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January 23, 2014

An exhibition of historical oppression

British approval for Israel to temporarily display the Balfour Declaration during the inauguration of a museum in 2015 has met with verbal condemnations from the Arab League and leading...

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January 23, 2014

Sectarian violence continues to divide Iraq

Throughout his reign in Iraq, Saddam Hussein played up ethnic and sectarian tensions at every opportunity. He spearheaded a long campaign of violent oppression against Shi’ites (who make up...

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January 23, 2014

What's behind the proposed visit of Qatari royal to Israel?

Qatar’s foreign policy is nothing if not enigmatic. Since the Arab Spring, the small Gulf state has drastically upped its diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, the culmination of...

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January 23, 2014

Palestine's search page on Google 'harms peace'

Israel’s furore at Google’s decision to replace Palestinian Territories with Palestine in its localised search pages led foreign minister Ze’ev Elkin to issue a statement addressed to Google’s CEO,...

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January 23, 2014

Stephen Hawking's boycott decision elicits Zionist hatred

Academic boycotts seem to resonate deeply within Israel, veering towards the dynamics of vengeance. Cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott the Israeli Presidential Conference sparked a furore on social...

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January 23, 2014

The ICC on trial

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that it will launch a preliminary inquiry into Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, which resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish...

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January 23, 2014

Israeli law seeks to protect IDF from 'defamation'

The Israeli Ministerial Law Committee has approved a law developed by Yoni Chetboun of Jewish Home party, which would enable the IDF to press charges against individuals or entities...

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January 23, 2014

Impunity, denial and requests for independent investigations in al Durrah's killing

Rewriting history in the Israeli narrative is as simple as refusing calls for independent inquiries into the countless crimes of the occupation. Years after Muhammad al-Durrah’s death in 2000,...

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January 23, 2014

B'Tselem report raises fundamental question about criminal accountability

Despite Israeli rhetoric about precision strikes and avoidance of civilian casualties during Operation Pillar of Defence, B’Tselem’s report portrays a grim reality. According to the report, the Israeli military...

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January 23, 2014

Offering practical solutions to the bloody conflict in Syria

What can be done for a country whose death toll is close to 94,000; where 1.5 million refugees have fled the violence, executions are widespread, crimes are committed by...

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