HER MAJESTY

Salman Masalha HER MAJESTY Neither dust, nor a rock, nor a site Shall I praise from the desert’s edge Nor the reign of thieves that mines Only nightmares under siege. There’s no joy in my grieving heart For a past, for now, for what is to be, For the land or its tenants,...

How We All Got Here

Reflections on Israeli independence day, the Nakba and how the thugs of tribal and religious nationalism from both peoples are tightly grasping the fabric of the land Salman Masalha || How We All Got Here  Three reflections on independence and the Nakba: 1. Despite...

The Massacre of Arab Nationalism

Salman Masalha || The Massacre of Arab Nationalism The Israel Defense Forces are slaughtering Palestinian civilians on the border of the Gaza Strip. Bashar Assad’s regime continues to slaughter Syrian civilians. And the entire world is sitting and watching with folded...
MIDDLE EAST
  • War Games

    Israel also needs Iran. Just as Iran calls Israel the Little Satan (compared to the great American one), Israel also portrays Iran as the devil incarnate...
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  • Arab Nationalism?

    The past several years have provided decisive proof that all the pompous Arab slogans from the ideological school of the Syrian and Iraqi Ba’ath parties...
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ISRAEL-PALESTINE
  • For Jews only

    The Jewish messianic understanding of the "Land of Israel" is what dictated the move. Now Netanyahu will surely find a way around the High Court with general Jewish support.
  • Make way for Barghouti

    As long as Abbas bears the title “president of Palestine,” he will keep sitting there praising Palestine. But he will be bearing this name in vain...
 

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