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January 29, 2014

The Palestinian Agreement is a major achievement

The recent agreement between the Palestinian groups creates the potential for real progress. After decades of conflict in the Middle East and countless abortive efforts to put in place...

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January 29, 2014

Apartheid in duplicate

In a peculiar twist of history both Zionist Israel and Apartheid South Africa came into existence in May 1948; they went on to become something of a grim double...

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January 29, 2014

Three lives in the West Bank

1. Samer, Jerusalem If you live in Ramallah and work in Jerusalem, the time your journey will take to the office is an unknown quantity. It could be an...

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January 29, 2014

Forget the distractions; the realities of Israel's Occupation demand its end

Tons of paper, gigabytes of email and hours of talking heads on TV, led up to the psycho-political drama of the unknown territory that was the application for UN...

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January 29, 2014

Testimony to the Russell Tribunal on Palestine: Apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

In November 2011 the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will hold a session in Cape Town on the question of whether or not Israel is guilty of committing the international...

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January 29, 2014

Time for outrage against academic support for Israel

Persistent campaigning by the Palestine solidarity movement has turned Veolia into something of a toxic brand. From Manchester to Melbourne, local authorities have been quizzed about their dealings with...

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January 29, 2014

The PLO and the continuing project to win Palestinian national liberation

The reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas that has been under discussion since last April now seems to be moving to a new level, with the leaders of these two...

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January 29, 2014

Jewish settlements in the rulings of the European Court of Justice

Introduction After decades of human suffering resulting from Israel’s occupation and illegal colonisation of Palestinian territory; fruitless and stalled negotiations; moribund policies; and legal options being overlooked in favour...

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January 29, 2014

BICOM: Defending the occupation

Lorna Fitzsimons believes that Israel’s lurch to the right is just one facet of a global democratic crisis, but I would argue that the Israeli rejectionism that she defended...

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January 29, 2014

UNRWA needs support not brickbats

Ever since its creation in 1949 by General Assembly Resolution 302, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has had to defend...

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