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Israeli PR Fails the Test

By Stuart Littlewood – London When Ron Prosor arrived in London last year to take up his post as Israeli ambassador he was eager to step up public relations. He told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: […]

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Olympic Follies and Triumphs

By Ramzy Baroud To run a full marathon experts suggest that the aspiring athlete requires at least six months of rigorous training, proper gear, a particular diet, regular check-ups, mental focus and preparation, and a […]

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Is Israel One Disaster from Collapse?

By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz – New York Israelis are not united in supporting their government’s policies of a four-decade festering occupation of Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese territories. The occupation is costly, morally troubling and beyond […]

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Jewish Settlements Doubled: Report

Israel has nearly doubled the construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories since last year, placing more obstacles in the road of peace. "Despite the Israeli government’s renewed commitment during the Annapolis Summit […]

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Empty Gestures will Not Help Abbas

By Ghassan Khatib Israel’s decision to release some 200 Palestinian prisoners as a "goodwill gesture" to President Mahmoud Abbas comes not long after the exchange of prisoners and bodies, including many Palestinians, between Israel and Hizballah […]

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Sailing into Gaza

By Huwaida Arraf – Gaza On Saturday, after 32 hours on the high seas, I sailed into the port of Gaza City with 45 other citizens from around the world in defiance of Israel’s blockade. […]

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Politics of Avoidance

By Ralph Nader The “politics of avoidance” is receiving a great deal of media attention during this period of national political conventions. Unfortunately, the newspapers and television programs do not use the phrase: “the politics […]

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Reinventing the Evil Empire

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more […]

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The Devil’s Hoof

By Uri Avnery – Israel  I was shocked when I read the headline in Haaretz. It quoted Sari Nusseibeh as saying "There is no Room for Two", meaning two states between the Mediterranean Sea and […]

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Boats Reach Gaza Despite Blockade

Two vessels carrying 46 international human rights activists have reached the Gaza Strip, despite Israel’s strict 14-month siege of the Palestinian territory. The end of the mission to symbolically break the siege came after Israel […]

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Sailing for Gaza Freedom

Human rights activists set sail from Cyprus on Friday, August 22, to the Gaza Strip to break the months-long Israeli blockade on the 1.6 million Palestinians in the poverty-stricken strip. "The goal of our voyage […]