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  • Author: Aijaz Zaka Syed
    Father of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh holds a photograph of his son. (EPA) Check this out. Here's a story of two countries from the Middle East. One is an ancient civilization with a rich history that goes back five thousand years. It’s a functioning democracy
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  • Author: Henry Norr
      With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spiri
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  • Author: Jeremy Salt
     Early in the 20th century the Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky wrote of the 'iron wall' that would have to be built between the settlers and the indigenous people of Palestine, whom he knew would resist the attempt to take their land to the end. What
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  • Author: Patrick Haenni and Sami Amghar
     A question worries Europe: is Islam inherently expansionist and out to conquer the world? Yes, say those Swiss who voted against the construction of minarets. They see this expansionism underpinned by a desire for political control, sometimes imputed to
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  • Author: Petra Bartosiewicz
     When I first read the U.S. government’s complaint against Aafia Siddiqui, who is awaiting trial in a Brooklyn detention center on charges of attempting to murder a group of U.S. Army officers and FBI agents in Afghanistan, the case it described was so
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  • Author: Administrator
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  • Author: Stephen Lendman
     The Palestine Viva Aid Convoy Entering Gaza Since Israel isolated Gaza under siege in mid-2007, it's blocked essential humanitarian aid from entering, including:-- on December 1, 2008, when its warships stopped a Libyan cargo vessel several kilometers f
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  • Author: Franklin Lamb
     However President Obama is judged on various subjects for his first year in office, he has already made history in the way that neither his predecessor nor any other leader has ever managed. On January 3, 2010, the Transportation Security Administrat
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  • Author: Emily Ratner
     A great many heroes have emerged from the Gaza Freedom March's efforts in Cairo, where more than 1,400 internationals from 43 countries have come to demand an end to the Israeli siege on Gaza. The South African delegation have inspired us all by facilit
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  • Author: Jeremy R. Hammond
     Simply stated, without U.S. support, none of this could go on. (Google) One year ago today, Israel launched 'Operation Cast Lead', a murderous full-scale military assault on the small, densely populated, and defenseless Gaza Strip. The operation result
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  • Author: Sam Husseini
     Just after midnight I couldn't sleep. Went out to get a bite to eat or maybe a glass of wine to help me sleep. See several CodePink people and others with the Gaza Freedom March, say they are going to the French embassy -- they had put out an alert:
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  • Author: Edward C. Corrigan
     All across Canada and in the United States, there is an organized campaign to suppress criticism of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians. The campaign is especially strong on university campuses where many voices have been raised in support of h
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  • Author: Uri Avnery
     A short historical quiz: Which state:1. Arose after a holocaust in which a third of its people were destroyed?2. Drew from that holocaust the conclusion that only superior military forces could ensure its survival?3. Accorded the army a central role in
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  • Author: Hasan Abu Nimah
     Photo documentation of a new wall being built on the Gaza-Egypt border. (Al-Masry Al-Youm English)  As if the siege of Gaza were not already bad enough, Israel and Egypt are working even harder to tighten the prison which holds Gaza's 1.5 million peopl
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  • Author: Ramzy Baroud
     A just and peaceful solution to the protracted Palestinian-Israeli conflict is only possible when the US ceases to block every attempt made towards it.This assertion might raise many questions, for example, just how is one to define a just and peaceful
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  • Author: Brian Cloughley
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  • Author: William Blum
    The Peace Candidate Myth All the crying from the left about how Obama "the peace candidate" has now become "a war president" ... Whatever are they talking about? Here's what I wrote in this report in August 2008, during the election campaign:
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  • Author: Stuart Littlewood
     The great Viva Palestina convoy is on its way. It left London on Sunday, with the media doing their best not to notice despite photo opportunities and a press event laid on in front of the Houses of Parliament. The hundred or so vehicles, carrying human
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  • Author: Stephen Lendman
     They're numerous, outspoken, and range from secular to orthodox to one group calling itself "True Torah Jews Against Zionism."They believe that "traditional" Jews don't support Zionism, an ideology they call "contrary to Jewish law and beliefs and the t
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  • Author: Rannie Amiri
     King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia “We are upset and saddened by the recent bombings by the Saudi army to harm the much loved Yemeni people. Saudi Arabia's intervention does nothing but feed the useless bloodshed on its border with Yemen.”
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