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  • January 27, 2014

    Middle East Deadlock: a consequence of U.S bias and Israeli intransigence

    By Zulaikha Abdullah This week marks twenty one years since the November 18, 1988 declaration of a Palestinian state. To coincide with commemorations of this event, and amid increasing...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Jerusalem & Babylon / The story that got away

    By Anshel Pfeffer  I met this week a senior IDF general who had been intimately involved with the planning and execution of last year’s Operation Cast Lead. I asked...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Misconceptions about Palestinian refugee camps in Syria

    What do you think of when you hear the words, “Palestinian refugee camp”? Miles of open land covered in tents housing entire families crammed together, perhaps? Poverty stricken people...

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  • January 27, 2014

    The source of neo-anti-Semitism? Look no further than Israel's abuse of international law

    By Khaled Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem 18 December, 2009 Political Zionism arose out of the murderous pogroms against Jews in Eastern Europe and Russia in the 19th century. Such...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Palestine’s “forgotten people”

    By Ibrahim Hewitt When concern about the after-effects of Israel’s aggression against the civilian population in Gaza was still high, Time magazine described Palestinian refugees in Lebanon as “A...

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  • January 27, 2014

    The times they are a-changin’

    By Ibrahim Hewitt In his classic 1963 song The times they are a-changin’, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan wrote, “For the loser now will be later to win, for the...

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  • January 27, 2014

    The “Arab Reality” Crisis

    By Dr. Abdul Wahhab Al-Effendi22/12/2009 The steel wall that Egypt intends to build on its borders with besieged Gaza illustrates the double bind that resulted from the Camp David...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Christmas en-route to Gaza

    Today was Christmas and a rather surreal one at that. Instead of tucking into the usual Turkey with stuffing and all of the trimmings, Viva Palestina convoy members tucked...

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  • January 27, 2014

    How the Turkish and Arabic press covered VIVA Palestina

    In a world where, we are told, the West has a free press and everyone else prints government-controlled propaganda, it is interesting to examine how the media has covered...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Sixty-two years, and counting

    By Ibrahim Hewitt This week saw the first anniversary of the Israeli assault on Gaza, but only one anniversary really matters in 2010: it is now almost 62 years...

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