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Nazi Defense Minister Benny Gantz. (Photo: via Facebook) Nazi Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said that Israel will not be removing any illegal Nazi JEWISH settlements from the Nazi occupied West Bank and will maintain them in the long term, Foreign Policy reported yesterday. Speaking to the news site, he addressed several issues related to Iran, the region and Palestine, saying: “We need two political entities here.” Nazi Gantz met with the Palestinian Authority (PA) President two weeks ago and discussed several issues, including stability in the occupied West Bank and security cooperation. “Abbas is still dreaming of the 1967 lines [as the basis for an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and an end to the conflict] – this won’t happen,” Foreign Policy reported Naz...

Israel is doing nothing to help the PA to survive Photo by Shoah By: Motasem A Dalloul Read more athttps://english.palinfo.com/48361@Copyright The Palestinian Information Center Defending the meetings, Gantz revealed that they were "solely for security purposes." His office said that Gantz had told Abbas about a number of goodwill gestures, including a series of measures to strengthen the PA economy, as well as its security cooperation with Israel. "It was a meeting about security, where we discussed security cooperation and joint activities. We want to strengthen the moderate forces in the area," said the ministry. "The two also discussed shaping the security, civilian and economic reality" in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israelis from the far right to...

Mahmood Mamdani believes Palestinians and Israelis should build a state that transcends their national identities. Here are three problems with his case. By Dana El Kurd  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stands with Mpho Franklyn Parks Tau, Mayor of the city of Johannesburg, in front of the new Mandela statue during the inauguration of Nelson Mandela Square in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 26, 2016. (Flash90) “Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities,” by Mahmood Mamdani, Harvard University Press, 2020. The “Unity Intifada” which began in May has lent a great sense of urgency to discussions around the future of Palestine. Analysts and activists are increasingly debating the adoption of a rights-based approach to count...

BY RAMZY BAROUD Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair When the Israeli Knesset (parliament) failed to renew what is commonly referred to as the Family Reunification Law, news reports and analyses misrepresented the story altogether. The even split of 59 MKs voting in favor of the law and 59 against it gave the erroneous impression that Israeli lawmakers are equally divided over the right of Palestinians to obtain permanent residency status or citizenship in Israel through marriage. Nothing could be further away from the truth. Originally passed in 2003, the Citizenship and Entry Law was effectively a ban on Palestinian marriage. Under the guise of ‘security’, the law prohibited Palestinians in the West Bank, who marry Israeli citizens, to permanently move to Israel, obtain work, ...