Al-Shabaka Policy Members Nidal Sliman and Valentina Azarov review the value of UNESCO in the quest to fulfill Palestinian rights and to apply the relevant international law instruments to the case of Palestine.
By Yousef Munayyer
In Yarmouk refugee camp, the largest concentration of Palestinians in Syria among the nine refugee camps there, the Palestinian population is trapped and suffering. The camp sits just south of Damascus and its strategic location has made it part of the battlefield, leaving refugees who would rather take a neutral stance for their own safety caught in the middle.
David Sheen reports on the striking parallels between Israel’s current attempts to deport all African refugees and its historic attempts to marginalize non-Jewish populations in the state including Palestinians.
Nidal Bitari, a former resident of Yarmouk, and Christopher McGrath of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) discuss the rapidly deteriorating situation in Yarmouk Camp, home of the largest Palestinian population in Syria, due to the current siege on the camp.
Dr. Morad Elsana will discuss the implications of the Prawer Plan in depth, focusing on the impact of the plan’s goals on the thousands of Palestinian Bedouin living in the Naqab.
By Yousef Munayyer
There are few individuals in the modern history of Israel/Palestine whose actions have been as consistently destructive as those of Ariel Sharon. Sharon, who died on January 11, had been involved in Israel’s war machine as early as 1948. He was known for his cut-throat attitude on the battlefield, often with wanton disregard for civilian lives. Time and again, Sharon left some of the bloodiest marks on the history of Palestine.
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