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  • January 25, 2014

    Syrian uprising exposes regime's opportunism over Palestine

    In their 63 year struggle against the occupation and colonisation of their homeland, the Palestinians have been short of friends and allies.  The main world powers have taken Israel’s...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Right of Return and the Right to Break the Fence

    When the 12-year-old ‘Imad saw his mother prepare some sandwiches, which they can have during the march on 15/5/2011 to the southern Lebanese borders with Palestine, he wondered in...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Waves of attacks against West Bank mosques

    In recent months, there have been repeated attacks by Israeli settlers against mosques across the West Bank. They were carried out with the complicity of Israel’s occupation army and...

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  • January 25, 2014

    King Abdullah's bleak forecast

    In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Jordan’s King Abdullah II voiced alarm and frustration over Israel’s determination to throttle every promise for a peaceful resolution of the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    How much longer will the West allow this inhuman, illegal and immoral siege to continue?

    The sun is shining, the beach is filling up and the squeal of car tyres and screech of car horns is pervasive. I could be in Beirut or any...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Of course the Flotilla is a political provocation

    As the launch of the Freedom Flotilla – Stay Human approaches, increasing numbers of Zionist officials and commentators illuminate the depths of their moral and intellectual bankruptcy by arguing...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Betting on the United Nations

    The Palestinian territories and the Zionist state have recently witnessed some political manouvres  represented by the visit of US envoy David Hill and the Head of Foreign Affairs for...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Palestinian Authority's historic mistake and opportunity

    No one knows the precise plans of the Palestinian Authority vis-a-vis September: will Mahmoud Abbas declare a Palestinian state within recognized borders and ask that it be admitted as...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Sarkozy and "Holy Shalit"

    It was a humanitarian gesture of some signficance for French President Nicolas Sarkozy to send a letter to Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who is being held captive in Gaza,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Why the Palestinians should never recognize Israel as a Jewish state

    One of the obsessive demands Israel keeps invoking these days is that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state as a precondition for a possible peace settlement...

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