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The Draft Resolution the Palestinians Plan to Submit to the UNGA
Pasted below is the full text, as it currently stands, of the resolution the Palestinian Authority is planning to bring to the UN General Assembly, apparently on November 29. The resolution is...
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AIPAC Directs Congressional Punishment Of Palestinians After UN Vote
This article originally appeared at LobeLog. Please check it out, it’s an outstanding site for analysis of US foreign policy. The US government has swept into action in the aftermath of the...
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Syria Spotlights Problematic International Law
My latest piece at LobeLog, where I frequently write on US foreign policy, examines the inadequacy of the current system of international law. It has gotten so ineffective that it is now more hindrance...
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A Tragedy of Errors: U.S. Incompetence in Israel-Palestine Talks, Part II
An edited version of this piece appeared at LobeLog. If you missed Part I, check it out here. In part one of this piece, I began sketching the picture that emerges from the words of U.S. diplomats to...
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Myth-Making and Obama’s UNGA Speech
Once again, in his speech Wednesday at the United Nations, President Obama revealed the reduced importance of the Israeli-Palestinian Obama speaking at last year’s UNGA conflict on his agenda. He also...
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The Cold Realities of US Policy in Israel-Palestine
During the summertime war in Gaza, the two most progressive members of the US Senate stirred up controversy among their backers with expressions of uncritical support for Israel. At a town hall...
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Abbas Moves Toward ICC After UN Failure
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has now moved a step closer to making good on its threat to go to the International Palestinian representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour Criminal Court (ICC) and bring...
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Preparing for a Post-Abbas Palestine?
On December 31, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas closed out a year of stinging defeats by signing on to 18 international accords. Included among these was the Rome Statute, the treaty that...
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Takeaways From the Israeli Election
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won his fourth election last night in surprising fashion. He outdistanced the polls, including the exit polls in the waning hours of voting and won a decisive...
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A Progressive Response To Saudi Crimes Begins, Not Ends, With Yemen
Donald Trump’s statements and actions are so blatantly awful, so thoroughly misguided and immoral, that he gets blasted from a spectrum of political commentators, from the far left all the way to...
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The ICC Decides to Investigate War Crimes in West Bank and Gaza
The International Criminal Court at The Hague As Israel moves toward its third round of elections in less than a year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is desperate to find a way to hold on to power....
View ArticleUS lawmaker Gregory Meeks shows his true colours on Palestine
When Jamaal Bowman defeated Eliot Engel in a NY primary last year, there was some hope that the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee might be less hawkish on Israel-Palestine....
View ArticleThe question of violence
After years of the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority making it clear to the Palestinian people that diplomacy will not secure the realization of Palestinian rights–especially given...
View ArticleCutting Through: ICC Request for Arrest Warrants Against Israeli, Hamas...
Karim Khan’s request for arrest warrants against two Israeli and three Hamas officials may not be perfect, but it is major progress for an international system that few have faith in. Read more at the...
View ArticleUN general assembly vote could mark a turning point for international law in...
A vote this week in the U.N. General Assembly provided decisive global pushback against the U.S. and Israeli war on international law. Read more at Mondoweiss
View ArticleEquivalence Under the Law Is Not False
The notion that international law doesn’t apply equally to everyone undermines the very concept of the rule of law. Read more at Cutting Through.
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