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U.S. – led World Community Fails, Palestinians on Brink of Explosion

Barak Obama will go down in history as the first U.S. president who pushed a life - long Palestinian ally like Abbas to publicly pronounce the first ever pronounced Palestinian “disappointment” with the United States and its role as the (...)

28 Dec. 2009 | | nicola

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Christians of Palestine Decry ‘Absence of All Hope’

Palestinian Christian leaders, representing churches and church-related organizations, meeting in Bethlehem, the birth place of Jesus Christ, which is under the Israeli military occupation since 1967, have launched a "landmark campaign" aimed at enlisting (...)

21 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | nicola

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About Palestine: an Open letter to Barack Obama

Dear Mr. President, I recently wrote an article about your recent Nobel Prize on this website, justifying the Committee’s decision on the basis that you were providing vision and hope to millions in several key issues of the international stage. One (...)

25 Nov. 2009 | | Olivier Pilot

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Is there a logic to be adopted by the Israeli government against the Palestinians?

Shalom, Salam Aleikum. The parties involved must make every effort to convey a message of peace, love and brotherhood. We must welcome others in their diversity and stop taking the other for a potential enemy. Shalom, Salam Aleikum. It is time for Israeli (...)

10 Nov. 2009 | | Ngongo

International

After Arafat, will Tel Aviv hawks terminate Mahmoud Abbas ?

Abandoned by the US, humiliated by Netanyahu, crippled by his own behavior during the destruction of Gaza, Mahmoud Abbas announced that he had "no desire to run in the forthcoming election". The parallel with Yasser Arafat is clear, and Tel Aviv (...)

6 nov. 2009 | | Stephanemot

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U.S. ‘Personality Assassination’ of a Palestinian Ally

Viewed from the Middle East, the United States, which had signed agreements with more than seventy nations worldwide to ensure that American military are immune against national and international persecution in cases of human law violations, was perceived (...)

12 Oct. 2009 | 1 comment | nicola

International

Chronology of the Nakba

anout the palestinian israeli confilict

3 Sep. 2009 | | Jerusalem

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3 Jul. 2009 | 1 comment | nicola

International

Obama and Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

President Barack Obama says he will be more honest than past presidents with Israel. Israel, a great friend of the United States and a country we like and admire on its merits, has nevertheless dug itself into a very deep hole with its determination to (...)

2 jui. 2009 | | Juan Cole

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MRN Propaganda 101 : Lie !

Last month the Media Review Network (MRN) used their seemingly bottomless vault of cash to pay for a full page Palestinian propaganda advert. It may have appeared in numerous dailies, but I saw it in the Citizen. The advert, entitled “How Palestine (...)

27 mai. 2009 | | Almost Supernatural

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U.S. Moment of Truth on Palestinian - Israeli Conflict

Real peace-making seems yet to penetrate the moral consciousness of the U.S. leadership. Obama’s administration, if it doesn’t intend to change course, would do peace and history a great favor by disengagement from the conflict to pave the way (...)

18 Mar. 2009 | | nicola

International

Occupied Palestine : the horror continues

Tomorrow is the sixth anniversary of the death of peace activist Rachel Corrie, crushed to death by a caterpillar tractor driven by the Israeli Defense Forces in occupied Palestine. She was trying to negotiate with the driver not to destroy the homes of (...)

16 mar. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Politics

Netanyahu Refuses to Accept Palestine’s Right to Exist

In Haaretz, Aluf Benn takes a look at Bejamin Netanyahu’s opposition to the creation of an independent State of Palestine : There are obvious political reasons for Netanyahu’s refusal to demonstrate a more moderate stance : It would cost him (...)

2 mar. 2009 | | Matthew Yglesias

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Real Politik and Palestine

The inactivism and the set language of our European leaders and those of the Arab world about the Israeli-Palestine conflict, are causing reactions of frustrations in the world. How can we remain inactive towards the Israeli massacre, a part from (...)

3 Feb. 2009 | 2 comments | Arzum Karasu

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God is Dead: Nietzsche Right, Bush Wrong

At the end of every year, the world should question and check its codes and models. This article is a contribution to this principle, that is why it is subtitled ’2008: Things to Remember When Models without Essence Prevail.’ Normal 0 (...)

