Added on 16/10/2012
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DAWOUD ABU LEBDEH, CGNEWS: Its role is minimal compared to that envisaged in the Oslo Accords. Faced with a threat to its existence what should PA do?
Added on 13/10/2012
Mich Cafe
Activist , Ali Ferzat , America , Bashar al-Assad , Cartoonist , Civil society , Damascus , David Ignatius , Egypt , European parliament , France , Germany , Journalism , Lebanon , Literature , Palestinian Territories , Paris , Poet , President , Samar Yazbek , Syria , The Washington Post , United Kingdom , United States , vocal critic
MICH CAFE: One is a lawyer and human rights activist the other is a leading author but the bravery of both women has been acknowledged by a wider audience
Added on 10/10/2012
Mondoweiss
Alice Walker , Angela Davis , Diana Buttu , Ethan Heitner , Gaza , Israel , Obama administration , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Russell Tribunal on Palestine , Security Council , UN Security Council , United Nations , United States
MONDOWEISS: The Russell Tribunal on Palestine has concluded and issued its preliminary findings. It makes for very uncomfortable reading particularly for the U.S.
Added on 06/10/2012
Jonathan Cook
Barack Obama , Benjamin Netanyahu , Danny Ayalon , Egypt , General Assembly , Germany , Iraq , Israel , Israeli government , Mahmoud Abbas , Middle East , Morocco , Mossad , Netanyahu’s government , New York , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , President , Prime Minister , U.S. Congress , UN Security Council , United Nations , United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East , United States , Yemen , YouTube
JONATHAN COOK: A campaign initiated in 2009 now appears to be gathering strength namely equation of Palestinians with Jews who fled Arab countries.
Added on 03/10/2012
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Israel , Pakistan , Palestinian Territories , Skype , Tel Aviv University , United States
DAHLIA SCHIENDLIN, CGNEWS: It was the people rather than the politics that first attracted me to Pakistan. We have a lot in common.
Added on 02/10/2012
Mondoweiss
Abu Dhabi , Afghanistan , Arabian Gulf , Asia , Congo , Energy , Fifa World Cup , Gaza Strip , Imran Khan , India , Indonesia , Islamabad , Israel , New York city , Osama Bin Laden , Pakistan , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Ron Paul , South Asia , Taliban , United Kingdom , United States , West Asia
PAM BAILEY, MONDOWEISS: When I inform my friends that I’m heading to Waziristan to find out about the reality of drone attacks they’re rather concerned
Added on 27/09/2012
Richard Silverstein
Afghanistan , America , Bill Keller , Clarion Fund , Haaretz , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Libya , Media , Middle East , Middle East Opinions of America , Muslims , Newsweek , Nicholas Kristof , Pakistan , Palestinian Territories , Salman Rushdie , Sarajevo , Somalia , Yemen
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: We’re [Christians and Jews] above that sort of blood-letting. We solve our differences civilly through debate and the free exchange of ideas. As if…
Added on 20/09/2012
Mich Cafe
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MICH CAFE: The ‘Battle to Offend’ seems to be getting more intense by the day. More fuel will be thrown on the fire with the appearance of a U.S ad campaign
Added on 15/09/2012
mai abdul rahman
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And so the violence associated with a vile, hate filled movie escalates. Why can we not fight hate with wisdom and rationality?
MAI ABDUL RAHMAN: And so the violence associated with a vile, hate filled movie escalates. Why can we not fight hate with wisdom and rationality?
Added on 14/09/2012
Mondoweiss
America , Barack Obama , Benjamin Netanyahu , Bibi Netanyahu , Congress , David Remnick , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jerusalem , Joe Klein , Knesset , Middle East Opinions of America , Mitt Romney , NBC , Netanyahu government , Netanyahu’s government , Palestinian Territories , President , Prime Minister , Rabin , Shaul Mofaz , The New Yorker , United Nations , United States , US government , West Bank
PHLIP WEISS: The Israeli lobby is taking a pummelling at the moment as leading commentators stand up to confront it. Is this a real turning point?
Added on 05/09/2012
Mondoweiss
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JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN, MONDOWEISS: Both individuals wrote diaries about their experience of oppression. Only one, however, is globally celebrated.
Added on 30/08/2012
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Egypt , Europe , Foreign Affairs Committee , Gaza , Israel , Jerusalem , Kurdistan Workers’ Party , Middle East , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Prime Minister , Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Spain , Turkey , Turkish Parliament , United States
FAIK TUNAY, CGNEWS: Relations between Israel and Turkey have deteriorated over the past two years. There is one issue at its heart.
Added on 23/08/2012
mai abdul rahman
belief systems , Gaza , IDF , Israel , Jerusalem , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Social services , West Bank
MAI ABDUL RAHMAN: The lives of Palestinians and Israelis are intertwined and interconnected. The actions of one group inevitably impact the other.
Added on 22/08/2012
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NATALIA SIMANOVSKY: The visit by a Palestinian official was not deemed suitable to receive strong coverage only its condemnation by Hamas
Added on 08/08/2012
Jonathan Cook
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JONATHAN COOK: … Expropriations would become a staple of life over the next three decades as more than 70 per cent of the land belonging to Palestinians was nationalized
Added on 03/08/2012
Francis Matthew
America , Barack Obama , Benjamin Netanyahu , Brazil , China , Egypt , Foreign Policy , Gaza , George W. Bush , Hamas , Hizballah , India , Indonesia , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Lebanon , Libya , Middle East , Mitt Romney , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , President , Prime Minister , Saudi Arabia , South Africa , Syria , Tunisia , Turkey , United Nations , United States
FRANCIS MATTHEW: US Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is suggesting a dangerous return to a simplistic foreign policy in which foreigners are divided simply into friends and foes.
Added on 30/07/2012
Abu Muhammed
Africa , America , Arab Spring , Arabian Peninsula , Arabs , Congo , Gandhi , Gulf Arab , Gulf council , India , Indonesia , Kansas , Middle East , Oil wealth , Palestinian Territories , South Africa , Supreme Court , UAE , UN Court , United States
‘In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.’ Thurgood Marshall A recent article on the Al Jazeera News website by Sudha G. Tilak titled Whitening Cream: Fair deal for India’s Women? —took me back to the days growing up black in the US; years before the hay days of […]
Added on 30/07/2012
Juan Cole
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JUAN COLE: The trip of Republic Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to Israel is in bad taste for lots of reasons. Here are just 10 reasons as to why…
Added on 29/07/2012
Ramzy Baroud
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RAMZY BAROUD: There has been a flood of Palestinian refugees into Syria and they’re facing desperate times.
Added on 27/07/2012
Mondoweiss
European Union , Israel , Jimmy Carter , Netanyahu , Netanyahu’s government , Obama , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , President , Shaul Mofaz , The Guardian , The New York Times
ILENE COHEN, MONDOWEISS: Goodbye ‘Two State Solution’, Goodbye ‘Right of Return’, Goodbye Palestine. Dani Dayan spells out the real vision
