Tuesday, April 21, 2015

We cannot liberate Palestine with colonized minds

A Palestinian woman waves a flag in front of Israeli occupation forces during a Land Day protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, 28 March. Land Day commemorates Israel’s violent suppression of protests by Palestinians against government land expropriations in the Galilee in 1976.
 (Shadi Hatem / APA images)
20 April 2015
Electronic Intifada

The inability — or unwillingness — of both the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authorityand the Hamas-led administration in Gaza to provide a relatively acceptable example of good governance based on giving ordinary people a say in decisions that affect them means that serious soul-searching is required among those holding leadership positions in Palestine.