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We will probably never really know if, as Israel's Prime Minister claimed, Iran and Syria orchestrated the Nakba demonstrations which led to the deaths of at least 12 Palestinians...
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The sun is shining, the beach is filling up and the squeal of car tyres and screech of car horns is pervasive. I could be in Beirut or any...
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Thousands of words have been written about the scandalous arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah by the British government in what is being seen as an attempt to silence him...
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The ongoing Israeli siege of Gaza has prompted much media focus on the flotilla and "flytilla" attempts to break the blockade over the past week or so. The Israelis...
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The Jewish Chronicle's Martin Bright has revealed details of "a secret meeting between Israeli President Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority" alleged to have...
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Yet more tragic loss of life, this time in Eilat and Gaza, and yet again Israel "responds" with "full force"; the bombs dropped on overcrowded Gaza City, and the...
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President Barack Obama has done us all a favour with his speech to the United Nations; rarely, if ever, has a US president made it so obvious what many...
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Article 1, paragraph 1 of the Charter of the United Nations says that the purpose of the organisation is "to maintain international peace and security". On that level, the...
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Since the very beginning of the Arab uprisings earlier this year, the leaders of dictatorial governments at the centre of the storms across the region have raised the spectre...
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As Republicans seeking the party's nomination for the next US presidential election fall over themselves to prove how Israel-friendly they are to "Republican Jewish leaders", the country closest to...
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They can take away our land; they can take away our rights; they can even take away our right to live; but we are Palestinians, and with God's help,...
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We are living in momentous times, with political changes sweeping across the Middle East and Western countries pushing democratic values as the panacea for all human ills. This is...
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It is interesting to note that a recent robust defence of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's planned "Museum of Tolerance" in Jerusalem uses an attack on the credibility of Sheikh...
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Democracy, to paraphrase writer and comedian Alexei Sayle, allows you to march up and down the street and elect new dictators every few years. Here in the West, we...
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Another week and another group of innocent people are killed in a terrorist attack. Five Israeli tourists are killed by a suicide bomber in a Bulgarian holiday resort; Israel...
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It should come as no surprise that King Abdullah of Jordan has cancelled a proposed visit to Britain during which he was to attend the annual fundraising dinner of...
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All of the major pro-Israel Lobbyists, including Barack Obama just a few days ago, have used the word "delegitimisation" to condemn critics of the State of Israel and its...
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In the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, the Israelis have the most compliant of "partners for peace" ready and willing to make huge concessions and yet illegal settlements continue to...
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The spectacle of a senior American diplomat emphasising how much she is going to work for Israel was surprising only in its openness. When Samantha Power told a Senate...
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The world has been transfixed by events in Egypt and Syria, with the West's moral conscience missing over the former but resurfacing on the latter thanks to the use...
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Negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians are, we are told, getting nowhere. It's taken some people 20+ years to understand that simple fact, but there you go. Ever since...
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Once again we hear that Israel has bombed the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip "in retaliation" for something that they've done against Israelis. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that...