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Hamas and Fatah: Why the two groups are failing By Jonathan Cook
The Palestinian national movement, which has led the decades-long struggle against Israel’s takeover of the Palestinians’ homeland, has reached the lowest ebb in its history, according to analysts. But as Palestinians mark this week the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the “Catastrophe” that followed the dispossession of their homeland and the creation of Israel in… Continue reading
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Did Britain Try Blackmail to Cripple Palestinians’ UN Bid? By Stuart Littlewood
Ugly rumours are flying that the British government twisted the arm of President Abbas and told him the UK would only support Palestine’s modest upgrade to ‘observer state’ at the UN (to be decided tomorrow, Thursday) if he pledged not to pursue Israeli war criminals through the International Criminal Court. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 31 October 2012: Israeli soldier acquitted of killing a child with a shot to the head
31 October 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Report: “Soldiers Kidnapped 292 Palestinians In October”IMEMC – The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies and Human Rights reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped in October 292 Palestinians in different parts of the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, adding that among the kidnapped are 26 children. … Continue reading
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ICH 19 September 2012: ‘If I Were a Fanatic I’d Let Off Nuclear Bomb in Chicago’: Romney
19 September 2012 — Information Clearing House ‘If I Were a Fanatic I’d Let Off Nuclear Bomb in Chicago’: Romney Video Romney brands Iran ‘crazy people’ in new secretly filmed outburst. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32487.htm Continue reading
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YOU CAN’T GET THERE FROM HERE: THE NEED FOR “COLLAPSE WITH AGENCY” IN PALESTINE By Jeff Halper
Even as I write this, the bulldozers have been busy throughout that one indivisible country known by the bifurcated term Israel/Palestine. Palestinian homes, community centers, livestock pens and other “structures” (as the Israel authorities dispassionately call them) have been demolished in the Old City, Silwan and various parts of “Area C” in the West Bank,… Continue reading
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EI: Palestinian heritage vandalized | Thomas Friedman | Ameer Makhoul on prisoner swap | And more …
7 November 2011 — UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA LATEST OPINION AND FEATURES FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA Israel’s vandalism of Palestinian heritage By Abe Hayeem, 7 November 2011Amongst the fallout of Palestine’s admission as a member state, Israel’s warning that it “will now reconsider its cooperation with UNESCO” is the biggest irony. http://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-vandalism-palestinian-heritage/10564 Continue reading
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Sami Jamil Jadallah – The Palestine Papers; time to bury the PLO and PA
28 January, 2011 — Palestine Think Tank For the past few days I have been spending much of my time reading the released documents on Aljazeera (www.transparency.aljazeera.net) and the Guardian of Manchester, watching Aljazeera and reading other publications. One thing for sure the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah is in a panic, caught with its pants Continue reading
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STUDENTS OCCUPY PALESTINIAN EMBASSY IN LONDON
We urge all Palestinians at this critical moment to join our call for representation, and to take up our historic responsibility in the struggle for liberation, only on the basis of popular sovereignty. Continue reading
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Papers reveal how Palestinian leaders gave up fight over refugees By Ian Black and Seumas Milne
Palestinian negotiators privately agreed that only 10, 000 refugees and their families, out of a total refugee population exceeding 5 million, could return to Israel as part of a peace settlement, leaked confidential documents reveal. PLO leaders also accepted Israel’s demand to define itself as an explicitly Jewish state, in sharp contrast to their public… Continue reading
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The Palestine Papers Pt3
Al Jazeera obtained more than 1,600 internal documents from a decade of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations Continue reading
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The Palestine Papers Pt 1
Al Jazeera obtained more than 1,600 internal documents from a decade of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations Continue reading
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The Palestine papers By Matthew Weaver
Mustafa Barghouti, an independent member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said the papers showed that the Israeli don’t want a two-state solution despite their support for it in public. He gave his reaction to my colleague Harriet Sherwood. Continue reading
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Arafat Assassination Allegations: The Plot Thickens By TOUFIC HADDAD
Qaddoumi heads the PLO politburo and Fateh’s Central Committee. Last week he released a document that implicated current PA president Abu Mazen and his henchman Mohammed Dahlan in Israeli intentions to poison former PA president Yasser Arafat. The damning allegations were a frontal attack on the legitimacy of Abu Mazen and Dahlan, who remains a… Continue reading
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