Category: Analysis

Why it matters so little what Mahmoud Abbas says

Why it matters so little what Mahmoud Abbas says

Also featured at the Palestine Chronicle – by Tariq Shadid – It has not gone unnoticed that Palestinians are showing little interest in Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the United Nations, which he held on the 27th of September. Most Palestinians have no idea what he said, and do not care to know it. There is quite a contrast between the...

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How to deal with Zionism: oppose, expose, dispose

By Tariq Shadid – Now that the ‘Oslo peace process’ is clinically dead, the struggle of the Palestinian people is finding its way back to its original purpose: opposing the inherently racist power structure of Zionism. In terms of strategic approach this can be summarized in the ‘three poses against Zionism’: oppose, expose and dispose. From politicians to people The...

Can Zionism fool all of the people all of the time?

By Tariq Shadid – also published at Palestine Chronicle – The Israeli colonization of Palestine continues unabated, and the political show that protects and enables it has become a boring and repetitive charade. At the same time, it serves to feed the agendas, wallets and speeches of politicians and others who like to pretend that they believe in a ‘negotiated...

‘Futile Dialogue’ : a Zionist strategy

By Tariq Shadid – The struggle for Palestinian rights has always been operating under tremendous pressure. The Zionist war machine has never ceased its expansionist drift ever since it forced its illegal roots into Palestinian soil in the beginning of the 20th century, and has never changed its modus operandi. It has always paired ruthless military aggression, ethnic cleansing and...