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Netanyahu Rejects Peace After Hamas and Fatah Reconciliation

by Stephen Lendman December 28, 2011

Netanyahu: If Hamas joins the Palestinian government, we will not hold negotiations with the Palestinian Authority….The peace process can only advance while maintaining security arrangements, which is becoming more difficult in light of the current situation in the region.

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Egypt’s Focus Largely Ignores Palestine

by Stephen Lendman February 10, 2011

Washington and Israel especially remain deeply hostile to Arab nationalism and attempts to unify Arabs politically. Their goal, in fact, is divide, conquer and control, redrawing the Middle East to suit imperial, not Arab interests. They thrive on Arab fragmentation, collective inaction, and military and economic weakness.

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Interview with Mustafa Barghouti

by SR Editor February 3, 2011

In this interview Dr. Barghouti addresses the current economic situation in the West Bank, the failed peace process, the Palestine Papers and the responsibility of the international community for the continued occupation and situation of the Palestinians.

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New History or a New Mirage

by Antoine Raffoul November 13, 2010

Finally, it is also clear that the Zionist leaders occupying the Israeli Knesset have now become aware that their colonial juggernaut is running out of fuel. So, in order to pump more colonial life into it, they have come up with the racist “Oath to the Jewish Nation”. Its twin tank has been filled with the illegal call to punish all those who commemorate the 1948 Nakba.

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Palestinian Authority Traitors Serving Israel

by Stephen Lendman October 20, 2010

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ duplicitous treachery exposes him as an enemy, not ally, of his people. An earlier article on him quoted Jeffrey Blankfort calling him a “double agent (serving) his Israeli and US masters in plain sight.” In June 2003, Edward Said called him “Israel’s sheriff,” saying he’s “colorless, moderately corrupt, and without any clear ideas of his own, except that he wants to please the white man,” his Washington and bosses.

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An Open Letter to Margaret Atwood from Gaza: Don’t Stand on the Wrong Side of History

by Haitham Sabbah April 6, 2010

Besieged Gaza, Palestine April.4.2010 Dear Ms. Atwood, We are students from Gaza representing more than 10 academic institutions therein. Our grandparents are refugees who were expelled from their homes in the 1948 Nakba. They still have their keys locked up in their closets and will pass them on to their children, our parents. Many of [...]

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Najla Said reads of her teenage visit to Gaza [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah March 9, 2010

Najla Said, playwrite, reads from her play, of her life changing visit to Gaza as a teenager, with her Palestinian activist writer father, the late Edward Said, after he learned he had leukemia. (New York City Ethical Culture Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEMrmRCbvA0 Hat tip: Ram

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Tragedy in the Holy Land

by Haitham Sabbah September 20, 2006

To elaborate on ‘one palestine’s’ comment, here is a documentary (Hat tip: Robin) that views history through the lens of the Palestinians, even though they are the people whose history and daily reality lie at the heart of events in the region. TRAGEDY IN THE HOLY LAND is an old documentary, but still valid today [...]

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