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Items by Eric Goldstein
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Israel just eased restrictions on US citizens, the EU should demand no less for Europeans
On 27 September, the US government granted Israel entry into its visa-waiver program, allowing Israeli citizens visa-free entry to America. To obtain this long-sought political prize, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in July eased its discrimination against US nationals who are of Palestinian or, more generally, Arab...
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Israel settlers rampage in Palestinian-Americans’ West Bank hometown
When Kayed Abu Awwad sold his home in Oak Lawn, Illinois, in June, he never imagined that he and his family would be homeless a few weeks later. Like many American-born Palestinians, Abu Awwad, a 38-year-old truck driver, planned to move his family to “our homeland” for two or three...
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Tunisia: Subjugating the courts is key to Saeid’s power grab
It’s been a year since President Kais Saied of Tunisia fired 57 judges and prosecutors, accusing them of financial and “moral” corruption and obstructing investigations. That day, Saied issued a decree-law empowering the president to fire judges, virtually eliminating any pretense of the separation of powers. These were among the...