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  • January 30, 2014

    Israel and America spy on each other

    Only a week ago I wrote in this very column of my hope for more revelations about Israel emerging from the cache of secret National Security Agency documents leaked...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Enough conspiracy theories about Yasser Arafat’s assassination

    Palestinians have long suspected their leader Yasser Arafat was assassinated by Israel. Thanks to Clayton Swisher and his team at the Al Jazeera Investigations Unit, we have new evidence...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Syria: the revolution that never was

    Due to the large number of complaints we’ve received which deemed this article to be offensive to the sacrifices of the Syrian people in their struggle for justice, it...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Time to shed more light on the Israel lobby

    The new Spinwatch report into BICOM, a leading force in Britain’s Israel lobby, makes for essential reading. MEMO is to be commended for funding its publication. The Britain Israel...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Nelson Mandela’s long history of support for Palestine

    The death of South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela last night has brought in floods of well-deserved tributes. But the hypocrisy of many of these, often from the very...

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  • January 30, 2014

    In broad daylight, a Saudi-Israeli alliance

    The alliance between the apartheid state of Israel and the absolutist monarchy of the Saudi royal dictatorship is no longer merely tacit. After recent diplomatic moves to cool tensions...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Israel’s West Bank torture regime

    The slow disintegration of living conditions in the West Bank continues apace. But this is no natural disaster or complicated economic malaise. This is a very deliberately created policy,...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Boycott Israel campaign succeeding despite minimal resources

    Two indirectly-related stories from the US this week struck me in a particular way. Firstly, it was a big week for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign. The...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Shared ideology helps explain US support for Israel

    Last month during a debate in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, there was a disturbing comment made by one of the right-wing politicians. It was racist remark that revealed much...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Egypt’s farcical election

    The farce continues. Since the July coup that overthrew elected President Mohammed Morsi last year, Egypt has gone from disaster to disaster. As flawed and problematic as his administration...

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