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First Intifada
March 30, 2018, 5:02 am
Israel fears rallies will break out of Strip, even if protesters don’t
Organizers insist that the March of Return will be peaceful, but the greater threat to Israel may be a non-violent struggle spreading to the West Bank
By Avi Issacharoff
A Palestinian protester hurls a rock at Israeli forces during clashes near the Israel-Gaza border east of Gaza City on December 9, 2017, following US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
December 9, 2017, 8:15 pm
To date, Palestinians’ Jerusalem protests are a case of ‘intifada lite’
Fatah and Hamas have been relentlessly urging people to the streets, but only a few thousand have responded. An unpleasant surprise, though, can change that in an instant
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian protesters burn pictures of US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City, on December 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)
December 7, 2017, 6:49 pm
Abbas must decide how far to let the demonstrations go
With Palestinians of all factions taking to the streets in protest of Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem, the PA president holds the key
By Avi Issacharoff
Cover and detail from the children's book 'P is for Palestine;' photos of Palestinian youth demonstrating against Israel, throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. (Book pages screenshot from drbashi.com; photos of demonstrations from public domain)
December 5, 2017, 4:00 pm
‘P is for Palestine’ children’s picture book ignites controversy in New York
Some Jewish parents deeply troubled by attacks on author Golberg Bashi, threats against store carrying her book teaching children about Palestinian culture and heritage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An undated file photograph of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and late Cuban Pesident Fidel Castro, made available by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza City of the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Palestinian Authority)
November 28, 2016, 4:31 am
Abbas orders Palestinian flags flown at half-staff in honor of Castro
PA president hails late revolutionary Cuban president as leader 'who spent his life fighting for causes of justice'
By Tamar Pileggi
An undated file photograph of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and late Cuban Pesident Fidel Castro, made available by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza City of the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Palestinian Authority)
November 26, 2016, 7:38 pm
Palestinian leaders mourn loss of ‘comrade’ Castro
Revolutionary Cuban president hailed for supporting Palestinian resistance to 'imperialism, Zionism, racism and capitalism'
By Tamar Pileggi
Almost a decade after the failed London Agreement, prime minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan meet in the Royal Palace in Amman in December 1995. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 30, 2016, 3:12 pm
Missed opportunity? The 1987 Peres-Hussein peace deal that wasn’t
Pushed by Margaret Thatcher, Shimon Peres believed the London Agreement would have averted the Intifada. Here's what went wrong
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at Khartoum's airport, July 19, 2016. (AFP/Ashraf Shazly)
August 4, 2016, 1:16 am
Ahead of elections, Fatah brags of killing 11,000 Israelis
Despite PA efforts to suppress the group, October's municipal vote could boost Hamas in West Bank
By TOI staff
May 18, 2016, 2:15 pm
That ‘largely non-violent’ Intifada
An erroneous, biased Presbyterian Church committee report on Israel and the Palestinians toes the BDS line
By Michael Gizzi
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a meeting with volunteers at Iowa State University, on Sunday, January 31, 2016, in Ames, Iowa (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
February 1, 2016, 3:08 pm
Where does Bernie Sanders stand on Israel?
The Jewish presidential hopeful, a former kibbutz volunteer, is against the US 'pouring so much military aid into Israel,' vows to be 'evenhanded' in dealing with Israeli-Palestinian conflict
By Eric Cortellessa
Palestinian protesters throw stones at Israeli security forces at the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, October 11, 2015. (Flash90)
January 15, 2016, 10:08 am
Why the West Bank refugee camps refuse to join the Third Intifada
In Jenin and Balata, they're waiting for a one-state solution... or for Islamic State
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a Christmas lunch with members of the Christian Orthodox community in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, January 6, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
January 7, 2016, 1:55 pm
Mahmoud Abbas is here to stay, says Mahmoud Abbas
But with public support at an all-time low, and challengers to his rule multiplying, the Palestinian leader may not survive if he can’t address his people’s problems
By Avi Issacharoff
Israeli security forces stand next to the body of a Palestinian man disguised as a news photographer who carried out a stabbing attack against a soldier at the entrance to the city of Hebron on October 16, 2015 (Hazem Bader/AFP)
December 16, 2015, 12:38 pm
Hebron area is major source of Palestinian stabbers, data shows
Few of the 130 attackers in last three months come from refugee camps; average profile is single, male, aged 21
By Avi Issacharoff
Friends and family carry the bodies of Israeli couple Naama and Eitam Henkin during their funeral at Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem on Friday, October 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 10, 2015, 4:05 am
If the violence dies down, rely on Hamas to reignite it
Abbas speaks of nonviolent protest, but calls to defend al-Aqsa, and his Fatah group is central to anti-Israel incitement. Hamas is much more direct. It is working to uproot both the PA and Israel
By Avi Issacharoff
A Jewish man carries a baby injured in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 3, 2015. The terrorist was shot down by police. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 4, 2015, 3:49 pm
You don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction
Hebrew pundits are out in force proclaiming (or not) the Third Intifada after 2 Israelis slain by a Palestinian terrorist in Old City
By Ilan Ben Zion
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