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U.S. Iranian Policy

By Ron Forthofer The U.S. has long been concerned about Iran’s legal enrichment of uranium for civilian use based on the fear that the enrichment could lead to an Iranian nuclear weapons program. Recently released […]

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A Tweet Costs CNN Employee Her Job

CNN has fired its senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs after she published a Twitter message praising the late Lebanese Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. Octavia Nasr has been told to leave the […]

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PA Tepid on Obama’s Direct Talks Call

The Palestinian Authority (PA) says further progress in indirect negotiations is needed before direct peace talks with the Israelis could start. Acting PA chief Mahmoud Abbas "insists on the necessity of progress in indirect negotiations […]

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Human Rights Volunteers Needed in Palestine

By International Women’s Peace Service – Palestine Since 2002, the International Women’s Peace Service in Palestine (IWPS-Palestine) has been documenting and non-violently intervening in human rights abuses carried out by the Israeli military and Israeli […]

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Judaizing Jerusalem

By Stephen Lendman The Middle East Monitor (MEM) covers significant regional issues and events through its weekly newspaper and reports like Samira Quraishy’s September 2009 Briefing Paper titled, ‘The Judaization of Jerusalem,’ discussing Israel’s "escalating […]

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Israel Plans 2700 New Settlements

Israeli settlement councils plan to build 2700 new settlements in the West Bank immediately after the existing settlement freeze on September 27. The plans await approval by Israeli Housing Ministry and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud […]

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Feyadh under Fire over Barak Meeting

Gaza’s resistance movements have slammed a meeting between the Palestinian Authority’s caretaker Prime Minister Salam Feyadh and the Israeli defense minister. The meeting between Feyadh and Israel’s Ehud Barak was held in al-Quds (Jerusalem) on […]

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Trickle into Gaza Just PR Stunt

Israel has decided to lift restrictions on the entry of a trickle of consumer goods into Gaza, but the move appears to be just a publicity stunt, observers say. Israel’s international reputation is still in […]

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Bibi Back at the White House

By Jeff Gates With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting the White House July 6th, it’s time to recall how Tel Aviv deceived Washington throughout the entirety of the U.S.-Israeli relationship. U.S. military leaders will be […]

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Fear or Apathy, We Are All To Blame

By Tammy Obeidallah Over the years, I have lambasted the U.S. government, particularly in the area of foreign policy. Wars, copious amounts of taxpayer dollars in aid to an apartheid state, inherent racism and hypocrisy […]

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Letters from Palestine – Book Review

By Jim Miles Letters from Palestine – Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the power of Nonviolence. Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah. Wheatmark, Tucson, AZ, USA. 2010. Kenneth Ring’s writing on Palestine […]

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Egypt Destroys 400 Gaza Tunnels

Egypt has destroyed hundreds of Palestinian tunnels across its border with the Gaza Strip as part of the joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the enclave. Egyptian authorities on Sunday announced that they have destroyed some 400 […]

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Gaza Children at Grave Malnutrition Risk

Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip is associated with long-term damage to Palestinians’ health, placing their children at risk of stunted growth or malnutrition. Latest figures have revealed that more than 1,400 individuals were killed […]

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Abbas: No Progress in Indirect Talks

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has denied a breakthrough in indirect negotiations with Israel, saying the US-brokered talks have been ineffective so far. "In fact there is no progress in negotiations, and the situation is still […]

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Targeting Israel’s Legitimacy

By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria While Kader Asmal’s opinion piece ‘World must deny legitimacy to Israel’ [South Africa’s Mail & Guardian, June 25] was welcomed as a breathtakingly courageous call for action against the Zionist […]

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Time to Muzzle Israel

By Gulamhusein A. Abba The bloody and dastardly attack, by Israeli forces, in international waters, under cover of darkness, on a peaceful and unarmed flotilla, carrying nothing but humanitarian aid to a besieged people experiencing […]

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Netanyahu Angers Shalit Supporters

Tens of thousands of Israelis have protested against Tel Aviv’s refusal to accept a deal to swap captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for imprisoned Hamas officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised public anger after […]

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A Broomstick Can Shoot

By Uri Avnery – Israel A victory is a victory. A big victory is better than a small one, but a small victory is better than a defeat. This week we won. Immediately after the […]