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Recognition: A First Step

, 23 September 2025

... Few leaders have turned fear into political currency as relentlessly as Benjamin Netanyahu. For decades, he has convinced Israelis – and many people abroad – that recognition of Palestine is not a step towards peace but a concession to violence, a threat to Israel’s survival. Yet by seeking recognition, Palestinians are offering to bind themselves to treaties, laws and obligations – to act under rules rather than beyond them ...

Phantom Bids

Nicholas Blincoe, 21 August 2014

... I arrived a few weeks behind him, in August, to meet the parents of my future wife, the film-maker Leila Sansour. By one of those strange collisions of personal fate and world history – being married to an eligible Palestinian voter also gave me the right to vote – I get to choose who will be the next president of Palestine, which can only add to the ...

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