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  • January 24, 2014

    Israel steps up its assassination policy in West Bank

    Bashir Habanin’s house is full of the things he has made. As a professor of Décor at Khadoury Technical College in Tulkarem, West Bank, he was always making furniture...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Deconstructing the UN's symbolic solidarity with Palestinians

    After decades of United Nations complicity allowing Israel’s colonisation of Palestine, the yearly International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People has been upgraded symbolically to encompass a whole...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Time for coordinated youth activism

    In recent years, many young Palestinian activists living in the 1948-occupied Palestinian territories (Israel) have been questioning the absence of a unified national activist movement, in light of the...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Palestinian political blunder

    Statements by chief negotiator Saeb Erekat have revealed the political blunder in Palestine. The man admitted that since the resumption of negotiations in July 2013, Israel has killed 31...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Israel doesn't do retaliation, just more of the same

    Once again we hear that Israel has bombed the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip “in retaliation” for something that they’ve done against Israelis. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land

    In the Palestinian Christian village of Iqrit, only the church was left standing. On Christmas Eve 1951, Israeli troops destroyed the village. The houses were turned to rubble and...

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  • January 24, 2014

    After five years of brutality, poverty is the legacy of Cast Lead

    Many will recall the days that stunned the world exactly five years ago, when Israel launched Operation Cast Lead against the Gaza Strip. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly...

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  • January 24, 2014

    President Abbas and his addiction to secret negotiations

    The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is addicted to negotiations and secret channels with the Israelis and therefore it was not surprising when it was revealed that secret meetings had...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Foreign dictates support the colonisation of Palestine

    Opposition to the Palestinian prisoners’ release reverberated during a meeting organised by Deputy Defence Minister Danny Danon. According to reports in Maariv, Danon called upon Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Dismissing Sunni grievances in Iraq is not a solution

    As the world focuses on the bloody civil war in Syria and the series of revolutions and counter-revolutions in Egypt, attention has drifted away from Iraq. Hundreds of thousands...

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