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  • January 28, 2014

    Washington's Hamas myopia

    By Oliver McTernan In June 2009, Barack Obama declared to the Arab world from the podium at Cairo University that the US would be even-handed in its efforts to...

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  • January 28, 2014

    The Merchants of Fear: Israel Profits from Homeland Insecurity

    By Maidhc Ó Cathail In the wake of the weird Christmas Day “underwear bomber” incident on Northwest Flight 253, former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, as if on cue,...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Storing American weapons in Israel

    By Ibrahim al-AbsiIn vain, it seems, we hope that one day the United States will adopt, just once, a fair position on Arab national issues, especially the Palestinians’, whose...

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  • January 28, 2014

    The Petraeus briefing: Biden's embarrassment is not the whole story

    Saturday, March 13, 2010 Posted By Mark Perry On Jan. 16, two days after a killer earthquake hit Haiti, a team of senior military officers from the U.S. Central...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: divesting is the right thing to do

    Sent from Emily Schaeffer, human right lawyer in Israel/Palestine, who asked Archbishop Tutu to write the letter. It was with great joy that I learned of your recent 16-4...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Is the US ready and able to impose a solution on Israel-Palestine?

    By Omar RadwanLast Saturday, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority called on the United States to impose unilaterally a solution on the Israel-Palestine conflict. US President Barack Obama...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Is There Hope for a Two-State Solution?

    Perhaps it is more appropriate to begin with the question of whether a two-state settlement has ever been possible and/or viable at anytime at all since 1948. This essay...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Apartheid Roads

    US Financing Israeli-Only Roads in the West Bank By Jonathan Cook The construction of sections of a controversial segregated road network in the West Bank planned by Israel for...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Banning Chomsky is not the answer

    By Omar Radwan On Sunday, Israel stopped Professor Noam Chomsky, the prominent American dissident academic, from entering the West Bank to give a lecture on American foreign policy at...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Hamas leader says American envoys making contact, but not openly

    By David Hearst The United States is sending a succession of envoys to engage with Hamas but lacks the bravery to talk to the Islamist movement openly, its leader,...

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