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Znet Article Ess: Why Hamas Won

Znet Article, January, 31 2006 Kristen Ess
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First of all the Israelis withdrew from the center of the Gaza Strip. This was a move to use it as a trade to keep the West Bank, and also to protect Jewish settlers from resistance activities and make it easier for the Israelis to attack by air w...

Znet Article Hanieh: The End of a Political Fiction?

Znet Article, January, 31 2006 Adam Hanieh
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Hamas’ landslide victory in the January 25 elections for the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is an unprecedented turning point for politics in both Palestine and the broader Middle East. Arguably for the first time since the...

Znet Article Levy: Good News About the Hamas Victory

Znet Article, January, 30 2006 Gideon Levy
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The good news from the occupied territories is that Hamas won the elections. As opposed to what the chorus of national intimidation--speaking in one voice from Benjamin Netanyahu to Ami Ayalon--is saying, the political change in Palestine could be...

Znet Article Solo: Poverty, consumerism and anti-imperialism

Znet Article, January, 29 2006 Toni Solo
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Several responses are standard to criticism of ideologically bankrupt and morally schizophrenic initiatives like the UK's Make Poverty History campaign. One is to rail at the impudence of calling into question the campaign organizers sincerity and...

Znet Article Ash: Bravo Abbas! Bravo Hamas!

Znet Article, January, 28 2006 Gabriel Ash
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Elections results in the Occupied Territories show that Fatah has lost its majority in the Palestinian parliament by a stunningly large margin. This is a transformational event with lasting geopolitical importance, for Hamas and Fatah, for Palesti...

Znet Article Sheehan: A New World is Possible

Znet Article, January, 26 2006 Cindy Sheehan
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And necessary! This is the theme for the World Social Forum that I (and tens of thousands of people from all over the world) am attending in Caracas this week. I know the idea of a world where everyone lives in peace and with justice is very "subv...

Znet Article Qumsiyeh: US public interest and the Palestinian elections

Znet Article, January, 25 2006 Mazin Qumsiyeh
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The Palestinian elections are just one small move in the bigger game in the Middle East with deadly consequences that go beyond the people in this troubled part of the world. The majority of Palestinians are ironically excluded from this vote: the...

Znet Article Baroud: Diplomacy as a Real Option

Znet Article, January, 25 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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Newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the new face of evil, US officials and media want us to believe. The dialectics that yielded such a conclusion have been offered in abundance within thousands of news broadcasts, commentaries...

Znet Article Chomsky: Irish Times Interview

Znet Article, January, 24 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Q First of all, I wanted to clear something up. I understand that some remarks you made about Bertie Ahern and “shoe shining ” may have been reported inaccurately. A The Press Association story on December 26th said that on his wa...

Znet Article Avnery: Have Pity on a Poor Orphan!

Znet Article, January, 24 2006 Uri Avnery
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IT WAS a colorful day in Bil'in. Political flags of many colors were fluttering in the brisk breeze, the vivid election posters and the colorful graffiti on the walls adding their bit. It was the biggest demonstration in the beleaguered village fo...

Znet Article Loewenstein: Paying the Price for a Crazy War

Znet Article, January, 23 2006 Antony Loewenstein
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2005 will be remembered as the year citizens across the world started to awaken to the rules of the game in the “war on terror”. Extraordinary rendition, US supported and administered torture, unauthorised spying on citizens, priva...

Znet Article Edalat: Iran, War, and Sanctions

Znet Article, January, 23 2006 Abbas Edalat
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UK based professor Abbas Edalat is a founding member of the newly formed Campaign against Sanctions and Intervention in Iran (CASMII). He recently traveled to the US and spoke at MIT and San Francisco regarding the coming hostilities against Iran....

Znet Article Kanazi: Elections in Israel and Palestine

Znet Article, January, 16 2006 Remi Kanazi
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Given the recent political death of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, many in Israel and the Occupied Territories are wondering who will the former premier’s spot. Likewise, Palestinians and Israelis are closely watching to see who will...

Znet Article Gregory: Tortured Geography

Znet Article, January, 16 2006 Derek Gregory
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 So President Bush signs the McCain amendment outlawing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners in US custody and then adds a ‘signing statement’ to say that he will continue to do as he likes.  What a surprise!  Itâ&#...

Znet Article Bricmont: Humanitarian Imperialism

Znet Article, January, 11 2006 Jean Bricmont
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In his new book, Humanitarian Imperialism, Jean Bricmont denounces the use of the human rights pretext to justify attacks against countries in the South. He is a pacifist and a committed intellectual. How is it that a professor of theoretical phy...

Znet Article Baroud: Gaza's Turmoil in Context

Znet Article, January, 11 2006 Ramzy Baroud
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The most recent kidnappings in the Gaza Strip are a disheartening testimony to how factionalism, corruption and lack of discipline can scar a national struggle that was meant to exemplify precisely the opposite. Although attempts to hijack and re...

Znet Article Avnery: Three Fingers, No Fist

Znet Article, January, 10 2006 Uri Avnery
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Three Fingers, No Fist

Znet Article Edwards: Bambi Journalism

Znet Article, January, 09 2006 David Edwards
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Bambi Journalism

Znet Article Elam: The Myth of Sharon's political change

Znet Article, January, 09 2006 Shraga Elam
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The need for fairy tales is still very strong in our so-called enlightened society, and Sharon has just the stuff needed for the creation of such myths. The dominant legend at the moment is that one of the worst war criminals of the 20th. Century ...

Znet Article Qumsiyeh: Israel & Palestine 2006

Znet Article, January, 05 2006 Mazin Qumsiyeh
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More than a year ago many in the US media focused on how the passing of an ailing Arafat would be the key to unlock the deadlocked peace process (we now know this to be untrue or was vastly exaggerated). There was hardly any US coverage of the nat...

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