While most international media have focused on the aftermath of the July suicide bombings and the effects on Palestinian/Israeli negotiations, a damning report by the Palestinian Legislative Council has escaped the attention of
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On 25 August, Palestinian prisoner Imad Sabi negotiated a "release" with the Israeli Security Service (Shabak). Imad Sabi agreed to four years of exile in exchange for his release from continued administrative detention (detention
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RAMALLAH — Fighting has escalated in the last week in areas of southern Lebanon occupied by the Israeli army. Since August 20, Israel has launched four air strikes against forces fighting the occupation. This brings the number
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JERUSALEM — Head towards the Gaza coast, past the smiling billboards of Yasser Arafat, and you will soon find what would once have been considered a joke — Gaza's tourist area. Here you can sip fruit cocktails and watch the
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JERUSALEM — On July 30, two bombs ripped through a crowded marketplace in west Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu demanded that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat close down the organisational structures of
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The official ideology of Israel, Zionism, has always portrayed itself as a liberation movement for all Jews. But although Zionism claims to offer a home for all Jews, that home has never been offered equally. The question of Arab
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HEBRON — Tension was high as I entered the city centre. Someone warned me that there had been more "problems"; I soon saw what they meant. Ahead Palestinian youth clutched rocks, while the soldiers faced them with machine-guns
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JERUSALEM — Well-known political commentator Noam Chomsky spoke to a packed lecture theatre on June 7 at Bir Zeit University, near the Palestinian town of Ramallah. Chomsky has been a consistent critic of US policy in the Middle
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Through the south of Lebanon, you can see large sprawling buildings known as the "camps" which house Palestinian refugees. These areas have been bombed by the Israelis, Syrians and Lebanese, but they remain a focus for resistance
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Large demonstrations across the West Bank have protested against Israeli settlement and the continuing violation of Palestinian rights. More than 400 Palestinians have been injured by tear gas and rubber bullets in clashes with
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On February 26, the Israeli government announced the future construction of 2600 housing units between East Jerusalem and Bethlehem on Mount Abu Ghneim. These units will be built for Jewish settlers as part of the continuing
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Philip Mendes' writes in "Write on", GLW #261, "The Labour Zionist movement which ruled Israel from 1948 to 1977 strongly identified with traditional socialist objectives". The idea that the Zionist movement, at least until