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March 29, 2014
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Ben White
Last week, EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen warned on Israeli television that the country would face "increasing isolation" if the peace process collapsed, echoing remarks he made in...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
Israel's approach to the Gaza Strip has never been static; it changes according to the government's priorities and short or long-term strategic goals. As early as 1991, Israel implemented...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
As the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement, launched by Palestinian groups in 2005, has grown, some strategies and targets have attracted more controversy than others. The academic boycott campaign...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
At the end of August, a civil suit brought by the family of Rachel Corrie came to an end with a Haifa judge ruling that the State of Israel...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
The right of return of Palestinian refugees is often presented as a stumbling block to peace, a 'final status issue' that will require a great and painful 'compromise'. But...
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January 30, 2014
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Imagine if the mayor of a major British city declared it official policy to keep the number of ethnic or religious minority residents as a proportion of the population...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
With Israeli elections just around the corner, Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to retain his position at the head of a coalition government. Tzipi Livni, former foreign minister and...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
The Palestinians' Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign is making headlines, thanks to pro-Israel advocates' attack on an event scheduled for tonight at Brooklyn College in New York. In a...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
On 26 February, Palestinians fired a rocket into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, the first such projectile attack since the ceasefire that brought an end to Israel's eight-day...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
In March 2012, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) published unprecedentedly harsh concluding observations following Israel's periodic review. In what one expert called "the...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the historic ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Zionist movement, and the establishment of the State of Israel on the rubble of hundreds...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
In recent weeks the UK government has once again shown itself to be entirely unwilling to hold Israeli war crimes suspects to account, to the extent that the Foreign...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
Two weeks ago, Israel's outgoing ambassador to the US Michael Oren was interviewed by Fareed Zakaria on CNN. In the context of discussing renewed negotiations, Zakaria asked Oren about...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
As students begin a new academic year, there are signs that pro-Israel propaganda initiatives at Britain's universities are being given a boost. The Union of Jewish Students (UJS) has...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
Last week, in response to a long-running legal challenge, Israel's Supreme Court ruled in favour of the status quo whereby the country's population registry does not allow "Israeli" as...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
Discussion about a one state solution in Palestine/Israel is moving into the mainstream. As its advocates gain a platform for their views, defenders of ethnic separation are increasingly falling...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
In late September, retired senior U.S. military officials were part of a delegation that went to Egypt on a visit organized by Virginia-based think tank the Westminster Institute (WI),...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
At the regular cabinet meeting on Sunday, Israeli PM Netanyahu repeated a demand that as part of any future agreement with the Palestinians, Israel would maintain a "security border"...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
In December 2000, the first Herzliya Conference took place, a now annual event and regular fixture in the diaries of politicians, military officials and defense industry figures from Israel...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
The tourists heading to Bethlehem this festive season will come from far and wide – but all of them will enjoy more freedom of movement than the city's residents...
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January 30, 2014
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Ben White
At a recent conference on Palestine in Doha, organised by Azmi Bishara's Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies, there was one thing that everyone agreed on: the Palestinian...
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January 30, 2014
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At the end of 2013 came a shocking update from Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus – at least 15 Palestinians had died of hunger since September. The grim news...
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January 29, 2014
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Ben White
Earlier this month, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman declared in a high profile speech that "he would not support any peace agreement that does not include the exchange of...
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