From the river to the sea
From the river to the sea
Published on 2021-10-13 Justice and peace can only be achieved in the context of a single democratic state that would include, and benefit equally, all residents and repatriated refugees. The establishment of a sovereign, independent Palestinian state on 1967 borders has become unfeasible, largely thanks to Israel’s policy of settlement expansion and its apartheid wall. There are lessons to be …
By Edward Said Jan. 10, 1999 Given the collapse of the Netanyahu Government over the Wye peace agreement, it is time to question whether the entire process begun in Oslo in 1993 is the right instrument for bringing peace between Palestinians and Israelis. It is my view that the peace process has in fact put off the real reconciliation that …
Published on Palestine Chronicle, 2018/04/05 One Democratic State (ODS) has the wind at its back. The last two years have seen a flurry of organizing for ODS, increasingly since December 2017 when the US/Israel axis rejected the central Palestinian demand for its capital, Jerusalem, thereby rendering the Palestinian ‘state’ of the two-state solution once and for all unacceptable.But ODS is not …
Palestinians are dehumanised in death, as they are in life.Those gunned down by Israeli snipers – who, army officials assure us, carefully record every shot – are not husbands, sons, brothers, friends, colleagues, journalists, students or medics. They are ‘terrorists’. Pawns. Cannon fodder.The dehumanisation of Palestinians is, of course, an intrinsic part of decades of colonialism, apartheid and occupation, but …
The following interview was conducted in Nazareth with Awad Abdel Fattah, secretary general of the National Democratic Assembly party. The NDA (Al-Tajamoa in Arabic, and Balad in Hebrew) is one of three parties in the Israeli parliament representing Israel’s Palestinian minority, which numbers 1.4 million and comprises nearly a fifth of the country’s population.The NDA is best known for the …
Naji El Khatib Published on 24/01/2018 A seminar at the University of Paris VIII (24/01/2018) on the issue of nation state in the Near East and the Middle East and a critical reading of the alternative proposals for the State of Citizenship in Palestine and the Confederate State in Syria and Turkey.Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/transglobalstudies A summary text of the intervention of …
Published on 06/2018 “A gem cannot be polished without friction” – Confucius As anger and despair grow exponentially among Palestinians and the world wavers between stupefaction, exasperation and outright complicity in the rapidly accelerating violent extremism of Israeli Zionists, the return to center stage of a simple concept, the ‘One Democratic State’ (ODS) in historic Palestine, is an encouraging development. …
An abstract for the article in Arabic, Romman Mag, 23-03-2018 الدولة العلمانية والصهيونية كخطاب استشراقي وكولونيالي The Secular State for Palestine and its two challenges: The colonial-orientalist model of the Nation-state in the Zionist discourse The Bi-national State in the conservator discourse The Zionist project of the “expropriation” of the land of Palestine has been accompanied by another project: the possession of …
Naji El Khatib The destruction policy of the Yarmouk refugee camp is the same policy of systematic destruction that the Syrian regime has followed since 2011, which aims to destroy the social environment of the revolution and the displacement of those who have rebelled against this dictatorial regime. There is also another economic-financial reason motivated by certain circles around the …
Naji El Khatib Published on 2019-02-04 The secular tendency shares with the different groups, associations and organizations the general principles of the political proposal of a single state in historic Palestine, but differences of approach persist between the components of this movement and this is the case with ” The Campaign for One Democratic State in Palestine “One Democratic State …