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  • January 28, 2014

    Their money and our lives

    By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban At last, it has been acknowledged that Western intelligence agencies tortured innocent people for years in the notorious Guantanamo prison. The admission came through the British...

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  • January 28, 2014

    British parliament debates Palestinian children prisoners

    By Renee Bowyer I visited the family of a twelve year old boy arrested on a Sunday morning. They lived in a small room on the outskirts of Balata...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Permanent Temporariness

    It was in 2003 that I realised something fundamental had changed. The door to the room in which I was sitting flew open. In stalked a figure still dressed...

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  • January 28, 2014

    An engagement ring, a pendant and the seeds of two dates

    The lack of Western news coverage of the tragic case of the Eqdiah family, devastated by an Israeli rocket attack on their home in Gaza, is puzzling. Although the...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Does Britain really support justice?

    It is one of the long-standing riddles of the Israel-Palestine conflict that Britain and other democratic states do not appear to support genuine justice for Palestinians. While all MPs...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Palestinian Christians express dismay with archbishop of Canterbury

    A letter that was sent by Rifat Kassis of Kairos Palestine this weekend to the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the letter to Dr Rowan Williams Kairos Palestine said… Bethlehem, 18 June...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Phillips leaves the Spectator as the complaints pile up

    Poor ol’ Melanie Phillips. In today’s Guardian, the Conservative Party chair Sayeeda Warsi goes on the offensive: “I don’t read her, actually. I call her Mad Mel,” Lady Warsi...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Palestinian activists: unwelcome guests?

    In arresting Mr Salah for remarks he denies he made, a British home secretary is being even more intolerant than Israel Sheikh Raed Salah, an Israeli citizen who leads...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Weiss' Knickers in Knot Over Sheikh Salah

    Michael Weiss, that insufferable, braying pro-Israel zealot, has his knickers in a knot over Sheikh Salah’s visit to England. The Telegraph blogger began his crusade before Salah arrived, with a...

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  • January 28, 2014

    Sheikh's arrest is an attempt to sabotage the legitimacy of the Palestinian cause

    The circumstances surrounding Sheikh Raed Salah’s arrest by the British government are irregular to say the least. He was taken from his hotel bedroom last Tuesday night and is...

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