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Back to homepageEthnic cleansing of Palestinians, or, democratic Israel at work 0
Post Views: 6 While we are still desperately concealing, denying and repressing our major ethnic cleansing of 1948 – over 600,000 refugees, some who fled for fear of the Israel Defense Forces and its predecessors, some who were expelled by
Read MoreHow Palestinian villagers resisted Israel’s apartheid wall 0
Post Views: 2 Harriet Sherwood Budrus is a documentary film about Palestinian villagers’ non-violent resistance against the route of Israel’s separation barrier, whose original route would cut them off from 300 acres and 3,000 olive trees.Watch the trailer here Today
Read MoreEight killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip 0
Post Views: 8 Civilians among victims, including three from the same family Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem A palestinian mourns a family member killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza. Israel claimed it had targeted militants. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters At
Read MorePalestine papers reveal MI6 drew up plan for crackdown on Hamas 0
Post Views: 62 Internment and replacement of imams among measures Ian Black and Seumas Milne Palestinian special guards march in front of President Mahmoud Abbas’ headquarters in the West Bank Photograph: Loay Abu Haykel/Reuters British intelligence helped draw up a
Read MoreBarack Obama lifts then crushes Palestinian peace hopes 0
Post Views: 3 Secret papers reveal Palestinian frustration at lack of decisions but Middle East envoy warns against blaming US president Ian Black and Seumas Milne Barack Obama (right) meets Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu last year. Palestinians were
Read MoreSecret papers reveal slow death of Middle East peace process 0
Post Views: 5 • Massive new leak lifts lid on negotiations • PLO offered up key settlements in East Jerusalem• Concessions made on refugees and Holy sites Seumas Milne and Ian Black, Middle East editor The Palestine papers reveal the
Read MorePalestine Papers 0
Post Views: 5 Now we know. Israel had a peace partnerThe classified documents show Palestinians willing to go to extreme lengths and Israel holding a firm line on any peace deal Jonathan Freedland Who will be most damaged by this
Read MoreWikileaks Cables on Israel’s Gaza Onslaught 0
Post Views: 4 A CounterPunch Special Investigation. US was Cheerleader for Massacre CounterPunch has accessed Wikileaks’ file of cables on Israel’s Gaza assault two years ago (Operation Cast Lead, December 27, 2008 through January 18, 2009). Though the cables often simply rehash
Read More‘EU diplomats step up opposition to east J’lem building’ 0
Post Views: 2 Consuls General in capital call to be present at demolitions, court proceedings, intervene in arrests; “Attempts to emphasize Jewish identity of city threatens to radicalize the conflict,” ‘Independent’ reports. The European Union stepped up its opposition to
Read MoreGazan youth issue manifesto to vent their anger with all sides in the conflict 0
Post Views: 12 An anonymous group of students has created a document to express their frustration born of Hamas’s violent crackdowns on ‘western decadence’, the destruction wreaked by Israel’s attacks and the political games played by Fatah and the UN
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