the US leadership of the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) could create two tangible outcomes in the short term: More securitization of everything; and more of the well-trodden path of economic peace. These are not good news for peace or … Continue reading Trump in the Middle East: Context and Consequences
Alaa Tartir of the Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network explains that the Palestinian Economy is unable to grow or develop because the Israeli occupation controls all aspects of the economy. Continue reading Economic Dimensions Militarized Palestine
To really bring about peace would involve de-colonizsing and dismantling the Israeli apartheid regime and ending the illegal Israeli military occupation: That is the first step. But neither the US administration, nor Abbas or Netanyahu, are willing to travel this … Continue reading Trump-Abbas Meeting: A Celebration of Egos
Rather, Netanyahu’s framework maintains the status of the Palestinian inhabitants of the territories as second-class citizens: living within an overarching Jewish state which refuses to provide them with citizenship or political rights, in other words, apartheid. In fact, the only … Continue reading How Palestinians Should Respond to Trump’s ‘One State’
Alaa Tartir, Program Director of Al-Shabaka, Engaged Scholar, Global Citizen 