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  • January 30, 2014

    Nelson Mandela's long history of support for Palestine

    The death of South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela last night has brought in floods of well-deserved tributes. But the hypocrisy of many of these, often from the very...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Time to shed more light on the Israel lobby

    The new Spinwatch report into BICOM, a leading force in Britain’s Israel lobby, makes for essential reading. MEMO is to be commended for funding its publication. The Britain Israel...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Israel's West Bank torture regime

    The slow disintegration of living conditions in the West Bank continues apace. But this is no natural disaster or complicated economic malaise. This is a very deliberately created policy,...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Boycott Israel campaign succeeding despite minimal resources

    Two indirectly-related stories from the US this week struck me in a particular way. Firstly, it was a big week for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign. The...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Shared ideology helps explain US support for Israel

    Last month during a debate in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, there was a disturbing comment made by one of the right-wing politicians. It was racist remark that revealed much...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Egypt's farcical election

    The farce continues. Since the July coup that overthrew elected President Mohammed Morsi last year, Egypt has gone from disaster to disaster. As flawed and problematic as his administration...

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  • January 30, 2014

    The molotov resistance

    What occurred in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Al-Muqatam undoubtedly saddens the heart and troubles the national conscience; something absent from the hearts of those claiming to...

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  • January 30, 2014

    They slandered Hamas

    There is no way that an honest resistance committed to protecting its country and people, or a pure resistance that has given thousands of its youth in their prime...

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  • January 30, 2014

    The river of law pours into the sea of politics

    We all know the famous saying about Churchill when he was told the war had damaged and destroyed everything in the country. He asked about the judiciary, and when...

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  • January 30, 2014

    The Muslim Brotherhood cannot be eliminated by media

    Television channels are full of vicious attacks on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in an organised and systematic campaign intended to eliminate the movement. It has been said that their opponents...

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