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All Quiet on the Eastern Front

By Uri Avnery – Israel People endowed with sensitive political ears were startled this week by two words, which, so it seemed, escaped from the mouth of Binyamin Netanyahu by accident: “Eastern front”. Once upon […]

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Hamas Calls Arab League ‘Ineffective’

Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal says the Arab League’s endorsement of direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians indicates the body’s ineffective leadership. Describing the decision made by the Arab Peace Initiative committee as […]

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Netanyahu Fears Ouster over WB Freeze

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says succumbing to international pressures to maintain a 10 month settlement freeze could overthrow his cabinet. In November, Netanyahu announced a partial, 10-month moratorium on West Bank settlement expansions to […]

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Israel Renders 300 Bedouins Homeless

Hundreds of Israeli forces have attacked Bedouins living in the Negev desert, demolishing their village and leaving about 300 villagers homeless. According to rights activists, more than 1,500 Israeli police forces arrived at the al-Araqib […]

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US Vessel to Break Gaza Siege

A pro-Palestinian American group has reportedly initiated a humanitarian campaign to sail an aid vessel to the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip. The "US Boat to Gaza" has begun attracting funds for the purchase of the vessel, […]

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Lieberman: WB Settlement must Resume

Israeli foreign minister has voiced support for illegal settlements on Palestinian land, calling for the resumption of construction projects in the occupied West Bank. “From September we must resume normal life here,” Avigdor Lieberman said […]

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Israeli MP Warns of Third Intifada

A Palestinian lawmaker in the Israeli parliament has warned Tel Aviv that its continued marginalization of Arab Israeli citizens could trigger a third intifada. An article published by the UK’s Guardian newspaper on Sunday, Hanin […]

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Israel’s Secret Police Exposed

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The arrest by Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, of an Israeli Jew accused of killing at least four Palestinians has thrown a rare light on the secret police, including […]

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Arab Oil, a Blessing and a Curse

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan While important transformations are taking place within the thinly populated oil producing Arab states (APC) due to their wealth, the capital-hungry nonoil producing Arab states are barely managing to feed their […]

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Israeli Planes Pound Southern Gaza

Israel war planes have launched an airstrike on the southern Gaza Strip, targeting Palestinian tunnels across the border between the blockaded enclave and Egypt. Missiles from Israeli aircraft destructed two tunnels early on Monday, but […]

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Israel Slams UNHRC Flotilla Probe

Israel has criticized the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for appointing what it calls a biased committee to probe Tel Aviv’s deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid convoy. An unnamed Israeli official in an […]