteria for analyzing Israel’s discriminatory and repressive policies, as well as certain Palestinian actions. There is perhaps no legal document cited more frequently in debates on ...
Keep Reading »Breaking the Siege and the Diplomatic Impasse: An Interview with Huwaida Arraf
[This interview was conducted by Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat. Huwaida Arraf is Chairperson of the Gaza Freedom Movement Coalition and Co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement.] NE: Let's get some of the basics first—how many passengers were a part of the Freedom Flotilla II? How many ships and how many nations did they represent? HA: Twenty-two initiatives or national campaigns participated in organizing Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human. Each of these had hundreds, if not ...
Keep Reading »Top Ten List: What To Expect In Lebanon Now That The STL Indictment is Out
1-Sa`ad al-Hariri will release a videotaped statement from Paris saying that everyone in Lebanon must be brave and steadfast in pursuing justice for assassinated Prime Minister Rafik al Hariri. He will then go out for a five course meal, in Paris. 2-Hassan Nasrallah will release a videotaped statement from an unknown location where he announces that there will be peace and stability in Lebanon. He will sweat profusely, smile, and point his finger at the camera.He will then dispatch armed forces around ...
Keep Reading »The United Transport Company - Jerusalem
— Translated from the Arabic by Chris Stone. The United Transport Company stands alone on a square kilometer of land in the heart of Jerusalem. It is bound on the west by Street Number 1, which falls on the line that divided the city into East and West Jerusalem in 1948. To the east are The Garden Tomb and the Schmidt Girls School. To its south is the Jerusalem Hotel and to the north lies Damascus Gate, which leads to the old city. Here one usually finds large and small white buses with ...
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