Al-Shabaka Commentary Rosemary Sayigh

The Price of Statelessness: Palestinian Refugees From Syria

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Al-Shabaka Policy Brief Tariq Dana

Palestinian Civil Society: What Went Wrong?

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Al-Shabaka Policy Brief Samer Abdelnour

Beyond South Africa: Understanding Israeli Apartheid

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Al-Shabaka Policy Brief Osamah Khalil

“Who are You?”: The PLO and the Limits of Representation

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An Open Debate on Palestinian Representation

Al-Shabaka Roundtable
Rana Barakat,
Mouin Rabbani,
Dina Omar,
Fajr Harb,
Hani al-Masri,
As'ad Ghanem,
Yassmine Hamayel,
Aziza Khalidi

Is it better to try to revive the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and its institutions or should Palestinians build a new national movement? The participants in this roundtable debate the pros and cons of starting from square one, as Osamah Khalil suggested in a recent policy brief. Additional roundtable insights: a different articulation of the PLO’s value, and a question mark regarding the usefulness of elections to a national liberation movement.

Al-Shabaka in the Media

28 March 2013
Opinion by Nadia Hijab

The dust is settling after US President Barack Obama's visit to Israel, the occupied Palestinian territory and Jordan, and it is now easier to see the extent of the debris he has left behind. It is perhaps at the geopolitical level that Obama has done the most damage - and that to the weakest party, the Palestinian authority, he met. The surprise reconciliation he engineered between Israel and Turkey has reversed the only regional realignment in the Palestinians' favour for years. 

29 March 2013
Opinion by Sam Bahour

Given that Israel is costing U.S. taxpayers over $3 billion annually and has put the U.S. in a weaker position in the Middle East because of its intransigence, it is past due that every American demand of their government to withdraw its resources and political clout from entities that are moving the region away from peace, instead of closer to it.