The EU As Payer Not Player: Subsidising Occupation?
Five Rules of Thumb: The EU has to reform it politics, before it reforms aid; The EU has to be a player NOT a payer in the peace process; The EU intervention has to be reformed regardless of Kerry’s failure … Continue reading The EU As Payer Not Player: Subsidising Occupation?
Intra-Palestinian Reconciliation: Time for Accountability
Without paradigm shifts and coordinated actions on the ground, however, including the (forced) realization on the part of Fatah and Hamas leaders that the phantom authority for which they have fought so dearly has been a key obstacle, none of … Continue reading Intra-Palestinian Reconciliation: Time for Accountability
Book Review – The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories: State-Building without a State
Dimitris Bouris’ The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories: State-Building without a State aims to tackle one central question: How effective has the EU been in its state-building policies towards the oPt? The effectiveness of the EU as a state-builder … Continue reading Book Review – The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories: State-Building without a State
Book Review – The Palestinian People: Seeking Sovereignty and State
There is no doubt that the book takes the reader on a journey of the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and freedom that remains unpleasant. This journey is featured by defeats and losses, despite the persistent struggle and resistance against the … Continue reading Book Review – The Palestinian People: Seeking Sovereignty and State
Unwilling to Change, Determined to Fail:Donor Aid in Occupied Palestine in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings
Since 1993 the international community has invested more than $24 billion into ‘peace and development’ in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). That aid was meant originally to support the Oslo Peace Process through economic development. However, neither peace nor development … Continue reading Unwilling to Change, Determined to Fail:Donor Aid in Occupied Palestine in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings
Failing Aid: Towards a Viable Resistance Economy Model
In the post-Arafat era, dramatic changes took place in the Palestinian polity and system of governance. These transformations have created a new style of governance and state-building in the West Bank which can be called, Fayyadism. This home-grown even though it is externally … Continue reading Failing Aid: Towards a Viable Resistance Economy Model
Palestinian Tribulations, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO
The Agenda has heard from Yossi Klein Halevi and Ari Shavit. Now, we gather a group of Palestinians to hear their thoughts on the divide in the Middle East: two-state, one-state, or eternal intifada? Continue reading Palestinian Tribulations, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO
Kerry’s Billions: US Economic Plans for Palestine Place Investment Over Freedom
John Kerry has called his plan ‘a new model for development’. Tony Blair has claimed it is unique in history. However, I am afraid that the plan (and the whole development industry in the occupied territories) will remain like teenage … Continue reading Kerry’s Billions: US Economic Plans for Palestine Place Investment Over Freedom
حلقة نقاشية: الحراك الشبابي لدعم القضية الفلسطينية
المؤتمر السنوي الثاني لمراكز الأبحاث العربية: قضية فلسطين ومستقبل المشروع الوطني -الفلسطيني، المركز العربيّ للأبحاث ودراسة السّياسات، 7-9 ديسمبر 2013، الدوحة، قطر. للمزيد من المعلومات انقر هنا. Continue reading حلقة نقاشية: الحراك الشبابي لدعم القضية الفلسطينية
Oslo: Key Issues, Past Mistakes and Future Prospects
The four pieces that follow are designed to tackle some of the key issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Borders, Water, Jerusalem and Prisoners. The fifth and concluding piece highlights some of the lessons learned from the experience of Oslo. The … Continue reading Oslo: Key Issues, Past Mistakes and Future Prospects
Book Review – Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The handbook is another scholarly production that attempts to understand, contextualize and theorize the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It aims to provide solutions and bridge the polarized discussion and the sort of dialogue of the deaf. While the handbook provides a certain … Continue reading Book Review – Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Wanted Alternative: Challenging Oslo Economic Neo-liberalism and Advancing Resistance Economy
Since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority two decades ago after signing the Oslo Peace Accords, the nascent Palestinian governing body adopted a neoliberal economic agenda and aimed to transform Palestine into Singapore according to the official narrative. The adoption … Continue reading Wanted Alternative: Challenging Oslo Economic Neo-liberalism and Advancing Resistance Economy
Wanted Alternative: Challenging Oslo Economic Neo-liberalism and Advancing Resistance Economy
Since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority two decades ago after signing the Oslo Peace Accords, the nascent Palestinian governing body adopted a neoliberal economic agenda and aimed to transform Palestine into Singapore according to the official narrative. The adoption … Continue reading Wanted Alternative: Challenging Oslo Economic Neo-liberalism and Advancing Resistance Economy
Can Oslo’s Failed Aid Model Be Laid to Rest?
