The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
Tag: Mahmoud Abbas
Jun 6, 2026
Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
JEREMY SCAHILL AND JAWA AHMAD, DROP SITE NEWS, DEC 01, 2025
Trump’s Plan for Gaza
DROP SITE NEWS, NOV 18, 2025
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The Gaza “Ceasefire” Is at a Crucial Crossroads
JEREMY SCAHILL, DROP SITE NEWS, FEB 24, 2025
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How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law
Mobilisation of violent settlers has intensified Palestinians’ fears of attacks and displacement Alison Killing, Chris Campbell and Peter Andringa in…
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Israel kills prominent militant in deadliest West Bank raids since Gaza war began
BY MAJDI MOHAMMED AND MELANIE LIDMAN, Associated Press, August 29, 2024 TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli…
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‘Israel always sold the occupation as legal. The ICJ now terrifies them’
Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu unpacks the ICJ opinion on Israel’s military regime, and the lessons…
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BY MIKE CORDER, ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 19, 2024 THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top U.N.…
aid, annexation, apartheid, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, blockade, discrimination, Gaza, Hamas, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Ireland, Israel, Israeli, Jerusalem, Jewish, Judea, justice, land, law, Madison, Mahmoud Abbas, media, military, negotiations, occupation, Palestine, Palestinian, Palestinian Authority (PA), peace, Rafah, resources, Samaria, settlers, South Africa, Spain, terrorism, two-state, United Nations (UN), United States, veto, war, water, West Bank, worldUNRWA Crisis: Beyond Dollars and Cents
Zaha Hassan, Palestine Square | Institute for Palestine Studies, August 3, 2018 “Continuing services to…
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Democracy Now!, December 30, 2016
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Juan Cole, Informed Comment, March 16, 2010
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Lee Brown, Cap Times, November 6, 2009
Catastrophe at Rafah Crossing: More Than 35 Dead—and Counting
Mohammed Omer, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, September/October 2007 PERCHED ATOP A suitcase and…
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· Seizure would allow huge expansion of settlements · Move seen as rush to make…
Beneath the Hideous Veneer of ‘Security’
Jennifer Loewenstein, CounterPunch, 23 september, 2007
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Jennifer Loewenstein, The Progressive, June 26, 2007
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Mohammed Omer, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May/June 2005 THEY BREATHE the same air,…
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