Palestinians

P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas signed a  Fatah-Hamas Unity Agreement that would lead to a unity government within five weeks.

Questions activists want answered are posted here

….if we Fail to nail the warmongers 

 
‘Assassination Bureau’ revisited
 

“The Boycott is a Moral Substitute for War”  Bertha V Corets

But don’t expect him to unblock the Holy Land sewer

On Tragedy & Resistance

The signing of 15 UN multilateral treaties and conventions by the Palestinian Authority signifies the end of its collaborative role as Israel’s proxy police force and consequently is the first step towards Palestinian unity and the long overdue Palestinian Spring.

Under the terms of Israel’s draconian censorship, Israeli media are not even allowed to report the exchange that happened at the State Department regarding the detention of Majd Kayyal. 

 
by Ali Abunimah                 Electronic Intifada

 
 
Editor’s Note: Intifada Palestine is republishing this article in remembrance of the late Patrick Seale who passed away yesterday April 11, 2014 at the age of 83 after suffering from brain cancer.  He had many skills – as author, journalist, broadcaster, Middle East historian, arts aficionado and dealer and literary agent. But most notably he was the English-speaking world’s foremost chronicler and interpreter of Syria, its troubled modern history and its leadership during the past 44 years that of the al-Assad family, father Hafez and son Bashar.

 
by Amena Saleem                         Electronic Intifada
Over the last five weeks, the trend in BBC reporting to ignore events that show Israel in a negative light, while affording coverage to tenuous claims from the Israeli army that it has uncovered Palestinian “terror” plots, has become quite glaring.