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Items by Motasem A Dalloul
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The international community is paralysed in the face of Israel’s colonial settlements
The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has finally approved the settlement bill, which legalises the theft of private Palestinian land for illegal colony-settlement purposes. This means that around 55 illegal settlement outposts built over the past 25 years without the explicit consent of any Israeli government are now “legal”. Although the...
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The Paris peace conference was like a funeral without a corpse
The conference held in Paris on Sunday looking at the Palestine-Israel conflict concluded with the usual final statement calling for Palestinian and Israeli commitment to the two-state solution; among other things it encouraged “meaningful” direct negotiations and called on both sides to “refrain from unilateral steps”. The conference was...
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The reality of the electricity crisis in Gaza
Images show Gazans protesting against the lack of electricity in the Gaza Strip. Images by MEMO photographer on the ground, Mohammad Asad....
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Israeli politicians and media are allies in corruption
Recent revelations about corruption charges levelled against Benjamin Netanyahu, which included a conversation between the Israeli prime minister and media mogul Arnon Mozes, can be added to the evidence for the belief that senior Israeli politicians use their public positions to pursue their personal interests. For Netanyahu, it is...
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A show trial and a mockery of justice is the best that Palestinians can expect
The Israeli military court in Jaffa found Sergeant Elor Azaria, 19, guilty of manslaughter for shooting dead a motionless and wounded Palestinian in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron last year. Azaria will be sentenced in mid-January and is facing a maximum of 20 years in prison. Many...
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Egypt is opening the Rafah Crossing, but does this signal the easing of the siege?
The Egyptian authorities have recently opened the Rafah Crossing several times within a very short period. Rafah is the main gateway to the world for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, so is Egypt attempting to ease the ten-year-old Israeli-led and internationally backed siege? After a few years of...
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How do Palestinians and Israelis view Trump's victory?
Once it was known for certain that Donald Trump had won the presidential election in the US, both Palestinians and Israelis expressed their hopes and expectations about a Trump presidency. With each side expecting that he will help them to achieve their goals, the clear differences in what this...
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The West should come clean about its double standards in the Middle East
Luxembourg’s foreign minister accused the Turkish authorities on Monday of using methods in its crackdown on the failed coup plotters reminiscent of those used by the Nazis against the Jews during World War Two. Speaking to Germany’s Deutschlandfunk radio, Jean Asselborn said that people were fired, their names were...
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Protesters at UNRWA office in Gaza stopped from receiving drinking water
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) prevented protesters at its head office in Gaza from receiving drinking water, the Association of Engineers – Gaza Governorates said yesterday. More than 120 Palestinian engineers have staged a protest for the fifth day inside...
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New Camp David with a Saudi touch
When Egypt signed the peace agreement known as Camp David with Israel in 1978, Arab countries were up in arms, accusing it of breaching the united Arab stance towards the occupation state – no to normalisation or peace talks. As a sign of their anger, they called for an...