Palestinian statehood: a turning-point

Victor Kattan 6 July 2011
The Palestinian ambition of becoming a full member-state of the United Nations is approaching a crucial moment. A combination of numbers and strategy will bring its fulfilment closer, says Victor Kattan.

After Obama’s Middle East speech: save Palestinian reconciliation

René Wildangel 1 June 2011
To get beyond the current impasse in the Israel-Palestine conflict, the "Quartet principles" need to be abandoned in favor of an active promotion of Fatah-Hamas reconciliation.

Bonfire of the experts: the Arab uprisings and the Israeli-Palestinian question

Tony Klug 1 June 2011
We need to understand that patience on the Palestinian side has almost completely run out after many fruitless years of aimless negotiations and feeble international mediation. The Palestinians – exasperated by US reluctance or impotence - see the shelf-life of the long-running but deeply flawed peace process expiring later this year.

Why Hamas has no need for Saatchi and Saatchi.

Wasseem El Sarraj 17 May 2011
There is little evidence that suggests that sanitizing or transforming the Palestinian brand produces much of a return, at least not for Palestinians.

The Hamas-Fatah unity deal: regional and international power dynamics

Corinna Mullin 3 May 2011
Despite the best efforts of the US and its European and regional allies to ignore them, international and regional factors that enabled the domestic power structures to remain in place for so long have also been the focus of protesters’ grievances and demands.

Israeli Foreign Minister urges boycott of PA – Hamas government

Oliver Scanlan

On Wednesday, a historic agreement was reached between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in Cairo, reconciling the two factions and laying the groundwork for a new, interim government.

Gaza on my mind

Jonathan Chadwick 21 April 2011
The latest of the theatre director’s ‘strange days’ in Cairo, while waiting to hear if he and his partner have permission to enter Gaza; caught in stasis while extraordinary events unfold around them. Updated.

Gaza Theatre

Jonathan Chadwick 14 April 2011
A theatre director is stuck in Cairo waiting to hear if he and his partner have permission to enter Gaza. These letters capture ‘strange days’, as they are caught in stasis while extraordinary events unfold around them

Juliano Mer Khamis, 1958-2011

Jonathan Holmes 5 April 2011
In memory of the Jewish Palestinian and Israeli actor, director, film-maker and activist who founded the Freedom Theatre in the Jenin refugee camp.

Why reconsider your report Judge Goldstone?

Alaa Tartir 4 April 2011
A Palestinian student asks why the report was retracted, what kind of pressure did Richard Goldstone come under, and why now?

Towards statehood: three Palestinian interviews, January 2011

Manuela Paraipan 24 February 2011
The problems inside Palestinian society as well as those between Palestine and Israel have solutions. The process may be long, difficulties are bound to appear. But with enough local and international commitment there is no impassable barrier. There are people - probably not a few on both sides - that realize that there is now an opportunity to properly address the many decades-old issues. Manuela Paraipan presents three interviews with representatives of political and civil society.
These interviews continue a series of conversations on the issue of Palestinian statehood. For the first part, an interview with PECDAR President Dr Mohammad Shteyyeh, click here

Palestine and the lottery ticket

Manuela Paraipan 24 February 2011
An interview in January 2011 with Dr Mohammad Shteyyeh - President of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR) - who holds the rank of Minister, on the broad range of challenges faced by the Palestinians as well as Fatah's current political stance towards Hamas.

"Towards statehood" — click to read the continuation of Manuela Paraipan's interviews

Contested narratives and security implications as protests continue across the Arab world

Oliver Scanlan
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Tahrir Square burns: a postcard from Egypt

Daniel Bruno Sanz 28 January 2011
An American in Cairo reflects on the experience of events there today and calls on the US to throw off its ties to the soon-to-be ancien regime

Egyptians defy government ban in second day of protests

Rukeyya Khan 26 January 2011
Egyptians defy government ban in second day of anti-government protests. Tunisia issues arrest warrant for Ben Ali. UK government revises control orders. Palestinian Authority defiant following Al Jazeera release of leaked documents. All this and more in today’s security briefing.

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Niki Seth-Smith is a freelance journalist and co-editor of OurKingdom.

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