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Netanyahu Asked To Form New Israeli Government
By Donald Macintyre
www.countercurrents.org/macintyre210209.htm
Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish leader of Israel’s biggest right-wing party, Likud, was yesterday given six weeks to form a coalition government as he appealed for a “new approach” of unity to deal with the “great challenges” from Iran’s nuclear programme and the global recession

Obama Was Unconvinced By Bibi’s Desire For Peace
By Robert Fisk
www.countercurrents.org/fisk210209.htm
Mr Obama, who figured out the Middle East pretty quickly, apparently found Bibi arrogant and unconvincing in his professed desire for peace with the Palestinians. What Mr Netanyahu thought of Mr Obama is not known, but he could scarcely have tried to hide his election line: security for Israel, but no Palestinian state

Global Boycott Movement Marks Its Successes
By Jeff Handmaker
www.countercurrents.org/handmaker210209.htm
Responding to the many calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, solidarity movements around the world have marked many successes. It is important for human rights advocates to build on this momentum and seize the opportunity to do what is within their power to try and hold Israel accountable for its abuses of human rights and other international laws

A New Afghanistan Nightmare
By Ramzy Baroud
www.countercurrents.org/baroud210209.htm
Former president Bush and his entourage of allies failed to turn Afghanistan into a US-styled democracy, easily exploitable for strategic and economic use. By pressing a military solution in Afghanistan, Obama is not only summoning another failed US imperial experiment – as that in Iraq – but insists on adding his country’s name to those of Britain and Russia, who had better chances of success, but were squarely defeated

Iraqi Doctors In Hiding Treat As They Can
By Dahr Jamail
www.countercurrents.org/jamail210209.htm
Seventy percent of Iraq’s doctors are reported to have fled the war-torn country in the face of death threats and kidnappings. Those who remain live in fear, often in conditions close to house arrest

Do Americans Get “The Truth”?
By Timothy V. Gatto
www.countercurrents.org/gatto210109.htm
If a casual reader were to read all of the “mainstream media” reports on the Israeli/Palestinian and the Israel/Iranian events, one could conceivably come away with the mindset that Israel is a country that just wants to survive and is a “good and forthright ally of America”. In reality, this is nothing like the truth. The truth is what’s behind the motivations of our “good friend and ally, Israel”

Babri Mosque Demolition: Why On December 6?
By Ashok Yadav
www.countercurrents.org/yadav210209.htm
Was it a mere coincidence that the Babri mosque was demolished on December 6? What was so exceptional about this particular date that it overrode all other options in the 366 days of that year (1992 being a leap year)? A scrutiny of this question, I posit, would unveil the true character of Hindu communalism or Hindutva

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