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January 29, 2014

Has the EU begun to speak its mind about Israel’s occupation?

On the question of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel’s settlement project, the stated policy of the European Union, and its member states including the UK, is clear: the...

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January 29, 2014

Enforcing Housing Rights: The Case of Sheikh Jarrah

In December 2010, I accompanied a group of expert eviction lawyers from England on a visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories. We examined the case of Sheikh Jarrah and...

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January 29, 2014

Reflections on international law, history and the future of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations

As a lawyer who is also trying his hand as a historian, I am aware that the truth can only be reached by going beyond accepted mythologies and confronting...

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January 29, 2014

Obama, American Jewry and the prospects for Middle East peace

Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts have been at a standstill since 2009, and no new initiative will emerge from either side soon. The Netanyahu government is not interested in a two-state...

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January 29, 2014

A decade of lies, but who punishes the media?

It has been ten years since Iraq was invaded by the coalition forces led by the United States of America. The Bush administration, upon whose insistence the invasion took...

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January 29, 2014

American media distortion on Palestine

Thirteen years ago I knew very little about Israel-Palestine. Like most Americans, this seemed to be a distant, confusing conflict that had little to do with me. I was...

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January 29, 2014

Christian Zionism: The New Heresy that Undermines Middle East Peace

At least one in four American Christians surveyed recently by Christianity Today magazine said that they believe it is their biblical responsibility to support the nation of Israel. This...

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January 29, 2014

If Israeli Jews want Palestinians to listen to our narrative, we have to make radical changes

In recent years I’ve developed a habit: anytime I am in America (invited to various lectures and conferences), I read about the indigenous peoples who have lived wherever I...

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January 29, 2014

Egypt: Difficult challenge for US policymakers post-Arab Spring

Like a political tsunami uprisings swept across much of the Arab world, toppling in rapid succession the entrenched autocratic regimes of Zeinul Abedin Ben Ali in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak...

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January 29, 2014

Powerful symbols and the British-Zionist alliance: approaching the centenary of the Balfour Declaration

The Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917 was central to the wartime British-Zionist alliance and a powerful Zionist-Jewish propaganda tool. As the centenary of the Declaration approaches it is...

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