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Items by Dr Mohammad Makram Balawi
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Israel in self-destruction mode
Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi once said, “Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.” I don’t know if this applies to the current Israeli political elite, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for one. One of the things that drew my attention when I read the…
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Palestinians have won a moral victory, but what will happen next?
This week, the Palestinians won a moral victory. The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) released a report that sheds light on the killing of peaceful Palestinian demonstrators in the Gaza Strip since March last year. “Report of the independent international commission of inquiry on the protests in the Occupied Palestinian…
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Gantz or Netanyahu, Israel’s policies against the Palestinians will remain the same
The Israeli General Election in April will be interesting, not only because there is a good chance that the world will see the political end of Benjamin Netanyahu and his lies, but also because it will present us with a clearer image of what Israel is and how its so-called…
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Israel’s anti-BDS strategy simply peddles more myths and lies
Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs has released a report called Terrorists in Suits: The Ties Between NGOs promoting BDS and Terrorist Organisations. The report has a sense of melodrama, especially its pictures of BDS activists pinned to a noticeboard with red pins connected by red thread, like a scene from…
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The Fence: Scenes from a Palestinian tragedy
Prologue For decades, Israeli leaders and media have insisted that Palestinians left their homes in the Nakba of 1948, leaving everything behind to become refugees of their own free will. Millions spent seven decades scattered in neighbouring countries and elsewhere, were denied the right to return to their homes in…
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Gantz’ election videos shouldn’t come as a surprise
General Benjamin (Benny) Gantz, the 20th Chief of General Staff of the Israeli army, was charged in March 2010 with illegally expanding his house onto public property. Upon his appointment as army Chief of Staff, Ynet wrote: “The attorney general’s office said there were flaws in Gantz’s conduct which were…
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An Alliance of Despotism
Until Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ultra-religious, right-wing party came into power, we Palestinians used to have a lot of difficulties convincing the rest of the world that Israel is not a modern, democratic country as Zionists continue to claim. It is, rather, a reactionary, religion-based, race-based, neo-colonialist…