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  • January 25, 2014

    Livni is being used to polish Netanyahu's image

    Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was keen to draw attention to his success in incorporating the Movement Party, led by former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, in his latest coalition...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Does reconciliation really need "temporary borders" which will threaten the Palestinian cause?

    Benjamin Netanyahu’s election coalition partner has said that it is “impossible” to solve the conflict with the Palestinians. “It is possible to manage it – and it is important...

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  • January 25, 2014

    No unity without real partnership

    The internal split within Palestinian ranks has damaged the national cause and has been foremost in its negative impact on the resistance in occupied Palestine post-first and second intifadas....

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel's segregated bus lines have touched a nerve

    One of the most iconic moments in the American civil rights movement took place in Alabama in 1955, when Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her...

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  • January 25, 2014

    EU-funded Israeli theft

    A leaked report commissioned by the European Union (EU) has concluded that Israeli settlement construction “remains the single biggest threat” to peace in the Middle East. The confidential, 15-page report...

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  • January 25, 2014

    UNICEF report reveals Israel's "institutionalised" ill-treatment of Palestinian children

    Israel imposes two parallel legal systems across the occupied West Bank. Illegal Jewish settlers who commit a crime face the mainstream Israeli courts, with in-built legal rights and safeguards....

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  • January 25, 2014

    Erdoğan and Zionism

    The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, knows very well that when he described Zionism before the UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum held in Vienna late last February as...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Henry Jackson Society and scaremongering with AIPAC

    The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is North America’s most vociferous pro-Israel lobby group. This week Alan Mendoza of Britain’s Henry Jackson Society offered an interesting glimpse into...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Tunisia is still at the forefront

    The French Minister of Interior, Manuel Valls, faced sharp and well-deserved criticism following statements he made in the wake of the assassination of opposition politician, Chokri Belaid, last month....

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israeli doctors accused of collusion in torture

    Questions are being raised about the involvement of Israeli doctors in the suspected torture of a young Palestinian detainee who died in custody last month. Sharmila Devi reports. The...

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