Mustafa Barghouti

Este archivo solo abarca los artículos del autor incorporados a este sitio a partir del 1 de diciembre de 2006. Para fechas anteriores realice una búsqueda entrecomillando su nombre.

Palestinian refugees flee across over the Jordan River during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Photograph: UNRWA/AP

MundoOriente Próximo

For us Palestinians, 15 May marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba (the “catastrophe” of 1948), during which about 70% of the Palestinian population was forcibly displaced and more than 500 communities were wiped out completely, in addition to the massacres committed by Zionist militias.

The Nakba of 1948 marked the destruction of the indigenous Palestinian population’s way of life and the establishment of the state of Israel. In the 1967 war, another important turning point, Israel occupied the remaining 22% of historic Palestine.

Yet, in successfully gaining control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel inadvertently unified Palestinians who joined a common struggle for freedom, self-determination, and the right of return to the lands that so many had been violently forced to flee.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoOriente Próximo

One does not need to be an expert on history to realize that the map released by President Donald Trump as a deal for peace between Israel and Palestine is identical to the Bantustans of the defunct South African apartheid system, with one difference: The Palestinian isolation islets are comparable to ghettos. So much so, "ghettostans" is a more suitable label for them.

The proposed deal is disastrous to Palestinians. It calls for the recognition of an "undivided" Jerusalem as the capital of Israel despite the fact that the annexation of East Jerusalem violates International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The proposal also eliminates the question of the Palestinian refugees' right of return, as per UN General Assembly Resolution 194, which affirms the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes of origin, and which was marked for discussion at some later period within the Oslo peace negotiations in the 1990s.…  Seguir leyendo »