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US Republican Senator John McCain has criticised US Secretary of State John Kerry's performance in the Middle East, arguing that US influence in the Arab world "has never been...
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Lawmakers in the US Congress reached an agreement on Monday in both the House and the Senate on the proposed federal budget for 2014, which would allocate $520.5 billion...
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Israel of delaying a political settlement with the Palestinians saying, "Force cannot defeat or defuse the demographic time bomb. The only...
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Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat revealed on Friday that the US president Barack Obama considers the Palestinian Authority's (PA) application to the UN for non-member state as crossing all...
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A US newspaper has said that the American president Barack Obama has called for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop candidly rebuking the temporary deal over Iran's...
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UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk has claimed that "Israel is slouching towards nothing less than a Palestinian holocaust" in his comments about the abuse of human rights in the...
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The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been forced to halt the construction of a new IDF training academy on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem...
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Israel's Maariv newspaper revealed on Monday new details of US Secretary of State John Kerry's framework proposal for pushing the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations forward. According to the newspaper, Kerry has...
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Deputy Turkish Prime Minister Poland Areng has condemned the demand of US Secretary of State John Kerry that Recep Tayyip Erdogan postpone his visit to the Gaza Strip planned...
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America's representative to the UN Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, has called for the resignation of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories,...
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Turkey's prime minister has questioned why it is the Americans, and not the Israelis, who have responded to his criticism of the State of Israel. "Why would the United...
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A report in the Washington Post claims that, last year, the Turkish government passed to the government in Tehran a list of ten Mossad agents active in Iran. The...
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The latest Russian-Egyptian rapprochement and new signs of cooperation between the two countries has aroused worries in the US, Israel and other regional powers, Anba Moscow reported. The Russian...
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Iran and the world powers have reached a deal in Geneva on Tehran's nuclear program; Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed. A senior US official said according to...
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Israeli newspaper Maariv revealed on Monday that US Secretary of State John Kerry has decided to ask Israel to postpone the release of the third batch of Palestinian prisoners...
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US Secretary of State John Kerry has asked the Jordanian and Saudi kings to put pressure on the Palestinian Authority (PA) president, Mahmoud Abbas, to recognise Israel as a...
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Historically the US political and media mainstream has often dismissed those who are critical of Israeli policies as anti-Semitic, making it difficult for solidarity activists, including Jewish Americans, to...
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After much political drama and media fanfare, US Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to rekindle "peace talks" between Israel and Palestine finally commenced this week with a meeting...
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In the days following the official resumption of US-led "peace talks" between Israel and Palestine, the Israeli government decided to expand its list of illegal settlements eligible for government...
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Last April, the Zionist Organization of America and the student group Owls for Israel invited Israeli Colonel Bentzi Gruber to speak at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Gruber was traveling...
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When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington two years ago, the US Congress gave him 29 standing ovations, four more than they had given to President Obama...
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Many Western activists are sceptical of the role of religion in Palestine solidarity. Beyond the problem of Islamophobia, which is sadly manifest across the political spectrum, activist views of...
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In North America, the mainstream media is not exactly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. This presents a huge obstacle for solidarity activists who want to change the hegemonic discourse...
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and to celebrate the organisation has been holding a series of high profile events across...
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It is widely known that Israel and its allies spend millions of dollars to promote Zionism on college and university campuses across the US. Zionist organisations fund student groups...
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Last month, the Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad staged a protest at Al-Quds University that sparked an international controversy, leading two American universities to take the decision to sever ties...
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MEMO published an article recently by Egyptian scholar and diplomat Abdullah Al-Ashaal about what he calls the disastrous "bartering policy" framework of the ongoing negotiations between Israel and the...
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January 30, 2014
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This month's historic disclosures about the US National Security Agency by tireless journalist Glenn Greenwald have embarrassed the Obama administration and its allies. Greenwald's source is Edward Snowden, a...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Here we are again. A decade on from the American-British war of aggression against Iraq, the cruise-missile liberals are demanding that "something must be done" about Syrian President Bashar...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Courageous American journalist Glenn Greenwald had another massive scoop this week, revealing a secret agreement that American spy agency the NSA made with Israel. A memorandum of understanding between...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
Only a week ago I wrote in this very column of my hope for more revelations about Israel emerging from the cache of secret National Security Agency documents leaked...
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
The alliance between the apartheid state of Israel and the absolutist monarchy of the Saudi royal dictatorship is no longer merely tacit. After recent diplomatic moves to cool tensions...
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