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Response to Richard Goldstone ‘Israel and the Apartheid Slander’

By Mutasem Awad and Hiyam Noir   November 20, 2011   Richard Goldstone’s op-ed published for New York Times and dated October 31 2011, with the offensively noticeable title: “Israeland the Apartheid Slander”, astounded us because of the fallacies, aimed at blurring the truth and to justify the policies pursued by the Israeli occupation for [...]

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Video: Brutal eviction of Palestinian family in Jaffa caught on tape

by Kate    Mondoweiss      October 6, 2011    JPost 6 Oct — An Israeli-Arab family from Jaffa said Thursday they plan to file a lawsuit against the police, after officers used what appears to be excessive force to evict them from a south Tel Aviv house they were squatting in on Tuesday. In an amateur [...]

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Middle East Empire: The Prequel (Book Review)

by Leon Hadar Leon Hadar is the author of Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East.   The American Conservative September 29, 2011   The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Jonathan Schneer, Random House, 464 pages   Good morningAmerica! It’s a new day in the Middle East as the Arab Spring—now the [...]

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Robert Fisk: A President who is helpless in the face of Middle East reality

Obama’s UN speech insists Israelis and Palestinians are equal parties to conflict   The Independent Friday, 23 September 2011   Today should be Mahmoud Abbas’s finest hour. Even The New York Times has discovered that “a grey man of grey suits and sensible shoes, may be slowly emerging from his shadow”.   But this is [...]

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Top media ethics expert: Times’ Ethan Bronner is in ‘very dicey ethical territory’

by Max Blumenthal   Mondoweiss on September 15, 2011   Yesterday I reported for the Columbia Journalism Review that New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner is on the speaker’s bureau of Lone Star Communications, an Israeli public relations firm that pitches him stories. Bronner has provided extensive coverage to several of the firm’s [...]

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Arab Sources: Bishara on Palestine’s UN bid

by Simone Daud   Mondoweiss on September 16, 2011   Azmi Bishara has emerged as the Arab world’s leading political analyst. A few years ago he anticipated thatTunisiawould be the first Arab dictatorship to face a democratic revolution. His nightly coverage of the Arab uprisings on al-Jazeera has not only been intelligent and accurate, it [...]

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Mabrouk! Israel to launch its first Arab satellite TV station

Pilots have also been shot for a current events program, a children’s show, and series for young people that will begin with a competition to choose young hosts for the shows.  By Gili Izikovich   Haaretz     Tue, September 13, 2011   The Hala TV group was granted a license yesterday to operate an Arabic-language cable [...]

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(Video) Noam Chomsky : Hegemonic Powers Show Extreme Contempt For Democracy

Chomsky: ‘As long they get the backing of dictators, it doesn’t matter to western governments what Arab populations think’ – video    The 19th century … 2001 … today. Noam Chomsky sees hegemonic powers showing extreme contempt for democracy – and acting in ways they know will increase terrorism   The Guardian  September 01, 2011 [...]

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Gideon Levy: The reason why the Egyptians hate us

The masses demonstrating against Israel now are the same masses who once welcomed the Israelis; the hatred has sparked, but it does not have to be this way. Haaretz    Mon, August 29, 2011   The Israeli flag that was taken down by a young Egyptian from the window of the Israeli Embassy inCairowas faded and [...]

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Nato unwelcome in Libya – rebels

- AFP    2011-08-22 18:44   Cairo-Libya’s rebel government envoy to the Cairo-based Arab League said Monday that his country will not allow Nato bases inLibyaafter Muammar Gaddafi’s ousting, the official MENA news agency said.   “Libyais an Arab and Islamic nation before Nato and after Nato,” he said, adding, “the Libyans revolted from the 1970s [...]

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Allister Sparks: New Palestinian move could prove a game-changer in their long conflict with Israel

Sparks is a veteran South African journalist and political analyst Business Day  South Africa  Published: 2011/08/17 07:10:15 AM   VOLATILE though international affairs may appear at the moment, they could become more so within a few weeks as major new developments unfold in theMiddle East.   First will be the election of a new government [...]

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Not the Left — Who Will Save Libya From Its Western Saviours?

By JEAN BRICMONT  and DIANA JOHNSTONE   Jean Bricmont is author of Humanitarian Imperialism.  He can be reached at Jean.Bricmont@uclouvain.be Diana Johnstone is author of Fools’ Crusade.  She can be reached at diana.josto@yahoo.fr   CounterPunch     August 16, 2011   Last March, a coalition of Western powers and Arab autocracies banded together to sponsor what was [...]

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