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Znet Article Engler: No Activism?

Znet Article, February, 27 2006 Yves Engler
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Sometimes, activism can seem like a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. Every activist has heard people say: “Nothing ever changes. Things are the way they are and that’s how it is and always will be. All your complaining an...

Znet Article Levy: As the Hamas Team Laughs

Znet Article, February, 22 2006 Gideon Levy
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The Hamas team had not laughed so much in a long time. The team, headed by the prime minister's advisor Dov Weissglas and including the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, the director of the Shin Bet and senior generals and officials, convened ...

Znet Article Baroud: Cartoon Awakening

Znet Article, February, 22 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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Much has been said and done in response to the deliberately offensive anti-Muslim cartoons published late last year by a conservative Danish newspaper, and profusely printed in many Europeans and non-European media, including South Africa, Jordan ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Korea and International Affairs

Znet Article, February, 22 2006 Noam Chomsky
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SUN WOO LEE: How is your health? NOAM CHOMSKY: I am fine, as you can see. SUN WOO LEE: Is there any recent issue of interest related to Korea which you have been following? NOAM CHOMSKY: Korea is playing a very significant role in world affa...

Znet Article Gordon: The Unholy Alliance Strikes Back

Znet Article, February, 20 2006 Neve Gordon
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It was a beautiful winter day. I was among approximately 80 Israeli activists who set out to plant trees in the South Hebron region, home to hundreds of Palestinian cave-dwellers. The desert air was chilly, the land moist after the rains, and the ...

Znet Article Wearing: Are Muslims from Mars and Europeans from Venus?

Znet Article, February, 20 2006 David Wearing
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The row over a set of cartoons published in a Danish newspaper that mocked the Muslim prophet Muhammad, and their republication elsewhere in the European press, has raised some interesting questions; albeit not the ones that have been discussed in...

Znet Article Podur: A Dishonest Case for a Coup

Znet Article, February, 16 2006 Justin Podur
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I was convinced, reluctantly, into replying to Deibert.

Znet Article Pappe: Occupation Hazard

Znet Article, February, 13 2006 Ilan Pappe
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Why is the history of modern Palestine such a matter of debate? Why is it still regarded as a complex, indeed obscure, chapter in contemporary history that cannot be easily deciphered? Any abecedarian student of its past who comes to it with clean...

Znet Article Safty: Manipulating the Evidence to Start a War

Znet Article, February, 12 2006 Adel Safty
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Last November, the US Senate Intelligence Committee was pressured by the Democrats to commence the long-delayed investigation of whether the Bush administration had deliberatel...

Znet Article Surya: Saying Namaste to President Bush

Znet Article, February, 07 2006 Radha Surya
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On January 30, 2006, the results of an expansion and reshuffle of the Union Cabinet sent waves of shock through some sections of the Indian public.  The Cabinet reshuffle in the nation's capital came in the wake of a week that had been rendered tu...

Znet Article Gordon: Why Hamas Won and What it Means

Znet Article, February, 07 2006 Neve Gordon
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 Although it is still unclear what the future holds for Israelis and Palestinians, a few things can be said about the processes that enabled Hamas to win a landslide victory in the January 25 democratic elections and how the organization’s...

Znet Article Walia: The Row over the Danish Cartoons

Znet Article, February, 06 2006 Harsha Walia
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From the burning of its flag to a boycott of its brands of butter and cookies, Denmark is feeling global outrage over newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The Danish paper Jyllands-Posten first published the cartoons on Sept. 30, 2005. The...

Znet Article Barghouti: Secular Arabs Detest Hypocrisy Too

Znet Article, February, 06 2006 Omar Barghouti
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As a rule, I hate to generalize, but I’ll make an exception this time. It seems westerners simply do not get it. Editorials all over Europe have bellowed in unison to defend the right of publishing anti-Islamic cartoons as an embodiment of...

Znet Article Fatah: What Would the Prophet Have Done?

Znet Article, February, 05 2006 Tarek Fatah
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/Keep to forgiveness (O Mohammed), and enjoin kindness, and turn away from the ignorant. /- The Koran, Chapter 7, Verse 199 During his lifetime, Prophet Mohammed endured insults and ridicule on a daily basis. His opponents mocked his message and ...

Znet Article Baroud: Punishing Denmark

Znet Article, February, 05 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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Only an irresponsible and intellectually inept individual would sketch such insulting images as those depicting Prophet Mohamed by a cartoonist in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper. And no self-respecting newspaper would allow itself to run suc...

Znet Article Haddad: A Parliament of Prisoners

Znet Article, February, 05 2006 Toufic Haddad
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Most attention surrounding the 25 January 2006 election has focused upon the sweeping victory of Hamas at the polls, and with good reason. But there are other aspects to this year’s election that will also leave permanent impressions upon ...

Znet Article Sommers: 1984 Redux

Znet Article, February, 04 2006 Jeff Sommers
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Using American veterans as props, on November 11, 2005 President George Bush delivered a speech designed to justify his foreign policy failures since 9/11. Throughout his talk he intoned his audience to recognize the goodness of American foreign p...

Znet Article Hussain: Democracy and violence

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Faheem Hussain
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Don’t get me wrong. I am not advocating violence as such. But when I heard on the news and read in the newspapers about Jack Straw, Condoleeza Rice, Kofi Annan and others lecturing Hamas on the incompatibility of democracy and violence it ...

Znet Article Fisk: Deja Vu

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Robert Fisk
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If ariel Sharon had not been in a deep coma, he would have jumped out of his bed for joy. The Hamas victory fulfils his most ardent hopes. For a whole year now, he did everything possible to undermine Mahmoud Abbas. His logic was quite obvious: ...

Znet Article Fisk: The problem with democracy

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Robert Fisk
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Saturday 28 January 2006 And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power. Oh no, not more democracy again! Didn't we award this to those Algerians on 1990? And didn't they reward us with that nice gift of an Is...

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