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The Phantom Peace

By Sonja Karkar – Melbourne The end of Ehud Olmert’s Israeli Prime Ministership should see the likely new leader Tzipi Livni continue peace talks with the Palestinian Authority. She will have a difficult time. The […]

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Will EU Be a More Just Mediator?

By Ramzy Baroud Europe has showed greater willingness in recent months to play a larger part in the Middle East’s most protracted conflict, that of Israel and Palestine. But willingness doesn’t necessarily indicate readiness. For […]

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Getting Drunk on Weapons

By Nadia W. Awad Israel has just come back from its latest spending spree. By the standards of your average shopper, its shopping list was quite boring, with only one item on it: weapons. What […]

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Separated and Still Unequal

By Joharah Baker Following the American Civil War, the "separate but equal" laws were established in the United States, which basically stipulated that the blacks, finally emancipated, would be ‘equal’ citizens of the US but […]

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Iraq: An Injury to One

By Hussein Al-alak – UK We are often told, that the British presence in Iraq is to help bring about ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ to assist the fundamentalist Iranian aligned ‘Iraqi government’ bring about ‘stability’ but these […]

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Mutant Seeds for Mesopotamia

By Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D. One would think that Iraqi farmers, now prospering under ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ would be able to plant the seeds of their choosing, but that choice, under little-known Order 81, would be […]

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Ishkharlo

By Hatim Kanaaneh – Acre I just finished reading the news about riots and clashes between Arabs and Jews in Acre in Haaretz, the one Israeli paper that still attempts a modicum of balance in […]

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Listening to Sarah

By James Zogby Media commentators were breathless in anticipation of the vice presidential debate between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin. Given Palin’s repeated gaffes in television interviews, there was an expectation that she […]