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  • March 29, 2014

    The upcoming hurricane: Egypt cultivates and Israel harvests

    The Egyptian government is cultivating the events and Israel is immediately reaping the benefits. As soon as the Court of Urgent Matters in Cairo decided to ban Hamas activities,...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Algerian politics in crisis and a national tragedy

    Whatever the readings, descriptions, analyses or interpretations of the events in Algeria may be, and whatever motives, tests of will, conflicts, interest or privileges are, in the end the...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Cameron's Knesset cuckoo-land

    David Cameron was visiting the Israeli government in occupied Palestine this week. Reading his speech to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, it is striking just how grovelling it is. Cameron...

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  • March 29, 2014

    On the Jewishness of Israel

    This story began with the emergence of the Zionist movement and their determination to establish a Jewish state in the Promised Land, also known as Palestine, at the expense...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Egyptian opposition is crying over spilt milk

    President Mohamed Morsi made a speech right before June 30, the day he stood before the people in one of the greatest appearances made by any politician in the...

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  • March 29, 2014

    UN needs more than 'concern' over murder of Palestinians

    Israel’s most recent murderous rampage elicited a spectrum fluctuating between statements and silence from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and James Rawley, UN deputy special coordinator for the Middle...

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  • March 29, 2014

    One Year On: The campaign to end Ben & Jerry's complicity with Israel's occupation

    On 13 March 2013, Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel (VTJP) launched an international campaign calling on Ben & Jerry’s, an iconic leader of the socially responsible business...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Atrocities in Syria and the status of Syrian refugees in Turkey

    Photographs smuggled out of Syria earlier this year and released by an international team of lawyers purported to illustrate the systematic and widespread torture used by the Syrian regime...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Carving Palestinian land

    Yesterday, seven men from the village of Anata in the West Bank stood in court. While the specific charges against them were unknown, the crime that has put them...

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  • March 29, 2014

    What next after the domination of religious extremists in the Israeli army?

    Over the past three decades, the Israeli army has undergone a restructuring of its elite as a result of economic, social, demographic and political shifts. This has influenced the...

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