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  • November 29, 2015

    Israel defies international law by holding bodies of slain Palestinians

    As part of its collective punishment policy against the Palestinian people, Israel has refused to deliver the bodies of 38 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East...

    News

  • November 28, 2015

    Fanon in Palestine part 3: The institutions of capitulation

    In part two, the historical development of the Palestinian National Movement (PNM) was traced, from its break with the paternalist hold of the Arab world, through the years of...

    Article

  • November 28, 2015

    Syriza's U-turn on Israel is now complete

    Syriza was a popular leftist political party which was swept to power in Greek elections on its promise to end years of IMF-and EU-imposed austerity. By now, though, the...

    Article

  • November 28, 2015

    Putin's threat to Saudi Arabia

    We ought to take seriously the implicit Russian threats in an article in Pravda newspaper calling for Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to be punished before they cause a...

    Article

  • November 28, 2015

    France denies Turkey criticism claim at NATO meeting

    France’s Permanent Representative to NATO, Jean-Baptiste Mattei, has refuted reports that he had suggested that Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian Su-24 jet undermined “Operation ISIS”, Anadolu reported on...

    News

  • November 28, 2015

    Israel’s army is no longer a deterrent, even to Palestinian children

    Following the three Israeli wars waged on the people of Gaza between 2008 and 2014, dozens of political, strategic and military analysts acknowledged what is a bitter pill for...

    Blog

  • November 28, 2015

    Israel considers expelling families of Palestinian fighters to Gaza

    Israeli TV Channel 10 reported on Friday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports a proposal to expel families of Palestinian fighters in West Bank to the Gaza Strip. According...

    News

  • November 28, 2015

    Turkey advises its citizens to delay trips to Russia

    Turkey’s foreign ministry has asked its citizens to delay trips to Russia amid strained relations between the two countries. “Within the framework of the recent developments in Turkey-Russia relations,...

    News

  • November 28, 2015

    Kerry’s obsolete rhetoric

    Every time US Secretary of State John Kerry visits Jerusalem and Ramallah, initial encouraging signs rapidly dissolve into a perpetual descent towards “a pivotal point”. Besides the constant alienation...

    Blog

  • November 28, 2015

    The week in pictures

    Change your lens, change your story....

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