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January 25, 2014

While the world looks away, the occupation of Palestine goes on

For anyone relying on the mainstream media for information about the rest of the world, the knowledge they receive builds up into a flavour-of-the-month approach to history. Correspondents flock...

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January 25, 2014

Preliminary Historical Observations on the Arab Revolutions of 2011

Towards the end of his long, eventful life, in 1402, the renowned Arab historian Ibn Khaldun was in Damascus. He left us a description of Taymur’s siege of the...

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January 25, 2014

The Enduring Palestine Land Day

For nearly three decades the Palestinian people had been brutalised and belittled. Then on 30 March 1976 they took a collective stand. They were not the nomadic nuisance denounced...

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January 25, 2014

Goldstone's scandalous vindication of Israel

Israeli leaders are lauding a Washington Post op-ed by former South African Judge Richard Goldstone in which he sought to ameliorate the severity of war crimes and crimes against...

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January 25, 2014

Goldstone has cracked under Zionist pressure, but UN Report still stands

The UN’s Goldstone Report into Israel’s war against the people of Gaza has, since its publication in September 2009, been attacked and disputed by leading Zionist and pro-Israel campaigners...

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January 25, 2014

Defending the indefensible

Following Richard Goldstone’s rather odd op-ed piece in the Washington Post, there is now a frantic campaign to overturn the UN’s “Goldstone Report” into Israel’s 2008/9 war against the...

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January 25, 2014

John Dugard: The General Assembly will refer the Goldstone report to the Security Council, despite Goldstone's op-ed

The controversy surrounding Richard Goldstone’s op-ed in the Washington Post last week sees no signs of abating. One of the latest legal figures to weigh into the debate...

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January 25, 2014

Palestinian reconciliation: is there light at the end of the tunnel?

In a speech to the Jewish National Fund convention in Jerusalem late last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a startling ultimatum to the Palestinian Authority: “Choose between...

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January 25, 2014

Spotlight on Parliament: 8th April 2011

Concerns over arms sales to Israel This week in the UK parliament, Foreign Secretary William Hague confirmed that Britain is supporting a proposal to the Quartet by Germany and...

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January 25, 2014

Rethink Strategy, Engage Hamas

My previous criticism of Hamas has disregarded the conditions on which the conflict was based and convoluted relationship between Israel and Palestinians. The stagnation of peace negotiations and internal...

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