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What happens when a Gazan wants to marry a West Bank woman?

by Amira Hass December 19, 2011

Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed themselves? You don’t believe it?

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Israel decries Arab democracy

by Khalid Amayreh December 18, 2011

Israel’s worst fears regarding its relationship with the Arab world — and with Egypt in particular — are coming true before our eyes. The rise of the Islamists in Egypt means the end of the peace treaty with Egypt and the rise of a government committed to the ideological Islamist goal of the destruction of Israel.

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Israel’s Operation Summer Seeds

by Stephen Lendman September 1, 2011

Ahead of the General Assembly’s likely granting Palestine statehood recognition and full de jure UN membership in September or early October, Israel is preparing its army and arming settlers for disruptive protests.

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Murky Anti-Semitism (Zionist Style)

by Lawrence Davidson August 29, 2011

Lawrence Davidson analyses the culture behind efforts by Zionist lobbyists in the United States to censor free debate of Zionism and Israel’s policies through pressure, blackmail and smearing the advocates of free speech as “anti-Semites” or “self-hating Jews”.

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Will ‘Nipper’ Cameron obey Tel Aviv’s trumpet or vote for Palestinian freedom?

by Stuart Littlewood August 29, 2011

Stuart Littlewood wonders whether British Prime Minister David Cameron will have the courage and integrity to apply to Palestine the principles which he claims to embrace in respect of Libya – supporting freedom and democracy – by backing the Palestinians’ bid for UN recognition of their statehood.

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Netanyahu and the Border Incident: The Return of the Generals

by Uri Avnery August 21, 2011

With a sigh of relief, Netanyahu returned to his usual stance. Here he was, surrounded by generals, the he-man, the resolute fighter, the Defender of Israel.

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Palestine’s “last village” faces the bulldozers

by Jonathan Cook July 7, 2011

Jonathan Cook reports on plans by Israel to demolish the Palestinian village of Lifta, near Jerusalem, in order to build holiday homes for wealthy foreign Jews and to erase for Israelis “all troubling reminders of an earlier Palestinian presence”.

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Palestinian people power – could it be a game-changer?

by Alan Hart July 6, 2011

Just imagine it… Several hundred thousand or better still one or two million Palestinians or more marching peacefully to the 1967 borders.

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The truth behind another Israeli expulsion trick

by Amira Hass June 28, 2011

The artificial division between Areas A, B and C was supposed to be erased from the map, and dropped from the discourse, in 1999. Instead, Israel has sanctified and perpetuated it.

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The forthcoming Gaza flotilla: heroism vs violent intransigence?

by Richard Lightbown June 19, 2011

Richard Lightbown summarizes the situation ahead of the forthcoming Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human in plain language bereft of the doublespeak that the Israeli government would like us to hear.
No Nobel Peace Laureate will be able to disguise the guilt if more Israeli hoods batter more human rights workers. No selectively edited whitewash report, with of without endorsement from professors of international law, will be able to conceal the truth this time from the people of the world.

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Return to Palestine

by Haitham Sabbah May 6, 2011

On the 15th of May of every year, Palestinians and the whole world remember how it all started. How the Israelis’ ethnic cleansing of a people and the destruction of a society – the Nakba – was met with global indifference.

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Manufacturing the Muslim Menace [Satire]

by Mantiq al-Tayr March 20, 2011

Anti-Muslim Bigotry – in the United States is getting out of hand. Our country is sick and we need to understand the source of this sickness and do something about it. Islamphobia is being actively supported by local, state and federal governments and law enforcement. Anti-Muslim hatemongers routinely train local, state and federal officials to hate Islam and Muslims and it looks like they get good money for it. I tell you, I am in the wrong business, but I digress.

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Tawtin or Return: Divergent views from Lebanon, but one common goal

by Franklin Lamb February 19, 2011

Lebanese opponents of civil rights for Palestinian refugees often use less objective and more crude wording to define “tawtin” (“settlement”) than is normally employed in civil society discussions.

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US Ambassador’s bid to get Falk sacked from UN opens a can of worms

by Stuart Littlewood January 30, 2011

Falk’s crime was saying that the US administration’s reluctance to address the awkward gaps and contradictions identified by several scholars in the official explanations of 9/11, only fuels suspicions of a conspiracy. And he suggested that “what may be more distressing than the apparent cover up is the eerie silence of the mainstream media, unwilling to acknowledge the well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events: an al Qaeda operation with no foreknowledge by government officials”.

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No such thing as justice in the Holy Land, Palestinian Church leaders tell the Irish

by Stuart Littlewood December 16, 2010

Archbishop Theodosius Hanna (Greek Orthodox Church), Monsignor Manuel Musallam (Latin Catholic) and Mr Constantine Dabbagh (Executive Director of the Middle East Council of Churches) are courageous human rights defenders and spiritual leaders from Palestine. They have just completed a tour of Ireland to raise awareness of the situation in their homeland under Israeli military occupation and the plight of the dwindling Christian community there.

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