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January 30, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley Due to the large number of complaints we've received which deemed this article to be offensive to the sacrifices of the Syrian people in their struggle for justice, it...
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January 30, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley Palestinians have long suspected their leader Yasser Arafat was assassinated by Israel. Thanks to Clayton Swisher and his team at the Al Jazeera Investigations Unit, we have new evidence...
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January 30, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley The alliance between the apartheid state of Israel and the absolutist monarchy of the Saudi royal dictatorship is no longer merely tacit. After recent diplomatic moves to cool tensions...
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January 30, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley The death of South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela last night has brought in floods of well-deserved tributes. But the hypocrisy of many of these, often from the very...
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January 30, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley The new Spinwatch report into BICOM, a leading force in Britain's Israel lobby, makes for essential reading. MEMO is to be commended for funding its publication. The Britain Israel...
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January 30, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley The slow disintegration of living conditions in the West Bank continues apace. But this is no natural disaster or complicated economic malaise. This is a very deliberately created policy,...
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January 30, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley Two indirectly-related stories from the US this week struck me in a particular way. Firstly, it was a big week for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign. The...
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January 30, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley Last month during a debate in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, there was a disturbing comment made by one of the right-wing politicians. It was racist remark that revealed much...
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January 30, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley The farce continues. Since the July coup that overthrew elected President Mohammed Morsi last year, Egypt has gone from disaster to disaster. As flawed and problematic as his administration...
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January 29, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley In Palestine solidarity circles the debate around the pro-Israel lobby often focuses on the chicken-or-the-egg problem: are Western governments supportive of Israel because the lobby is so influential, or...
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January 25, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley Renowned Palestinian activist and religious leader Sheikh Raed Salah was at the UK's Sheldon immigration court in Birmingham this week. His appeal against the government's decision in June to...
Due to the large number of complaints we've received which deemed this article to be offensive to the sacrifices of the Syrian people in their struggle for justice, it...![PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (L) welcomes South African President Nelson Mandela, on June 13, 1994, at the Organization of African Unity summit (OAU), in Tunis. [FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-157518995.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The death of South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela last night has brought in floods of well-deserved tributes. But the hypocrisy of many of these, often from the very...
