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Professor As'ad Abdul Rahman

Professor As'ad Abdul Rahman

Professor As'ad Abdul Rahman is the Chairman of the Palestinian Encyclopaedia.

 Recent Articles

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    Friday May 10

    Sinister propaganda, gross violations

    What concerns the jurists on the Russell Tribunal the most is the new culture of violence being perpetrated by the religious schools and the extreme-right Rabbinic Council teaching Israeli youth ‘to purify the land of Israel from any Palestinian presence’

  • Friday Apr 26

    Lingering doubts over a third Intifada

    Popular uprisings against injustice do not usually wait for a permission for them to be launched — they erupt spontaneously

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    Friday Apr 12

    BDS puts Palestine above self-interest

    Civil movement maintains unity of its groups by relying on the Palestinian identity

  • Friday Mar 29

    Netanyahu isolated by his own policies

    The government ought to realise now that any mess created by it will be left for Tel Aviv to clean up without a finger being lifted by America or Europe

  • story 5
    Friday Mar 15

    Fatah-Hamas unity is the only solution

    Vested interests manipulate the state of disunity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip ‘authorities’, allowing Israel all the time it needs to Judaise historical Palestine and marginalise the Palestinians

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    Friday Mar 1

    Israel’s public image is taking a beating

    Every decision by Netanyahu’s government to expand colonies on Palestinian land increases his international isolation and will eventually take its toll on his strained relationship with Obama

  • story 7
    Friday Feb 15

    Netanyahu’s political future in grave uncertainty

    A weak Netanyahu can neither support himself internally nor internationally and is going to open the door wide for the Europeans and White House to intervene

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    Saturday Feb 2

    Ripe ideas in a promising framework

    When votes of Arab-Americans and Latino-Americans are added, the political map in America will be changed positively

  • Saturday Jan 19

    Seeing through the Isareli game plan

    The world is only watching while Tel Aviv is doing all it can with impunity in its ethnic cleansing process in historic Palestine

  • Friday Jan 4

    Sinister motives of a Zionist state

    Israel has stuck its head in the sand in self-denial of the apartheid/colonial reality of its policy

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