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Who Gains from Anti-Islam Film?

By Jamal Kanj Zionist and right wing Christian evangelists exploit US freedom of speech by fuelling sedition and hate between two great religions. On the other hand, right wing religious elements are manipulating Muslims’ righteous […]

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Report: Abbas Intends to Quit

President Mahmoud Abbas has instructed officials to "look for a new president," a Palestinian official told Saudi newspaper al-Watan. Abbas reportedly made the announcement at a meeting of faction leaders in Ramallah. "You have 10 […]

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Sabra and Shatila

By Francis Oeser Ruinous walls define a simple street – a place for donkeys, the calls of walkers selling wares, a place banded by bars of sunshine and shadow. But all is changed. See a […]

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Hot Palestinian Summer

By Yacov Ben Efrat We can relax: the disturbances in the Occupied Territories appear to have subsided, and the would-be third Intifada may have skipped over 2012 as it did over 2011. Back then it […]

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Galahs in Canberra parrot Hasbara

By Vacy Vlazna ‘These matters do not in any way detract from our overall position – that we fiercely, unequivocally, strongly oppose BDS.’  — Bob Carr, Foreign Minister of Australia, 13 September 2012. On reading, Baroud’s […]

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Protest in Ramallah

By Uri Avnery Visiting Ramallah in the West Bank after an absence of several months, I was again amazed by the ongoing building activity. Everywhere new high-rise buildings are going up, and many of them […]

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O Sabra and Shatila

By Stephen Brackens-Brinkley (In memory of people killed in the Sabra and Shatila by Lebanese Christian Phalangists and by the Israeli government. This happened in September 16 to 18, 1982.) O Sabra and Shatila, I bear […]

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The Pope and the Palestinians

By Franklin Lamb – Shatila Refugee Camp, Lebanon The only time this observer recalls Yassir Arafat ever becoming frustrated with the late American journalist Janet Stevens, whom he adored as a daughter, was during a visit […]

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21st Century Robotic Wars

By Jamal Kanj On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a new ‘sanitized war’ is reshaping the future of America’s military industrial complex. The drones, or the new robotic war, is operated by […]

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Questions

By Deepak Tripathi The finger points everywhere.             At he who starts the fire,He who pours oil.Who stands quietly by,Who screams violently.Who condemns,Who applauds.The slanderer,The glorifier.O’ where is He?To put out the flames. – Deepak Tripathi […]