A new Palestinian prime minister was appointed Sunday: Rami Hamdallah, a 54-year-old linguistics professor and president of An-Najah National University. Given the severe economic crisis in the Palestinian Authority, is he on a suicide mission?
Thirteen years after an exchange of fire in Gaza appeared to have resulted in the death of a Palestinian boy at the start of the second intifada, an Israeli investigative panel has found “there are many indications” that Mohammed al-Dura and his father, Jamal, “were never hit by gunfire” – neither Israeli nor Palestinian – after all. Read more.
A makeshift ‘State of Palestine’ sign at the United Nations has left diplomats perplexed. The Palestinian ambassador to the UN pulled out all the stops ahead of the historic upgrade of Palestine, and when he requested a special chair for the PA president, UN officials told him: ‘Abbas is not the Pope.’
Attempting to break the vicious cycle in the Middle East, a Swedish university and a group of Israeli and Palestinian intellectuals propose an innovative solution: basing sovereignty on the citizen, not the territory, so every citizen of the two states will be able to live wherever he chooses between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, but as a citizen of his state. Read more.
Israel’s embassy in Washington has been distributing YouTube cartoon videos to pressure the international community to vote against the Palestinian UN bid.
