Palestine’s impossible democracy dilemma
Ramzy Baroud
March 08, 2021 22:46
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Palestinian factions in Ramallah, Israeli-occupied West Bank, Sept. 3, 2020. (Reuters)
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Many Palestinian intellectuals and political analysts find themselves in the unenviable position of having to declare a stance on whether they support or reject upcoming Palestinian elections that are scheduled for May 22 and July 30. But there are no easy answers.
The long-awaited decree by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas last January to hold legislative and presidential elections in the coming months was widely welcomed, not as a triumph for democracy but as the first tangible positive outcome of dialogue between rival Palestinian factions, mainly Abbas’ Fatah party and Hamas.
Israeli-based Arab human rights organisation â
B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories - is becoming politically involved in the unresolved 100-years conflict between Jews and Arabs over sovereignty in the territory formerly called
Palestine.
B’Tselem has adopted a belligerent political anti-Jewish stance.
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A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid” â
B’Tselem claims:
More than 14 million people, roughly half of them Jews and the other half Palestinians, live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea under a single rule â¦Â the entire area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River is organized under a single principle: advancing and cementing the supremacy of one group â Jews â over another â Palestinians⦠There is one regime governing the entire area and the people living in it, based on a single organizing pri
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US media too often ignores killings of Palestinian journalists
Ray Hanania
March 06, 2021 03:31
An Israeli soldier points his gun towards a Palestinian protester during a demonstration against Jewish settlements in the village of Beit Dajan in the occupied northern West Bank on March 5, 2021. (AFP / ABBAS MOMANI)
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The Palestinian Journalism Syndicate last year reported that Israel had killed 46 journalists in the preceding two decades. Meanwhile, the Committee to Protect Journalists says that 18 journalists have been killed in Israel and the Occupied Territories in the past 28 years. Which figure is correct, one might ask. But one should really ask: Why doesn’t anyone care?