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Catastrophe at Rafah Crossing: More Than 35 Dead—and Counting

Mohammed Omer, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, September/October 2007 PERCHED ATOP A suitcase and…

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Israeli army orders confiscation of Palestinian land in West Bank

· Seizure would allow huge expansion of settlements · Move seen as rush to make…

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Beneath the Hideous Veneer of ‘Security’

Jennifer Loewenstein, CounterPunch, 23 september, 2007

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Brothers in Arms: The Triumph of U.S.-Israeli Policy in Palestine

Jennifer Loewenstein, The Progressive, June 26, 2007

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Bush badly botches Mideast conflict [the progressive view]

John Nichols, Capital Times, June 20, 2007 The tragedy of Washington’s narrow “debate” about the…

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Elliott Abram’s Uncivil War

Is the Bush administration violating the law to provoke a Palestinian civil war? Conflicts Forum,…

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Worse Than Apartheid

Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Dec 18, 2006

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The Israel Lobby

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, London Review of Books, 23 March 2006 For the past…

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Praying with Their Eyes Closed

Sara Roy, MIFTAH, August 20, 2005

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Goodbye to Gaza

But it is still Israel that can do most to improve the economic lot of…

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Palestine: the economy of despair

The West Bank city of Nablus is relatively calm at present. Anyone who can raise…

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Mustafa Barghouti: The liberation of the Israeli and Palestinian people

Israel must understand that the liberation of the Israeli people depends on the liberation of…

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Avi Shlaim: Withdrawal is a prelude to annexation

Avi Shlaim, The Guardian, 21 June 2005

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Israeli Extremists Lose, as a New Generation of Palestinians Wins

Mohammed Omer, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May/June 2005 THEY BREATHE the same air,…

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Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

11 June 2004 Friends, I have just returned from a trip to Lebanon and Syria…

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