MER Article Israel's Accountability for Economic Warfare As Israel escalates the military conflict in the occupied Palestinian territories, brushing aside criticism of excessive force by the United Nations and human rights groups, it is tempting to conclude that international law is irrelevant to the real struggle being waged on the ground with bullets an Roger Normand • 9 min read
MER Article Palestinians in Israel The mass demonstrations of Palestinian citizens of Israel during the first week of October represent a new stage of resistance and a transformation in the Palestinians’ struggle in Israel. The demonstrations were the culmination of several years of political ferment during which Palestinians in Isra Hassan Jabareen • 4 min read
MER Article "A Double Responsibility" Azmi Bishara, a contributing editor of this magazine, represents the National Democratic Assembly (NDA), a party advocating cultural autonomy and civil rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel, in the Knesset. He spoke with Middle East Report on November 29, 2000, the day after Israeli Prime Minist Chris Toensing • 10 min read
MER Article Under Siege By mid-November, Israel had imposed over 50 days of closure on the whole of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinian persons and goods were refused entry into Israel, or exit from the confines of the Occupied Territories. Mobility within Palestinian-controlled areas was also curtailed. According to Leila Farsakh • 10 min read
MER Article International Law and the al-Aqsa Intifada Though the Israeli government and the US media persist in describing the second Palestinian intifada as a security crisis or a disruption to the "peace process," in international law, Palestinian resistance to occupation is a legally protected right. For 33 years, Israel has administered a military occupation of Richard Falk • 8 min read
MER Article Hebron Under Curfew As I sit here writing on October 30, 2000, I hear voices outside -- a rare occurrence these days. Our apartment is in H2, the Israeli-controlled part of Hebron. In 1997, an interim agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) split Hebron in two. 100,000 Palestinians live in H1, admin Natasha J. Krahn • 4 min read
MER Article Shatila Dispatch "Before the intifada children used to mock me when I mentioned Palestine. They would say that Palestine was lost, that I was dreaming, that Arafat forgot about us," remarks Rabi' Zaaroura, 15. "Now they have become interested in politics." In the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, the re Mayssun Sukarieh • 4 min read
MER Article Fatah's Tanzim On November 9, 2000, Hussein Abayat and Khalid Salahat, along with around 50 other Palestinians, were visiting one of the seven houses hit by Israeli tank shells the previous night in the West Bank village of Beit Sahour. They then climbed into their Mitsubishi pickup truck to drive back up the hill Graham Usher • 6 min read
MER Article Anatomy of Another Rebellion Anyone watching the widespread clashes that engulfed the Occupied Territories in October and November 2000 must experience a sense of deja vu. The dramatic elements seem like a restaging of events twelve years ago. Young men armed with stones face the mightiest army in the Middle East, mothers mourn, nationalist Rema Hammami, Salim Tamari • 30 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Winter 2000) Langston Hughes famously asked, "What happens to a dream deferred?" As Hughes might have predicted, young Palestinians' long-deferred dreams of self-determination exploded this fall in a new intifada -- an uprising against both the Israeli occupation and the Oslo "peace process" that has done so The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Land, Identity and the Limits of Resistance in the Galilee There has never been anything abstract about the longings of the Palestinians. The object of their longing has always been well defined: the places that had been left behind in 1948. For these places were, and still are, the dominant components of the Palestinian identity. -- Danny Rubinstein Laurie King-Irani • 10 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Fall 2000) Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim, Roger Heacock and Khaled Nashef, eds. Landcapes of Palestine: Equivocal Poetry (Birzeit: Birzeit University Publications, 1999). Ahmad, Eqbal. Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsamian (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000). Amirahmadi, Hooshang. The Caspian Region a The Editors • 1 min read
