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Gaza officials accuse Israel of war crimes at ICC

Image above: Palestinians gather as rescue workers search for victims under the rubble of a house which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 25, 2014. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

 
by Thomas Adamson               Associated Press

Palestinian Collaboration Overshadows Latest Talks

Shortly after the signing of the Oslo accords between Israel and the PLO in 1993, the Jerusalem Post ran a cartoon that depicted a critical aspect of those accords which has rarely been discussed much less acknowledged. In the cartoon, a smiling Yasser Arafat was sitting upright on a stretcher giving a “V” sign. The stretcher bearers were Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.

2014: Failure of Palestinian Authority, BDS Success to Continue

2013 was a year in which the so-called peace process charade was allowed to continue, leading Palestinians on yet another futile journey of broken promises. Meanwhile, the Israeli colonial project in the West Bank and East Jerusalem carried on unabated. But it was not entirely a year of doom and gloom either, for the global boycott campaign (BDS) has taken off like never before, surpassing the capricious Palestinian leadership and its confined political platforms.