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  • January 25, 2014

    Sarkozy and "Holy Shalit"

    It was a humanitarian gesture of some signficance for French President Nicolas Sarkozy to send a letter to Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who is being held captive in Gaza,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Why the Palestinians should never recognize Israel as a Jewish state

    One of the obsessive demands Israel keeps invoking these days is that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state as a precondition for a possible peace settlement...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel's fifth columnists silence Sheikh Raed Salah

    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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  • January 25, 2014

    Breaking the siege of Gaza the approved way

    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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  • January 25, 2014

    Did you ever talk to Sheikh Raed Salah? Did you ever really listen to him?*

    Sheikh Raed Salah, one of the most prominent campaigners for Palestinian rights, traveled to the United Kingdom to participate in a speaking tour, including at the launch of the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Greece ignores racism to pursue alliance with Israel

    On the eve of his visit to Israel, Greek President Karolos Papoulias spoke of the “strong relationship in all aspects” between his country and the Zionist state. The fact...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Tolerance and human dignity - Israeli style

    After over half a decade of opposition, wrangling and controversy, the so-called ‘Museum of Tolerance’, sponsored by the US based Simon Wiesenthal Centre (SWC), last week received final authorisation...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The biological legacy of warfare

    Medical personnel in a majority of countries which have been attacked by armies using modern and chemical munitions, such as white phosphorus shells, have reported increases in the number...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The killings continue and so too the uprising

    Let’s presume that some of the Arab satellite TV stations exaggerated and inflated the number of martyrs who fell from the bullets of the Syrian security forces in Hama,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Dahlan and Abbas on the path of self-destruction

    Last week, on the orders of President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian security forces raided the home of their former leader, Mohammed Dahlan.  They said that they seized a large cache...

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