The Oslo Accords not only left the Palestinian people much worse off politically; they also devastated the economy of those living under Israeli occupation despite the $23 billion-plus that donors have poured into the territory. What’s worse, Wildeman and Tartir … Continue reading Can Oslo’s Failed Aid Model Be Laid to Rest?
ألم يحن الوقت بعد لدفن نموذج معونة أوسلو؟
بات الفلسطينيون سياسيًا أسوأَ حالًا بكثير بفعل اتفاقات أوسلو التي دمرت كذلك اقتصاد هؤلاء الرازحين تحت الاحتلال الإسرائيلي رغم المعونة المتدفقة من المانحين إلى الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة والتي تجاوَزَ مجموعها 23 مليار دولار. والأنكى من ذلك هو غياب أي علامات … Continue reading ألم يحن الوقت بعد لدفن نموذج معونة أوسلو؟
أربع قواعد أساسية لمحادثات السلام الفلسطينية-الإسرائيلية
لم أكُنْ يوماً مفاوضاً للسلام، ولكنني كأحد أولئك الأفراد الذين سيتأثرون جوهرياً بما ستفضي إليه محادثات السلام الفلسطينية-الإسرائيلية؛ فإنني أشعر بواجبي بضرورة اقتراح بعض القواعد التفاوضية الأساسية للمفاوضين الفلسطينيين. إن لم نفعل ونقترح وإن بقينا صامتين فسُيفرض علينا، نحنُ شباب … Continue reading أربع قواعد أساسية لمحادثات السلام الفلسطينية-الإسرائيلية
Four Rules for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
Any decisions taken in the current peace talks will be the realities on the ground tomorrow. Palestinian youth are not willing to relive the painful decades established by the Oslo Accords. Consequently, Palestinian negotiators — who, in fact, no longer formally represent the 11 … Continue reading Four Rules for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
Donor Aid in Occupied Palestine in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings
Over the past twenty years, the donor community has invested more than $23 billion into ‘peace and development’ in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). However, neither peace nor development has been achieved, is any closer to being achieved, and in … Continue reading Donor Aid in Occupied Palestine in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings
Why PA’s New Prime Minister Heads a Papier-Mâché Government
The bottom line is clear: the trappings of sovereignty of what amount to papier-mâché governments under occupation will never liberate a nation. What they have done, and what this government will certainly contribute to further, is transforming a national liberation movement into … Continue reading Why PA’s New Prime Minister Heads a Papier-Mâché Government
التنمية كأداة للمقاومة والتحرر
هناك حاجة لحوار سياسي اقتصادي تنموي اجتماعي، يبدأ من الصفر السياسي؛ أي أنه يبحث في القضايا الأساسية كقضايا التمثيل، وحل الدولتين، والعلاقات السياسية مع إسرائيل. ومن ثم تبني قرارات اقتصادية شجاعة تتوافق مع فكر مقاوم غير مساوم أو مهادن. تحتاج … Continue reading التنمية كأداة للمقاومة والتحرر
Palestine and the Arab Intifadas: Reflections, Consequences and Opportunities
This paper aims to address the following central questions: After more than two years of the Arab Intifadas, where are the Palestinians from these Intifadas; what happened to them; who is revolting in Palestine and against whom; how they were … Continue reading Palestine and the Arab Intifadas: Reflections, Consequences and Opportunities
Alaa Tartir, Program Director of Al-Shabaka, Engaged Scholar, Global Citizen 