1 day ago by themiddle

I was going to call this piece “Abbas Plays Poker” but then Khaled Abu Toameh wrote a piece in the J Post called Abbas’s Big Bluff in which he argues that Abbas has called for Palestinian elections now with the knowledge that Hamas won’t participate. Khaled doesn’t quite make the point that this is ...

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1 day ago by Clarity Correspondent

We have developed a fair dose of pessimism of late in relation to the potential for any progress on the Israel-Palestine situation. The Netanyahu-Lieberman partnership is not one designed for flexibility; it is a human embodiment of the Fortress Israel mentality. The unwillingness of Israel to compr ...

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2 days ago by Signs of the Times

When you read a news story saying that "the United Nations called on Israel to stop demolishing Palestinian homes and put an end to the policy of forced evictions in East Jerusalem, warning that there are 60,000 Palestinians threatened of becoming homeless," you cannot but wonder about the role of t ...

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2 days ago by noticeable

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3 days ago by Track-A-'Crat

My God. I don’t think that I’ve ever seen Hillary Clinton do a passable impression of a human expression or emotion. How about that one time… or that instance when… surely she did at… Hmmm. Nope, never seen her successfully pull it off. It’s like she realizes her own inability to empathize feel and ...

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3 days ago by nursheikha

Protest against house evictions, Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, 3/11/2009. Originally uploaded by activestills was really peeved when i watched this episode of dateline about jewish settlers searching high and law in east jerusalem, buying up and forcibly evicting palestinian residents from their ho ...

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4 days ago by Jameel @ The Muqata

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton to Al-Jazeera TV: East Jerusalem will be Israel's capital. Ooops. And in a new twist Tuesday, Clinton made what appeared to be an inadvertent slip of the tongue in a television interview with the al-Jazeera network, referring to the goal of "an Israeli capital ...

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4 days ago by Ali Yenidunya

On Tuesday, following the eviction of a Palestinian family from their home in East Jerusalem which sparked tension between the family and rioting settlers over the ownership of the house, the United Nations stepped in. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Israel to halt “provocative” actions in East ...

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5 days ago by Marinka Peschmann

Today’s statement from the UN’s Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon on Israel. Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory The Secretary-General is dismayed at continued Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem, including the ...

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5 days ago by Stan

U.S. Middle East policy has effectively come full-circle again, as it has done repeatedly for the past forty-plus years. Every blue moon we get a U.S. President who dares to challenge Israel on their ethnic cleansing — their drive for a full-fledged apartheid state, as demonstrated by continued Pale ...

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