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January 23, 2014

No remorse for destruction of Palestinian villages

Former IDF commander, brigadier general of the Givati Brigade and Israeli ambassador to Tanzania, Yitzhak Pundak, expressed no remorse about the destruction of Palestinian villages in 1948, declaring it...

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January 23, 2014

The terrible tragedy of the Prisoner Ahmed al-Sakani

Imagine the story of a man waiting eagerly and anxiously for the arrival of his first born child, and as he waits, he is unjustly detained and sentenced to...

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January 23, 2014

Combatting Palestinian food insecurity

According to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Palestinians are faced with an additional and possibly permanent burden....

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January 23, 2014

The ongoing humiliation of Palestinian prisoners

While international outrage over the plight of Samer Issawi has abated considerably, after the agreement between Israeli and Palestinian officials which terminated his hunger strike, the deterioration of other...

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January 23, 2014

A deadly massacre on the eve of Ramadan

This morning army and police officers opened fire on pro-Morsi supporters as they prayed outside the Republican Headquarters in Cairo. The demonstrators were staging a peaceful sit-in outside the...

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January 23, 2014

EU parliament reminded of Palestinian political prisoners' plight

In a joint letter to the European Parliament, sixteen Palestinian and Israeli human rights organisations have urged the European Parliament to send a fact-finding mission to “assess the current...

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January 23, 2014

This Egyptian struggle transcends borders

What is going on in Egypt is not merely a political crisis but also an Egyptian struggle which transcends borders and will, no doubt, affect the Islamic world, putting...

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January 23, 2014

Opposition to release of Palestinian political prisoners

Israel’s reported decision to release 82 pre-Oslo Palestinian political prisoners has unleashed a furore among right wing Knesset members who are opposing the move. The prisoners who are mostly...

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January 23, 2014

Proposed Knesset reforms would undermine Palestinian representation

On Wednesday, the Knesset is expected to vote for parliamentary reform allegedly intended to preserve unity and enhance the government’s prospects of serving a full electoral mandate. Based upon...

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January 23, 2014

Deconstructing resistance into a 'hobby'

“Children have hobbies, and my hobby is throwing stones.” The simplistic, out of context comment, uttered by a Palestinian teenager interviewed for a recently published New York Times report,...

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