Tag Archives: Palestine update

The UN system trips, tumbles and falls- yet again

   Edition 2: No. 111 The UN system trips, tumbles and falls- yet again Palestinian resolution for an end to the occupation fails in U.N. Council By Ranjan Solomon* Expectedly, the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday rejected a Palestinian resolution calling for Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories by late 2017. The resolution called for…

Israeli Genocide of Palestinian Olive trees

Edition 2: No. 82 Israeli Genocide of Palestinian Olive trees Editor’s note: This article by Dr. Elias Akleh*, a twice-evicted Arab (first in 1948 and again in 1967) analyses the politics of hate contained in the Zionist campaign of uprooting Olive Trees. Akleh refers to the uprooting of Olive trees as an annual ‘terrorist harvest ritual’…