Articles & Opinions

Articles and opinion from Pal-Think researchers

Whatever happens in the region, the Palestinians can still reclaim the initiative — By Omar Shaban. Normalisation between some Arab states and Israel is accelerating, serving the determined American drive to integrate Israel into the Arab region first and the…
Early financial retirement: an administrative measure without legal basis — By Omar Shaban. «Financial retirement» is an administrative measure — unlawful, illogical and without parallel outside Palestine — adopted by the previous government in March 2017…
On the chronic electricity crisis — The generators scattered across the Gaza Strip are a standing danger to people's lives — sited with their fuel tanks among homes and on rooftops, unregulated, unregistered, with…
Normalisation, and the need to reclaim the initiative — By Omar Shaban. History does not strike like lightning; it accumulates through small and large events. The erosion of the Palestinian cause's standing began gradually years ago,…
Natural gas follows oil towards a collapse below zero — By Omar Shaban. Natural gas is expected to be the second commodity to see prices collapse below zero, as oil did last April — and the crash in gas may be sharper still, since the…
Trump's «deal»: consequences and responses — Trump's «deal of the century» would have Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state with all Jerusalem its capital, renounce the right of return, accept the annexation of the…
The donors meet in Brussels today — with everyone in crisis — By Omar Shaban. The donors' conference for the Palestinian Authority convenes today in Brussels — some 40 states and institutions, with World Bank, Quartet and UN reports on the…
On abolishing Oslo and dismantling the Palestinian Authority — By Omar Shaban. Many Palestinians have never stopped demanding the annulment of the 1993 Oslo Accords between the PLO and the Israeli government. Meant to end hostility and open…
International organisations put make-up on a painful reality — By Omar Shaban. International organisations often praise Gazans' «resilience» under blockade. The beautiful word means only that the siege has not yet killed them — flattering to…