![According to a decree issued by President Mahmoud Abbas’s office, the Palestinian Authority (PA) will hold legislative elections on May 22 and a presidential vote on July 31. [Shannon Stapleton/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a82cef4bd4a440828e238b554c1ba478_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
There is much reason to believe the Palestinian elections scheduled for later this year will neither be free nor fair.
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, left, are injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine live on TV at the Sheba Medical Center, the country's largest hospital, in Ramat Gan near the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on December 19, 2020 [Jack Guez/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_8XG6LW.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Israel is refusing to provide the vaccine to the millions of Palestinians it is forcefully ruling over.
![Palestinian demonstrators gather on a hilltop during a protest against Israeli settlements in the town of Beita in the occupied West Bank on March 2, 2020 [File: Reuteres/Mohamad Torokman]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/68a60fe1bc074fd08e14a3f43d1fd16a_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The international community and its weak condemnations will not help Palestinians. It is time for a new strategy.
![A Palestinians protest illegal Israeli settlements near the town of Beita in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on March 11, 2020 [Reuters/Mohamad Torokman]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/81cfad98fc074a9493fdfb62e6808291_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Israel is taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to take more Palestinian land, but the Palestinians will resist.
![The latest addition to the list of TV shows supporting Israel in its propaganda war against the Palestinians is Netflix's The Messiah, writes Hawari [Screen grab/Netflix]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/8c5021352d7c48dea051217ff3fadf7b_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Netflix’s The Messiah is the latest popular TV show supporting Israel in its propaganda war against the Palestinians.
![Israeli security forces pass by a shop selling decorations for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan as they patrol an alley in Jerusalem's Old City on July 8, 2013 [File: Reuters/Ammar Awad]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/44e157bac3044cb78b0ab162bda8da42_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Whatever the Bahrain workshop proposes is doomed to failure. Here is why.
![The UK's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn arrives to speak outside University of London, in London, UK December 3, 2019 [Lisi Niesner/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/9332d82283384b7d8f3420e4aa6be91e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
It is high time for Britain to be held accountable for its colonial crimes in Palestine, and Corbyn can do just that.
![US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a statement on the Trump administration's position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, November 18, 2019 [Yara Nardi/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1da4700fba8a4b20919e1274511f172f_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Palestinians were not shocked by the reversal of US policy on Israeli settlements and they know worse is yet to come.
![A Palestinian woman shouts slogans during a protest against Israel held over the torture of Samer Arbeed, in Jerusalem October 1, 2019 [Ammar Awad/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ebd0c32a7cf741bea1fdedd3f6b9aefa_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
As Israel continues to torture prisoners with impunity, Palestinian calls for humane treatment fall on deaf ears.
![Palestinian women protest in support of women's rights outside the prime minister's office in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/fb85c133d06142a9937ed8a78c621bb8_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Israa, like many others before her, was killed because the men in her life believed they owned her and her body.