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December 4, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
In August, unarmed African-American teenager Mike Brown was shot dead while his hands were up. White police officer Darren Wilson gunned him down in the suburb of Ferguson, St....
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December 1, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Last weekend the anti-virus company Symantec released details of a newly-detected piece of malware that it had intercepted and been decoding for some time. Several other anti-virus vendors released...
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November 28, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Former Mossad director Shabtai Shavit's piece in Israeli newspaper Haaretz this week gave some good indications of the thinking and strategy of a certain influential segment of liberal Zionist...
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November 27, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Former Mossad director Shabtai Shavit had a most notable opinion piece printed in the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz this week. Entitled, "For the first time, I fear for the...
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October 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
An attack against the Egyptian military in the Sinai peninsula on Friday resulted in the death of 31 soldiers. No group has yet claimed responsibility, but reports suggest that...
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October 25, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Watch the BBC's coverage and it may have you believing that Israel is a small, embattled outpost of modern "civilisation" in the war-ravaged Middle East. A "villa in the...
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October 20, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
The vote last week in the House of Commons to recognise the Palestinian Authority as the "state" of Palestine rallied a large degree of popular support. The Palestine Solidarity...
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October 10, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
With the eyes of the world's media well and truly off of Gaza and onto the hideous situations in Iraq and Syria, the Palestinian people are once again neglected;...
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October 2, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
British jets began bombing Iraq yet again last week. Another war against this beleaguered country, an Arab country that has been decimated and torn apart by decades of Western-imposed...
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September 26, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Today, Friday 26 September, the House of Commons is slated to take yet another vote on yet another war in Iraq. This time, the putative bombing campaign (already started...
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In August, secret National Security Agency documents revealed from the cache leaked by Edward Snowden to journalist Glenn Greenwald once again addressed Israel. The documents give further insight into...
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September 14, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Al Jazeera this week revealed an explosive letter from the office of the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. In it, Fatou Bensouda recounted a meeting with Riad...
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September 5, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Over the course of 51 bloody and terrible days of Israeli slaughter in the Gaza Strip in July and August, more than 2,100 Palestinians were killed by Israel. According...
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August 8, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
As Palestinian bodies are still being dug out of the rubble, it is too soon to tell the final death toll of Israel's brutal assault on the Gaza Strip...
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August 1, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
On Tuesday night there was a dramatic media event. People all across Palestine, and Arabs all over the world, watched transfixed. Al-Aqsa TV, a channel affiliated to Hamas, released...
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Palestinians have as diverse political differences as any other nation. In many rural parts, the conservative values of Hamas, Palestine's Islamic resistance movement, have a lot of influence, as...
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July 13, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
In my role as an editor over at The Electronic Intifada, I deal with comments submitted from readers, moderating them as they come in. Over the last couple of...
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June 27, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Two weeks ago, three Israeli settler youths went missing while hitch-hiking in the occupied West Bank. Israel has officially blamed Hamas, Palestine's Islamic resistance movement. But government officials have...
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June 21, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Much ink has been spilled this past fortnight, since the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) swept through and occupied a large swathe of Iraq. While it seems...
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June 14, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
During the last Israeli war against Lebanon in 2006, the Lebanese resistance forces, led by Hezbollah, mostly stayed north of the border. Aside from a brief border skirmish that...
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June 1, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Israel is sometimes praised by clueless liberals because it does not carry out the death penalty. This is sometimes even contrasted with many of the surrounding countries that do...
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May 19, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
The publication of Glenn Greenwald's new book this week has been eagerly awaited – not least by myself. Giving the inside story of how he broke one of the...
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May 7, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Veteran American security correspondent Jeff Stein writes the SpyTalk column for Newsweek, and published a most telling piece on their website yesterday. It provided the latest insight into the...
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April 27, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Thursday here in Palestine was Prisoners' Day, and demonstrations of solidarity were held across the West Bank and Gaza. The annual event calls for the release of Palestinian political...
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April 5, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
David Cameron this week splashily announced a "review" into the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK. Right away, it seemed to me an obvious farce. The sheer...
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March 29, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Last week I finished reading Abdel Bari Atwan's latest book, After Bin Laden: al-Qaeda, the Next Generation. This renowned Palestinian journalist is regarded as an international expert on al-Qaeda,...
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March 29, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
David Cameron was visiting the Israeli government in occupied Palestine this week. Reading his speech to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, it is striking just how grovelling it is. Cameron...
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March 29, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
With an acting government in power in Ukraine, Channel 4 News last night reported from Kiev on some of the latest developments. This included an interview with Right Sector...
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March 29, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
On Monday Israel's parliament, the Knesset passed yet another retrograde and discriminatory law. But there was a new twist this time. Racist Likud legislator Yariv Levin championed the law....
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March 29, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Despite September's narrow House of Commons defeat for the government's push to launch a war against Syria, there are signs that rumblings about western "intervention" could be set to...
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March 29, 2014
Asa Winstanley
The "peace process" freak show shambles on. Since August, Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials have met for secretive meetings supposedly intended to resolve the "conflict". Under the emerging "framework"...
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March 29, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
With the recent Scarlett Johansen affair, mainstream media coverage of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement reached new heights around the world. The Hollywood actor was backed into...