Perspectives
Expert Q&A: Killing with Impunity, Israel’s Two-Tiered Legal System
Emily Schaefer Omer-Man is the Coordinator of the Criminal Accountability of Israeli Security Forces project for Yesh Din. Q&A Q - Earlier this month, a senior Israeli army officer shot and killed 17-year-old Mohammed Kasbah as he fled after throwing a stone at the officer's vehicle in the occupied West Bank. It was the latest in a series of incidents over the past year or so in which Israeli…
Expert Q&A: Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress - Israel & Iran
Expert Trita Parsi Founder and president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), and author of A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran (2012) and Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States (2007). Q&A Q - According to reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unhappy with President Obama's approach to negotiations with Iran…
Expert Q&A: Unrest in Occupied East Jerusalem
For context on recent violence and unrest in occupied East Jerusalem, the IMEU offers the following Q&A with Ingrid Jaradat Gassner of the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem. Q&A Q - Tensions in Jerusalem, particularly in the eastern, occupied Palestinian section of the city, have been extremely high since the summer. How would you describe the current situation? IJG - “The…
Expert Q&A: On Israel’s Displacement of the Palestinian Bedouin
Expert Suhad Bishara, Attorney and Director of Land and Planning Rights Unit for Adalah: The Legal Center for Minority Rights in Israel. Q&A Q - On September 16, Haaretz newspaper reported that the Israeli government is advancing plans to forcibly relocate 12,500 Bedouin Palestinians from lands just east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank to planned communities in the Jordan Valley. Why does…
Expert Q&A: Palestinian National Unity & The Schism Between Fatah and Hamas
For further reference, see our recently released expert Q&A: The New Palestinian Peace Plan, Ceasefire Talks & Israel's Latest Land Grab, and our recently released fact sheet, 50 Days of Death & Destruction: Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge.” Experts Diana Buttu, Ramallah-based analyst, former legal advisor to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian…
Expert Q&A: The New Palestinian Peace Plan, Gaza Ceasefire Talks, & Israel’s Latest Land Grab
For further reference, see our recently released expert Q&A: Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch on Being Denied Entry to Gaza, and our recently released fact sheet Putting Palestinians “On a Diet”: Israel’s Siege & Blockade of Gaza. Experts Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, former advisor to Palestinian negotiators, and author of Brokers of…
Expert Q&A: Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch on Being Denied Entry to Gaza
Experts Edith Garwood, Amnesty International USA Country Specialist on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Israel/OPT/PA). Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa Division. Q&A Q - Israel is currently denying representatives of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch entry to Gaza, and Egypt is blocking entrance to Palestinian…
Expert Q&A: Israel’s Assault on Gaza, Aims & US Involvement
Experts Diana Buttu: Human rights attorney, Ramallah-based analyst, and former advisor to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian negotiators. Yousef Munayyer: Executive Director of the Jerusalem Fund and the Palestine Center in Washington, DC. Osamah Khalil: Assistant Professor of United States & Middle East History at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of…