5 Jan. 2009 | 1 comment | Mohammed Hashas

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The ‘Other’, Older Palestinian Coup D’etat

PLO commitment to the Annapolis understandings was a milestone that vindicated Hamas fears and accusations that Abbas was leading and pursuing an older political coup d’Etat to deprive the Islamic movement from its electoral victory and at the same (...)

4 Dec. 2008 | | nicola

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A Peace Process That Makes Peace Impossible

Palestinian - Israeli peace-making can only deliver if Palestinians are united, but the current Annapolis “peace process” was launched first of all as a blueprint for perpetuating the inter- Palestinian divide. By Nicola Nasser Commitment or (...)

2 Dec. 2008 | | nicola

Arts & Entertainment

Indecent behaviour at a police station, TPCA 1847

This essay by Ian McEwan in the Guardian Review shows precisely why the Decent influence on British intellectual life is so damn depressing. You may think, and I would say the AaroWatch crew are guilty of this, that they are just a bunch of wankers left (...)

3 jui. 2008 | 1 comment | Alex Harrowell

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Palestinians Trapped at Crossroads

Firing home-made primitive rockets at Israeli targets from the Gaza Strip, the mass sweeping through the Palestinian - Egyptian border crossing of Rafah in January and the series of ongoing peaceful demonstrations at Gaza’s crossing points with (...)

2 Jun. 2008 | | nicola

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Chief Palestinian Negotiator to Israel: Acknowledge ’Right of Return’

Qurei Urges Israel to Acknowledge Palestinian ‘Right of Return’ ‘We Persist Now on Fighting a Fierce Battle of Peace’ By Nicola Nasser May 21, 2008 - Agreeing to the Israeli neo-historian Ilan Pappé’s interpretation of the (...)

21 May. 2008 | | nicola

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Israel-Palestine: Peace is possible, but not with two states

The Palestinian Authority Government of the West Bank, led by the Fatah party, and President Mahmoud Abbas, has decided to cut off relations with the State of Israel in response to the increased incursions into the Hamas governed Gaza Strip, which over (...)

3 Mar. 2008 | | AllPeopleUnite

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Israeli-palestinian conflict... and if we started to think?

After months or years listening to breaking news on television, I really don’t understand why there is a conflict in the Middle-East... and if I started to think?... So I’ve been looking for it on the Internet and hopefully release down here (...)

18 Feb. 2008 | | Alexandre Rupert

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Sustaining Palestinian Division, Reviving a Partner

Saving a Palestinian partner, whom they have rejected until Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in mid-June, has become the most important mission preoccupying the U.S. Administration and the Israeli government, a mission which nonetheless Palestinian (...)

13 Sep. 2007 | | nicola

International

Palestine’s human insecurity: a Gaza report

The dignity of Palestinians, along with their hopes of a political settlement, is being crushed by conflict, economic degradation, and the world’s neglect. Mient Jan Faber & Mary Kaldor’s visit to Gaza highlights the problems and suggests (...)

22 May. 2007 | 1 comment | openDemocracy

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The Palestinian Calendar

I decided that I needed a new Palestinian character. Not the rocket launching criminal or the bag-headed terrorist. Since I’ve been working in color I had the fun of dressing him in the Palestinian colors of Red, Green, Black, and White. I (...)

15 mai. 2007 | | Yaakov Kirschen

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The Media’s Silence on Tenet and Arafat

George Tenet’s new book, At the Center of the Storm : My Years at the CIA, has received lavish publicity - a segment on 60 Minutes, a front page story in the New York Times, and generally lavish coverage in the mainstream media. But here is one (...)

3 mai. 2007 | | Mediacrity

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Mbeki Continues to Surprise

When it comes to Israel and the Middle East, the presidency of Thabo Mbeki has not been short of surprises. Despite this country’s overt support for the Palestinians (nothing wrong with that if it doesn’t include anti-Israel prejudices), (...)

1er mai. 2007 | | Almost Supernatural

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