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January 23, 2014

Palestine's search page on Google 'harms peace'

Israel’s furore at Google’s decision to replace Palestinian Territories with Palestine in its localised search pages led foreign minister Ze’ev Elkin to issue a statement addressed to Google’s CEO,...

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January 23, 2014

Stephen Hawking's boycott decision elicits Zionist hatred

Academic boycotts seem to resonate deeply within Israel, veering towards the dynamics of vengeance. Cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott the Israeli Presidential Conference sparked a furore on social...

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January 23, 2014

The ICC on trial

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that it will launch a preliminary inquiry into Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, which resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish...

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January 23, 2014

Israeli law seeks to protect IDF from 'defamation'

The Israeli Ministerial Law Committee has approved a law developed by Yoni Chetboun of Jewish Home party, which would enable the IDF to press charges against individuals or entities...

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January 23, 2014

Impunity, denial and requests for independent investigations in al Durrah's killing

Rewriting history in the Israeli narrative is as simple as refusing calls for independent inquiries into the countless crimes of the occupation. Years after Muhammad al-Durrah’s death in 2000,...

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January 23, 2014

B'Tselem report raises fundamental question about criminal accountability

Despite Israeli rhetoric about precision strikes and avoidance of civilian casualties during Operation Pillar of Defence, B’Tselem’s report portrays a grim reality. According to the report, the Israeli military...

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January 23, 2014

Offering practical solutions to the bloody conflict in Syria

What can be done for a country whose death toll is close to 94,000; where 1.5 million refugees have fled the violence, executions are widespread, crimes are committed by...

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January 23, 2014

The Roots of the Middle East Conflict

During the research for my latest book Imperial Designs: War, Humiliation and the Making of History (Potomac Books – the University of Nebraska Press, 2013) I came across something...

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January 23, 2014

Ze'ev Elkin and government for settlers

Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Ze’ev Elkin, has claimed that settlements ‘have become a fact of life that must be recognised’. In an interview with Associated Press, Elkin, himself a...

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January 23, 2014

A right royal Syrian mess

In 1916 Britain and France secretly devised a plot to carve up and share out the Middle East between them. Under the authority of the Skykes-Picot Agreement it was...

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