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  • January 30, 2014

    The peace process merry-go-round

    The 13th of September will mark 20 years since the White House lawn signing ceremony between Yasser Arafat and Yitzak Rabin, flanked by former US President Bill Clinton. The...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Israel's new plan of ethnic cleansing in the desert

    The birth of a “Jewish state” in a country overwhelmingly not Jewish required a massive act of ethnic cleansing in Palestine. Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias executed this...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Don't be fooled by Israel's "negotiations"

    The peace process circus continued this week, as officials from Israel met in Jerusalem with negotiators from its Palestinian Authority puppet regime Wednesday night. Meeting in secrecy at the...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Western powers "doing nothing" in Syria? If only

    Here we are again. A decade on from the American-British war of aggression against Iraq, the cruise-missile liberals are demanding that “something must be done” about Syrian President Bashar...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Israel's military dictatorship jails peaceful Palestinian activists

    Media coverage of the release of 26 Palestinian prisoners last week, such as it was, tended to focus on their alleged crimes. Especially in the Israeli media, the reader...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Inventing a genocide as pretext to bomb Syria

    Of all the stupid justifications given for the American plan to bomb Syria, this week I read the stupidest one yet in a Guardian column. Probably the most common...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Are Israeli spooks reading your emails?

    Courageous American journalist Glenn Greenwald had another massive scoop this week, revealing a secret agreement that American spy agency the NSA made with Israel. A memorandum of understanding between...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Israel and Saudi Arabia: the permanent counter-revolution

    What has the record of 2011’s Arab uprisings taught us so far? One could list many things, but to me, the most striking reality is the now open nature...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Edward Said's legacy lives inside us

    This past week marked a decade since the sad, early passing-away by cancer of Edward Said, and I would like to dedicate this column to him. Edward Said was...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Is Zionism more "Christian" than "Jewish"?

    A poll of American Jews published by Pew Research this week had a headline finding that many will perhaps find surprising: “Jews’ feelings for Israel are equaled or even exceeded...

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