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  • January 25, 2014

    The art of black propaganda

    Reports that the headquarters of the Palestinian Journalists Union in Gaza have been shut down by Hamas security forces should concern everyone with an interest in hearing the truth...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Legislating Fascism

    By Khalid Amayreh The Right-wing Israeli government on Sunday, 10 October,  approved a proposal that  would force non-Jewish citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a Jewish state. The  proposal...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Tantrums and sheeshas, but who will care when Israel self-destructs?

    By Yvonne Ridley in Syria After the collapse of the faux Middle East peace talks Israel’s growing isolation in the world is not entirely unexpected. A side-effect is that...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Are we equipping the Palestinians to tolerate the intolerable?

    A conference in Beirut last week focussed on the shift of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from “Relief and Works...

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  • January 25, 2014

    When will this conspiracy of silence end?

    By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban The recent and latest – but probably not the last – images of prisoners being abused by Israeli soldiers showed a blindfolded Palestinian woman trying...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Were “the chosen people” picked for their virtues or vices?

    By Khalid AmayrehThe recent Vatican synod on the deteriorating situation in Palestine-Israel did the right thing by pointing out that Israel ought to discontinue the use of the controversial...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Hate-filled Israeli rabbis incite violence against non-Jews

    By Omar Radwan Vitriolic racism and hatred has become the Israeli normIsrael appears to be awash with Jewish hate preachers. In the past, rabbis who issued racist edicts or...

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  • January 25, 2014

    New photographs reveal IDF’s “purity of arms” claim to be a sick joke

    By Omar Radwan A new set of photographs taken by Israeli soldiers has appeared on the Facebook page of the Israeli human rights group “Breaking the Silence”.  These photos...

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  • January 25, 2014

    A short news story

    By Dr. Bouthaina ShaabanNews that a “strategic dialogue” was to take place between Israel and the United States was very brief; the news agencies hardly mentioned it. The names...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Who are the real prisoners?

    By Dr Bouthaina Shaaban When I asked in my previous article, “When will this conspiracy of silence end?” concerning more than eleven thousand Palestinian prisoners kidnapped from their homes...

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