The father of 11-year-old Abdul Rahman Nofal contacted me asking for help. His son was shot in the leg during Gaza’s “March of Return” protests. The territory’s dilapidated health care system could not save the little boy’s leg, as it was later amputated.

The head of the Arab Joint List alliance in the Israeli Knesset, Ayman Odeh, described the passing of the racist Jewish Nation-State Law as “the death of our democracy.” Did he truly believe that prior to this law he had lived in a true democracy? 4

Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” will fail. This is because Palestinians will not exchange their 70-year-long struggle for freedom for US cash; nor will Israel accept it, even if there is a demilitarized Palestinian state in the West Bank.

Europe is facing the most significant refugee crisis since the Second World War. All attempts at resolving the issue have failed, mostly because they have ignored the root causes of the problem. 

What is taking place in Palestine is not a “conflict.” We readily utilize the term but, in fact, it is misleading. It equates oppressed Palestinians with Israel, a military power that stands in violation of numerous United Nations resolutions.