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Richard Forer – Cutting Through the Confusion About Israel/Palestine (Must Read)

In the spring of 2009, I was a member of a group that put up a billboard criticizing Israel's lethal use of force during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.

Cutting through the confusion about Israel/Palestine

Richard Forer, a former member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), exposes the deceitful and dishonest foundations on which support for Israel is built.

Israel?s ?friends? still shamelessly swinging from chandeliers at Westminster

We must not forget what Hamas, which controls Gaza, stands for: it is intent on violence, smuggles arms, colludes with other rogue states and thumbs its nose at the international

Mahmoud Abbas and Egypt want Israel’s Gaza blockade to stay

THE Palestinian Authority and Egypt oppose lifting Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip but both call for easing the overland flow of goods to Gaza's 1.5 million residents.

“Mad dog” diplomacy: a cornered Israel is baring its teeth

Jonathan Cook argues that Israel is responding to growing domestic scrutiny of its human rights abuses and increasing international isolation, and to the erosion of its deterrence, by introducing new

Sea blockade of Gaza was “temporary” – 15 years ago

Stuart Littlewood views a little-mentioned blockade of Gaza: an interim, five-year agreement signed by the Palestinian Authority in 1995 – probably under duress – but still in force, allowing the

Sheikh Al-Azhar: Visiting J’lem now confers legitimacy on the occupation state

Sheikh Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayeb reiterated his rejection to visit occupied Jerusalem at the present time and called on all Muslims not to visit it through Israeli visas, saying such an

Tahboub: The Palestinians inherited calamities from the logic of settlement

Dr. Dima Tahboub, a noted Palestinian political writer, stated Saturday that the logic of power used today by liberal or extremist Israeli politicians alike is the same one inherited from

Israel admits use of Shin Bet to watch international activist

West Bank: Israel has exposed the extent of its crackdown on resistance in an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court on April 29, claiming that the Shin Bet intelligence agency

HAMAS Should Call for Gaza Palestinian Nation-State Now

HAMAS now has its greatest opportunity to advance the cause of Palestinian self-determination by shifting the centerpiece of its strategy to establishing a sovereign Palestinian nation-state in the Gaza Strip.