While Nablus is raided: Gordon Brown, another false prophet

21/07/08
By Khalid Amayreh
As British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was having an
audience with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud
Abbas in Bethlehem, the Israeli occupation army was raping
anew the Palestinian town of Nablus, rounding up and
humiliating innocent people, violating homes and
vandalizing businesses.
On Sunday and early Monday, the so-called Israeli Defense
Forces raided the northern city, for the fourth [...]

Met with silence

Recent Israeli army aggressions against Palestinian
charities, beauty salons and shops show unequivocally that
Israel is morally lost, writes Khaled Amayreh in Nablus
If you still think there are red lines that Israel has not
crossed with regard to its treatment of Palestinians, don’t
be too sure. In recent days and weeks, the Israeli army has
been vandalising, ransacking and confiscating [...]

Israeli Apartheid wall: Still illegal

Still illegal Four years on, Palestinians still demand that
the World Court’s ruling on Israel’s apartheid wall be
implemented, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank
On 9 July 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in
The Hague ruled as illegal the so- called “separation wall”
– the gigantic barrier Israel had been building in the
West Bank.
The wall has [...]

Israel crosses all red lines in West Bank

11/07/2008
By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah
Until a few years ago, most of the Israeli army activities
in the occupied territories were aimed primarily at forcing
Palestinians to come to terms with their status as
perpetual slaves tightly controlled by Jewish masters.
The occupation army would demolish homes, seal college
campuses and arrest suspected activists for prolonged
periods of time.
The message was clear: [...]

Israel’s collective psychosis: The denial syndrome

20/07/2008
By Khalid Amayreh
This week, Israel sank in an avalanche of national
lethargy, hypocrisy and self-righteousness.
Seeking to cope with Hezbullah’s success in getting Israel
to release all Lebanese prisoners, dead and living, in
exchange for the remains of two Israeli soldiers, Israeli
leaders, media and shapers of public opinion have been
indulging in sanctimonious self-glorification while
denouncing the other side as “hateful, [...]

Reflections on the Israel-Hezbullah Prisoner swap deal

17/07/2008
By Khalid Amayreh
The latest prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hezbullah
is a healthy indicator that at least some Arabs are
beginning to understand the depraved Zionist mentality, and
act accordingly. Such mentality is based on arrogance,
insolence, and religious and ethnic superiority.
Israel, a country whose collective mindset views non-Jews
as virtual animals or at least lesser human beings, had [...]

Chasing a mirage?

11/06/08
Hamas leaders arrive in Cairo to resume efforts, mediated
by Egypt, aimed at addressing numerous issues currently
deadlocked on top of which is the elusive Palestinian
reconciliation, Dina Ezzat and Khaled Amayreh report
A Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo Tuesday for talks with
Egyptian officials to resume truce negotiations frozen by
the movement last week as well as discuss a prisoner [...]

Under the pretext of fighting Hamas: Israel launches all-out war on Islamic institutions in the West Bank

From Khalid Amayreh in Nablus
08/07/08
Palestinian Islamic leaders have called on Arab and Muslim
states as well as “all human beings who believe in justice”
to strongly condemn an ongoing Israeli campaign against
Islamic civilian institutions throughout the occupied West
Bank.
The Israeli army on Tuesday, 8 July, rampaged through the
northern town of Nablus, raiding schools, businesses,
charities, sport clubs and a [...]

Jewish “Klansmen” tie Palestinian to power pole, beat him savagely

06/07/2008
From Khalid Amayreh in el-Sammou, Hebron
Even in his wildest dreams, Midhat Radwan Abu Karsh never
imagined that one day he would be tied up to a power pole
and savagely beaten by bigoted Jewish settlers who believe
that non-Jews are animals in a human shape.
Yet, this is exactly what happened to him earlier this week
when four Jewish terrorists [...]

Behavior Unbecoming of a Palestinian

By Khalid Amayreh
3 July 2008
Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, holds a number of
key portfolios of immense significance and symbolism.
He is the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO), President of the Palestinian ‘national’ Authority
(PA) and Chief of the Fatah organization.
As such, he ought to strive to represent his tormented
people in the best possible manner. [...]