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Dismantling the Empire

By Jim Miles (Dismantling the Empire – America’s Last Best Hope. Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, NY. 2010.) That the empire has caused much trouble and is in trouble itself has been […]

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Hamas: Israel Spies Arrested

The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, says it has discovered an Israeli-commissioned network of spies and collaborators, a senior official says. Some of the elements "were behind the assassination of leaders of the resistance," AFP quoted […]

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Abbas and Bibi Need Help

By George S. Hishmeh – Washington. D.C. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must have been very disappointed when she returned home last week virtually empty handed. She was not able to announce that the Israeli and […]

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Israeli Forces Raid al-Aqsa Mosque

Israeli forces have stormed the holy al-Aqsa Mosque in al-Quds (Jerusalem) to disperse Palestinians protesting against Israeli aggressions. Palestinian officials say the protests started after an Israeli guard shot and killed a 32-year old Palestinian […]

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Best Option: Dignified Failure

By Sam Bahour, Al-Bireh, The West Bank The entire U.S. administration’s Middle East A-team–President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, and Special Envoy Mitchell–is defying the mass majority of political analysts by dismissing the status quo […]

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A Shared State in a Shared Homeland

By Miko Peled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently argued, ‘What is required is creative, novel thinking in order to resolve these complex [peacemaking] issues.’ Netanyahu has never been so right.   The current Mideast peace talks […]

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Children of Catastrophe

By Jim Miles (Children of Catastrophe – Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America. Jamal Krayem Kanj. Garnet Publishing, Reading, UK. 2010.) Children of Catastrophe is a work of courage, love – of family, […]