Special report by PEOPLE’S WORLD
ON November 18, just days before the 50th anniversary of United Nations Resolution 242, the US State Department took its first step towards severing ties with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO).
The timing of this decision could not be any more profound.
The first formal contact between the US and the PLO occurred in mid-December 1988, when US ambassador to Tunisia Robert H Pelletreau Jr picked up the phone to call the PLO headquarters in Tunis to schedule formal talks.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights


