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UK to expel Israeli diplomat over British passport abuse

Expulsion follows use of 12 fake passports by suspected Mossad agents during killing of Hamas leader in Dubai Julian Borger, Mark Tran and Rajeev Syal guardian.co.uk – 23 March 2010 Britain is to expel an Israeli diplomat over the use of forged UK passports by the killers of a senior Hamas official in January. The [...]

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Britain’s FM hails Iraq war

Middle East Online  - 8 March 2010 Miliband: invading Iraq won ‘respect’ of Mideast states, UK mustn’t shy away from new wars. LONDON – Britain’s decision to back the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 earned it “respect” among states in the Middle East and it must not be scared of similar “engagement” in the future, [...]

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Engaging Islamists

One of the most self-defeating features of western policy in the post-9/11 world has been the way in which it has lumped together all forms of Islamic revivalism and nationalism as worthy targets of the misconceived global war on terror, egged on by the purblind and Islamophobe solipsists of the “they-hate-us-for-our-freedoms” industry.

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John Pilger: Sri Lanka: Distant Voices, Desperate Lives

ZNet    May, 14 2009   In the early 1960s, it was the Irish of Derry who would phone late at night, speaking in a single breath, spilling out stories of discrimination and injustice. Who listened to their truth until the violence began? Bengalis from what was then East Pakistan did much the same. Their urgent [...]

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