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  • May 4, 2014

    Another BBC stunt to polish Israel's image?

    Reports in Haaretz say that the BBC’s Top Gear team has been seen entering Israel from Jordan. “Viewers,” said the newspaper’s Daniel Schmil, “will be able to hear exactly...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Another formula to domesticate Hamas

    Ever since Hamas came to power in 2006, calls have come from across the political spectrum stressing the necessity of engaging with the democratically elected Islamic movement. In the...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    The blackmailing of American democracy

    As the US mid-term elections draw tantalisingly closer the battle lines have been drawn. At the centre of them all is the Palestine issue. This is the message from...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    My Loyalty Oath

    By Jonathan Cook In all likelihood, I will be one of the very first non-Jews expected to swear loyalty to Israel as an ideology rather than as a state....

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Chas Freeman: Engaging the Middle East - after the Cairo speech

    By Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.), Tufts University, October 15, 2010 As an American, I look at the results of U.S. policies in the Middle East and...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Headlines twist Netanyahu's devious diplomatic games

    The BBC is often accused of bias when it comes to the way it reports on the Middle East conflict; Zionists say that it is anti-Israel, while pro-Palestinians say...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Israeli settlers burn yet another mosque in occupied Palestine

    Hours after a meeting between the Israel Defence Forces’ Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, and his Palestinian interlocutors in Bethlehem, Israeli settlers have set fire to the Ambiya Mosque...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    The Ineffable Lobby

    By Paul R. Pillar Lately one hasn’t heard much of the screaming against the observation that supporters of a certain Middle Eastern state exercise influence over U.S. policy that...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Obama is humiliated by Israeli blackmail

    It is shameful to see the United States grovelling before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extreme right-wing coalition government. The US government is Israel’s biggest political and...

    Commentary & Analysis

  • May 4, 2014

    Michael White in conversation with Sir Gerald Kaufman MP

    On Sunday 26 September, the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) held a joint fringe event with the Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) at the Labour Party...

    Commentary & Analysis