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On 4 March, the newly formed Israeli Blue and White party's leaders, Gabi Ashkenazi, Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz and Moshe Ya'alon, declared that Israel will not pull out from...
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Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi once said, "Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend." I don't know if this applies to the current...
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This week, the Palestinians won a moral victory. The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) released a report that sheds light on the killing of peaceful Palestinian demonstrators in the...
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The Israeli General Election in April will be interesting, not only because there is a good chance that the world will see the political end of Benjamin Netanyahu and...
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Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs has released a report called Terrorists in Suits: The Ties Between NGOs promoting BDS and Terrorist Organisations. The report has a sense of melodrama,...
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Prologue For decades, Israeli leaders and media have insisted that Palestinians left their homes in the Nakba of 1948, leaving everything behind to become refugees of their own free...
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General Benjamin (Benny) Gantz, the 20th Chief of General Staff of the Israeli army, was charged in March 2010 with illegally expanding his house onto public property. Upon his...
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What was Sondos thinking as she huddled with her three children in their tent and set it on fire? Did the tears of her children not move her? Didn't...
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Two days ago, I attended to a seminar on the legal background and implications of the dissolution of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) by President Mahmoud Abbas. Two of...
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On 22 December Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), dissolved the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). He did so despite the fact that the law does not...
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On 16 December 2018, an Israeli court in the occupied city of Jerusalem sentenced Suzan Abu Ghannaam – the mother of 20-year-old Palestinian martyr Muhammad Abu Ghannaam – to...
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About a month ago my wife asked me, "Have you seen that two-story house they demolished in the West Bank. Such a pity, it was such a beautiful house,...
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The Trump administration has made Mahmoud Abbas do what no other ally has done before – renounce America's role and turn his back. Mahmoud Abbas declared that the Americans...
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What does it take to make someone wield a screwdriver and attack a fully armed, well-trained, well-protected soldier, knowing that if he got injured no ambulance would take him...
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Is Israel a nuclear power? In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli former nuclear technician, revealed to the British media details of Israel's nuclear power programme and was eventually jailed...
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The result of the latest round of fighting in the besieged Gaza Strip, when the Israeli army tried to carry out a covert military operation even while the Egyptians...
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One of the anomalies of political Zionism is that, while it was founded as a response to murderous pogroms against European and Russian Jews as a means to rescue...
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Until Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ultra-religious, right-wing party came into power, we Palestinians used to have a lot of difficulties convincing the rest of the world...
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Recently, in another shocking incident, Israel's Culture Minister Miri Regev was outraged by a Palestinian children's novel written by Walid Dagga, a Palestinian prisoner who spent more than thirty...
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If US President Donald Trump can be visualised as King Cyrus, then Benjamin Netanyahu is the prophet out to save the modern Israelites in a hostile environment. His message...
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Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks at the 2018 conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), are key to an understanding of how Israel is run. The Israeli leader is...
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There are many in the Arab world who fell about laughing when the US ambassador to the UN started to lecture them about how rich Arab countries did not...
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The visit of Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan to Saudi Arabia last week raised many questions related to his country's foreign policy and the changes that could be...
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A few years after Arafat assumed the leadership of the Palestinian national movement he tried to tempt the West to offer him something in return for what he called...
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"The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the...
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The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, is on a four-day visit to Israel, the first such trip by any Filipino leader. Even though he declared during the 2016...
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Few people in the Arab World and Palestine had heard of Darin Al-Tatur before last Tuesday. This Palestinian poet has rarely caught the attention of critics, or literary magazines,...
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Does one crime justify another? Israeli officials seem to think so. Whenever they are criticised for committing crimes against humanity by wiping Palestinian neighbourhoods off the map; bombing hospitals,...
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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the expulsion of the Palestinians from their homeland — the Nakba — by the Zionist Movement, which established the state of Israel...
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Two incidents represent turning points in Malaysian support for Palestine: the Mavi Marmara "Freedom Flotilla" incident, and the visit of Prime Minister Najib Razak to the Gaza Strip. The...
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Suspense created by the uncovering of hidden secrets attracts people, especially when it comes to established facts. Hence, Mehdi Hasan is keen on showing his audience the hidden side...