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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel: the dead parrot of the Middle East!

    By Yvonne Ridley How many of you remember Monty Python’s dead parrot sketch? It was a wonderful comedic routine that transcended nationality and culture. Timeless in its appeal, it...

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  • January 25, 2014

    What Does a "One State Solution" Really Mean?

    Beyond the Failed “Peace Process” By Alain Gresh Renewed Arab/Israeli negotiations, opened under the auspices of President Barack Obama in September, are undermined not just by settlement building but...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Exclusive eye-witness account: Universal Jurisdiction on trial

    When I was being held in Israel in 2007 and undergoing a 12-hour interrogation session I remember my interrogator saying to me as he shrugged his shoulders ‘International Law?...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The art of black propaganda

    Reports that the headquarters of the Palestinian Journalists Union in Gaza have been shut down by Hamas security forces should concern everyone with an interest in hearing the truth...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Legislating Fascism

    By Khalid Amayreh The Right-wing Israeli government on Sunday, 10 October,  approved a proposal that  would force non-Jewish citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a Jewish state. The  proposal...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Tantrums and sheeshas, but who will care when Israel self-destructs?

    By Yvonne Ridley in Syria After the collapse of the faux Middle East peace talks Israel’s growing isolation in the world is not entirely unexpected. A side-effect is that...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Are we equipping the Palestinians to tolerate the intolerable?

    A conference in Beirut last week focussed on the shift of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from “Relief and Works...

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  • January 25, 2014

    When will this conspiracy of silence end?

    By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban The recent and latest – but probably not the last – images of prisoners being abused by Israeli soldiers showed a blindfolded Palestinian woman trying...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Were "the chosen people" picked for their virtues or vices?

    By Khalid AmayrehThe recent Vatican synod on the deteriorating situation in Palestine-Israel did the right thing by pointing out that Israel ought to discontinue the use of the controversial...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Hate-filled Israeli rabbis incite violence against non-Jews

    By Omar Radwan Vitriolic racism and hatred has become the Israeli normIsrael appears to be awash with Jewish hate preachers. In the past, rabbis who issued racist edicts or...

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