Daoud Kuttab

Palestinians were not only unhappy with the biased actions of the Trump administration, but they felt it gave the right-wing Israeli prime minister a green light to put further pressure on them.

Khalil al-Halabi insists his son, who has been jailed on charges of aiding Hamas, is innocent and a humanitarian.

Islam has been dominant in Jerusalem for 1,210 out of the last 1,388 years.

Let us now try to apply this kind of autonomy to the occupied territories. Palestinians already have autonomy. What is lacking are political rights.

I still vividly remember what a World Bank official once told me, “What Palestine needs is the end of occupation and restrictions for its economy to boom.

If previous examples are to go by, it is unlikely that the current ceasefire will last a long time, unless important steps were taken to cement it.

If Palestinians can’t vote in the coming Israeli elections, they will one day have that right within either a sovereign Palestinian state or within a state with equal rights for all its citizens.

Even scarier are the rumors that radical Jewish groups have their eyes on the very same location for a future synagogue in an attempt to convert Islam’s third holiest mosque into the lost temple.

It is no secret that Jordanian evangelicals have issues with the authorities, which has not accepted request for formal recognition on par with traditional denominations.

Pressure, harassment and unadulterated racism is ugly, but it will not stop Palestinian Jerusalemites from insisting that they are not going anywhere.