Palestine

The Academy had to recognize Palestine as a nation. Only then could Hany Abu-Assad's film Paradise be nominated.

The State of Israel has a lot to thank the UN for. As a thank you, they should follow international law.

Israeli and Palestinian archaeologists have been digging for decades for evidence that their site has more right to the area than the other. Edward Said and Sigmund Freud are also archaeologists, in a transferred sense, and they show another way to look: Instead of throwing away what does not fit, it is precisely what does not fit that should be lifted up and regarded as important "findings", writes Stian Bromark in this essay.

Memory retains identity.

In fifty years, Israel has the entire Mediterranean-Jordan area. There was never any Palestinian state.

A peace scientist has poked the national symbol "the Oslo process". This is how it gets into trouble.

Edward W. Said will probably continue to influence the debates of his new exile.

Israel has reached a new low in its fine-tuned abuse policy.

First he did everything right. Now he does everything wrong. Well then, for Ariel Sharon that he has made his main opponent hostage to his own politics.

The riots in the past few weeks in the Middle East may be the end of the Oslo Agreement, but hopefully the beginning of something new and better, we believe Edward Said.