PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

by Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran Tehran, August 21 – Diplomacy and politics are all about compromise. Both arts require flexibility, creative thinking, and efforts to craft win-win situations in which all parties to the ...

by Detective Adrian Monk San Francisco, August 12 – Numerous elements of the disastrous ammonium nitrate explosion in the Lebanese capital last week give cause for alarm. Nevertheless, one the more common features of such incidents remained noticeably absent: the ...

By Congresswoman Wata Bout Washington, August 3 – My political allies and I are sick and tired of finding our past statements invoking classic notions of Jewish power and perfidy used against us as a political cudgel, as if our ...

by Roger Waters, washed-up musician London, July 23 – My social justice allies and I have grown weary of partisan accusations of “hypocrisy” surrounding my support for Boycott, Divest, Sanctions measures against Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians, while ...

by Saeb Erekat Ramallah, July 14 – Don’t believe the Zionist apologist distortions of the English language. Trust me, when we Palestinians repeat as we always have that only an Arab Muslim state is acceptable between the Jordan and Mediterranean, ...

by Yonah Lieberman, If Not Now New York, July 3 – Yesterday’s series of protests in solidarity with Palestine and against Israeli annexation of Palestinian land attracted so many attendees that at our best-attended event, in Philadelphia, we could almost ...

by Michael Sfard, attorney Tel Aviv, June 24 – American and Israeli citizens have for years pursued cases in the courts against various Arab or Palestinian entities, charging that the latter played a role in the financing or otherwise played ...

by Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, comedian Paris, June 15 – Indications of social polarization and “othering” precede the 2016 US presidential campaign, though we can all acknowledge that since then the general sense of alienation has only increased; it remains of ...

By Europe Brussels, June 4 – Perhaps we need to explain an important point that you fail to understand, a point that undergirds the framework of our international funding and policy, especially regarding the Middle East: we, the European Union, enjoy ...

by Imam Aswalo Mafissis Mogadishu, Somalia, May 21 –  Let us dispense once and for all with the wrong-headed notion that Jewish exile and longing for return can in any way trump the Islamic claim to Palestine, because exploring those ...