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Electoral Amendments or a Restructuring of the Palestinian Political Scene?
Despite all the headlines that accompanied the announcement of the new amendments to the Palestinian electoral law, which were presented to the public as a step towards expanding political participation, enhancing democratic representation, and making room for youth and women, a careful reading of t...
Migration… The First Meeting of the Coming State
On the last night of the past Hijri year, just minutes before time left its office, an exceptional meeting was held.
Attendees:
Jerusalem.
Patience.
The Palestinian memory.
The souls of the martyrs.
And numerous postponed wishes.
As for despair…
It was not invited.
For reasons related to mi...
Who Will Save the Palestinian Employee? Towards a National System for Family Financial Sec...
While headlines in the news broadcasts are filled with discussions about the clearance crisis, budget deficits, and the accumulation of public debt, another crisis is quietly forming within tens of thousands of Palestinian households. This crisis typically does not find its way to the front pages, y...
Gaza, Iran, and the Axis of Resistance: Between Rhetoric and State Calculations
The war on Gaza has raised fundamental questions about the nature and limits of regional alliances, and about the extent to which ideological slogans can withstand state considerations and their strategic interests. The confrontation has served as a practical test for the concept of the "Axis of Res...
Will American-Iranian Understandings Open a Path to Ending the War on Gaza?
While Washington and Tehran are reaching understandings to stop the war, which may reshape regional priorities, a fundamental question emerges: Will ending the war on Gaza become part of the new stability arrangements, or will the Palestinian cause remain outside the settlement equations despite its...
Current Situation Assessment .. In Light of the American-Iranian Agreement
Assuming the accuracy of the circulating data regarding an American-Iranian understanding aiming to end the state of open conflict in the region and to recalibrate the engagement on various fronts, including the Lebanese front, the region appears to be poised for a delicate transitional phase that m...
The Palestinian Financial Crisis: A Single Hand Does Not Clap
It is easy to point fingers at the government and hold the Ministry of Finance responsible for any delay in salaries or decline in public services, but it is more challenging to read the Palestinian financial scene in all its complexities and to understand the extent of the exceptional pressures fac...
19 Years Since the Hamas Coup and This is the Result
After returning to the Gaza Strip following my resignation from the Fayyad government in February 2008, Dr. Ghazi Hamad, a friend of mine, contacted me and said he had arranged a meeting for me with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. It would not have been appropriate to refuse the request. Indeed, this...
The Major Gap in the Post-War Plan for Gaza: Everyone Talks About Hamas... No One Talks Ab...
An Israeli National Security Institute (INSS) paper on the future of Gaza post-war raises the question that has been occupying the security and political establishment in Israel for months: how can Hamas’s return to power in the Strip be prevented?
The paper suggests a combination of continued mili...
The Goalkeeper of the World
In football, the role of the goalkeeper is clear and defined; he stands before his net trying to prevent goals from entering. In international politics, however, Donald Trump has invented a new role that was not known before: the goalkeeper of the whole world. A man who decided to stand at the borde...
From the Deception of the Gaza Siege to the Deception of Hamas's Weaponry
One of the paradoxes that reaches the level of deception—especially during the rule of Hamas—is the issue of the Gaza blockade; since Hamas captured the Israeli soldier Shalit in 2006, Hamas has filled the world with noise about the siege of Gaza, while in reality, it was seeking to lift the siege o...
On the Edge of Salary ... and on the Edge of the Homeland ..
Three years have passed, and the Palestinian public sector employee stands on the edge of waiting, not knowing if he is an employee receiving a salary for his work or a professional beggar mastering the art of standing in lines of hope. For three years he has been receiving meager salaries, akin to...