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  • The Real Mossad Vs Spielberg’s Mossad

    Prabir Purkayastha Newsclick 23 Feb 2010

    The Dubai assassination of a senior Hamas figure has created a diplomatic embarrassment for...

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  • Laughter in Dark Times

    Githa Hariharan, The Telegraph, 14 February 2010

    Suad Amiry, a Palestinian architect, writer and activist, was in India recently to launch the English edition of her book, Menopausal Palestine: Women at the Edge...

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  • The Gaza Freedom March in Cairo

    Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, 3 January 2010

    The inhuman blockade of Gaza continues. After killing 1400 Palestinians and reducing Gaza’s much of Gaza’s infrastructure to rubble in a brutal and one-sided “war”...

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  • For Israel an Inconvenient Truth

    Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick

    On 22nd of this month, while returning from Norway, Mohammad Othman, a human right activist, was arrested by Israeli authorities at the Allenby Bridge Crossing -- the Jordan-...

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  • BDS Movement Gains Major Victories

    Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick

    The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) call against Israel and its continued occupation of Palestinian lands has won some major victories in the last few weeks. Veolia, the French...

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  • Israeli Police Shutdown Palfest – twice

    Pratik Purkayastha

    On May 28, armed Israeli police shut down a Palestinian theatre in East Jerusalem, forcing foreign writers taking part in the closing of Palfest – an international Literature festival to...

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Web News

  • Life in the Gazan "Buffer Zone"

    Pam Rasmussen, truthout, 06 March 2010

    When I wrote last, I was still in Cairo, beginning to lose hope. However, shortly after, a friend at the UN Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) was miraculously able to get me...

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  • Palestinian Women Become Breadwinners Under Occupation

    Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 5 March 2010

    Ramallah occupied West Bank (IPS) - Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, with its ubiquitous closures, checkpoints, military raids...

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  • Gaza Police Forces and their Bereaved Families Rebuild One Year on

    Electronic Intifada, Rami Almeghari, 4 March 2010

    Rami Abu al-Sheikh's parents and siblings still remember how caring and tender their son was before he was killed during Israel's invasion of Gaza...

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  • Pressure Continues on Veolia and Alstom to Halt Light Rail Project

    Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 5 February 2010

    French transport giants Veolia and Alstom are involved in the construction and running of a light rail line which connects West Jerusalem to several...

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  • For Israel, A Reckoning

    John Pilger, John Pilger's ZSpace Page / ZSpace

    The farce of the climate change summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an...

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  • Ehud Barak: make Peace with Palestinians or Face Apartheid

    Rory McCarthy Herzliya, The Guardian., 3 February 2010

    Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister, last night delivered an unusually blunt ­warning to his country that a failure to make peace with the Palestinians would leave either a state with no...

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