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No Fulbright Grants for Gaza Students

The United States has withdrawn all Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip because of Israel’s crippling siege on the coastal enclave, home to 1.6 million Palestinians. "Now I am desperate," Hadeel Abukwaik, […]

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One Country or Two?

By Qays Abd Al-kareem Talking about a onestate solution, as opposed to a two-state solution, would be escaping forward and avoiding all the hard obstacles that are facing the Palestinian struggle for liberation, instead of […]

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Thoughts Are Free, Entry Is Not

By Joharah Baker Unfortunately, Palestinians are no longer surprised at Israel’s racist policies. Discrimination against Palestinians and those who support them has become the rule, not the exception. Still, when the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal […]

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Terror Knows No Faith

By Aijaz Zaka Syed "I am puzzled at your silence and the silence of your newspaper on the Jaipur blasts," wrote in an intelligent reader based in the US. Venkat, an Indian techie, (not his […]

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John Hagee’s Not-So-Bright Vision

By Ramzy Baroud The recent uproar surrounding Pastor John Hagee is only remarkable in the sense that it took so long in coming. The fundamentalist pastor of the 19,000-member Cornerstone "mega-church" in San Antonio, Texas […]

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In the Propaganda Game, Israel Easily Wins

By Stuart Littlewood Some time ago Hamas complained that the Palestinian Authority was not getting its message across thanks to "poorly qualified or unqualified spokespersons with inadequate political and linguistic abilities". Diplomacy had failed and […]

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Stop the Oil Speculators

By Ralph Nader What factors are causing the zooming price of crude oil, gasoline and heating products? What is going to be done about it? Don’t rely on the White House—with Bush and Cheney marinated […]

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Donating Israel Prize to Palestinians

A prominent American mathematician has donated an Israeli financial prize awarded for him to Palestinian students living under Israeli restrictions. "I decided to donate my share of the Wolf Prize to enable the academic community […]

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Olmert’s Peace Spin

By Gilad Atzmon Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert assured the daily Haaretz that the negotiation with Syria is nothing less than an ‘historic breakthrough’. He is absolutely correct. It’s the first time in Israel’s history […]

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Escaping Forwards

By Uri Avnery The Germans call it "die Flucht nach vorne" – escaping forwards. When the situation is desperate, attack! Instead of retreating, advance! When there is no way out, storm ahead! This method was […]

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It’s about TIME

By Jim Miles For the past several months I have been receiving TIME magazine. The subscription originally started as a gift from someone unknown, with my last name spelled wrong, lasted for a year. When […]

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Qurei on Palestinian Right of Return

Introduction by Nicola Nasser Agreeing to the Israeli neo-historian Ilan Pappe’s interpretation of the term "Nakba," Palestinian chief negotiator Ahmad Qurei said that peace and peace negotiations with Israel "could not hang on forever," warned that […]