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Znet Article Pilger: Fallujah, The Us Elections And 9/11: A Matter Of

Znet Article, November, 12 2004 John Pilger
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Edward S Herman's landmark essay, "The Banality of Evil", has never seemed more apposite. "Doing terrible things in an organized and systematic way rests on 'normalization'," wrote Herman. "There is usually a division of labor in doing and rationa...

Znet Article Hass: Still The Occupation

Znet Article, September, 23 2004 Amira Hass
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The screaming and shouting by opponents of disengagement and the settlement lobby is creating an image of the prime minister being a man of the political center. Their threats and accusations are painting him with the colors of a persecuted peacem...

Znet Article Zunes: US Christian Right's Grip on Middle East Policy

Znet Article, July, 14 2004 Stephen Zunes
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In recent years, a politicized and right-wing Protestant fundamentalist movement has emerged as a major factor in US support for the policies of the rightist Likud government in Israel. To understand this influence, it is important to recognize th...

Znet Article Avnery: The Nightmare Comes True

Znet Article, June, 15 2004 Uri Avnery
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I thought it was terrible. I was wrong. It is far, far worse! - These words sum up my feelings at that moment. I was standing on a hill overlooking the infamous Kalandia checkpoint. Below me was a narrow road, packed with Palestinians in the bla...

Znet Article Gordon: Making More Refugees

Znet Article, June, 13 2004 Neve Gordon
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JERUSALEM: The bulldozers have been working around the clock building the separation barrier, and it is now clear that the end is at hand. The residents' expulsion is imminent; they will soon be forced to move from their homes and ancestral land. ...

Znet Article Epitropoulos: Anti-Americanism and Americanization in Greece

Znet Article, June, 13 2004 Mike Epitropoulos
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Greece has long been viewed as "the black sheep" of Europe for its audacity to challenge and to criticize regional and global powers, like the United States. Firebrand criticism of US policy has been a trademark from national leaders, like the lat...

Znet Article Chomsky: The Reagan Era

Znet Article, June, 11 2004 Noam Chomsky
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With regard to the political system, the Reagan era represents a significant advance in capitalist democracy. For eight years, the U.S. government functioned vir...

Znet Article Avnery: The Gaza Disengagement Sham

Znet Article, June, 08 2004 Uri Avnery
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Perhaps Abe Lincoln was right that you can't fool all the people all the time, but a lot of people can surely be fooled for a long, long time. Just look at Ariel Sharon. From the start, the "Disengagement Plan" was an exercise in deceit. But the ...

Znet Article Chomsky: Doctrines And Visions: Who Is To Run The World, And How?

Znet Article, June, 07 2004 Noam Chomsky
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We have just passed the first anniversary of the President's declaration of victory in Iraq. I won't speak about what is happening on the ground. There is more than enough information about that, and we can draw our own conclusions. I will just me...

Znet Article Hass: Gazans Pile Up Their Belongings And Flee

Znet Article, May, 18 2004 Amira Hass
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Rafah - The streets of Rafah were filled yesterday evening with horse-drawn carts, trucks and pick-ups, all laden to the brim with any and every item that the town's residents could remove from their homes - mattresses, water tanks taken down from...

Znet Article Fisk: Criticize Israel?

Znet Article, April, 26 2004 Robert Fisk
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Behold Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, would-be graduation commencement speaker at Emory University in the United States. She has made a big mistake. She dared to criticise Israel. She sugg...

Znet Article Chomsky: A Wall as a Weapon

Znet Article, February, 23 2004 Noam Chomsky
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It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. Careful scrutiny is always in order. Israel's so-called security fence, which is the subject of ...

Znet Article Levy: We Are All Soldiers at Checkpoints

Znet Article, January, 11 2004 Gideon Levy
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The terminology used to be routine and clear: Whenever a unit of the Israel Defense Forces completed a mission - be it the aerial bombing of refugee camps in Lebanon, shelling terrorist headquarters in Syria or attacking missile sites in Egypt - t...

Znet Article Ronel: I return my rank to you

Znet Article, January, 09 2004 Eitan Ronel
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January 4, 2004 To the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Moshe Ya'alon: On Israel's 51st Independence Day, on Ammunition Hill, I received from you the rank of a Lieutenant Colonel. I was discharged from active reserve duty in the IDF after 31...

Znet Article Levy: The Price of Ignorance

Znet Article, January, 08 2004 Gideon Levy
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The suicide bomber at the Geha Junction, Shehad Hanani, was from Beit Furik, one of the most imprisoned villages in the territories that is surrounded by earth roadblocks on all sides. It's a place where women in labor and the sick have to risk wa...

Znet Article Burrows: Assessing the Geneva Accords, Part II

Znet Article, December, 21 2003 Paul Burrows
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Back to Part I PROVISIONS OF THE ACCORD This brings us, finally, to the actual content and provisions of the accord itself.  Many progressive people, including many I know in the Palestine solidarity and anti-Occupation movements in Winnipe...

Znet Article Christoff: The Geneva Accord and the Right of Return

Znet Article, December, 21 2003 Stefan Christoff
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Al-Baqa'a is Jordan's largest Palestinian refugee camp, located on the outskirts of Amman and home to more than 100,000 refugees. In the heart of one of Jordan's many desert valleys, at night, Al-Baqa'a is a beautiful array of lights sparkling bel...

Znet Article Chomsky: Dominance and its Dilemmas*

Znet Article, October, 10 2003 Noam Chomsky
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By The past year has been a momentous one in world affairs. In the normal rhythm, the pattern was set in September, a month marked by several important and closely related events. The most powerful state in history announced a new National Securit...

Znet Article Shalom: Reject Defeatism... Organize!

Znet Article, March, 19 2003 Stephen1 Shalom
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The onset of war does not negate the unprecedented antiwar activism in recent weeks and months, nor does it provide reason to diminish our efforts. Quite the contrary. Struggle for change should not be apocalyptic. The task is to steadily amass g...

Znet Article Shalom: 45 Questions and Answers Regarding Intervention in General, 9-11 and Afghanistan One Year Later, and Iraq on the Verge of War

Znet Article, October, 09 2002 Stephen1 Shalom
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Every outward manifestation that one can use to judge, says the answer is yes. Speeches, talks, interviews, and essays all evince horror at the events, pain for those who suffered, fear that it might recur and take more innocent lives. But what ch...

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