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Podur: Q&A with Justin Podur in Ramallah
Znet Article, June, 20 2002
Justin Podur
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On Tuesday, June 18, shortly after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 19 people on a bus outside Jerusalem, Ariel Sharon announced his intention to invade areas formally controlled by the Palestinian Authority, and not leave until Palestinian sui...
Bond: NEPAD
Znet Article, June, 20 2002
Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki made the cover page of the international edition of Time magazine in early June, with the misleading heading: `He has finally faced up to the AIDS crisis and is now leading the charge for a new African developme...
Rabbani: A Tale of Two Assassinations
Znet Article, June, 19 2002
Mouin Rabbani
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On the night of 1 May, six Palestinians who had since 29 March been besieged along with Palestinian leader Yasir ‘Arafat in the Ramallah governorate compound, were handed over to a joint American-British security team. Although Israeli Pri...
Shlaim: Israel's Occupation Turns 35
Znet Article, June, 19 2002
Avi Shlaim
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In the US-led peace negotiations of the last few years, there has been an insistent denial that the past has, or should have, any bearing on the present. What do you, as an historian, think of the prospects of negotiations which declare that the p...
Ewins: Binationalism an option in search of peace in the Middle East
Znet Article, June, 19 2002
Tristan Ewins
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Never since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 has the cause of peace in the Middle East seemed more hopeless than is the case today. With the total collapse of the much vaunted ‘peace process’ in 2000 after the rejection of f...
Steinberg: Afghan War Documentary Charges Us With Mass Killings Of Pow's
Znet Article, June, 19 2002
Stefan Steinberg
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A documentary film, Massacre in Mazar, by Irish director Jamie Doran, was shown to selected audiences in Europe last week, provoking demands for an international inquiry into US war crimes in Afghanistan. The film alleges that American troops coll...
Winer: Payback Time For Apartheid's Profiteer's
Znet Article, June, 19 2002
Stan Winer
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Payback Time For Apartheid's Profiteer's
Pilger: Ethnic Cleansing And The Establishment Of Israel
Znet Article, June, 19 2002
John Pilger
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Behind the turbulent news from Israel, a struggle for historical truth has passed almost unnoticed outside academic circles; yet its wider significance is epic. In May 1948, more than 200 Palestinians were killed by the advancing Jewish militia in...
Usborne: Can The CIA Take On Saddam Hussein?
Znet Article, June, 18 2002
David Usborne
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Saddam Hussein now knows what he is up against: President George Bush has given the green light to the Central Intelligence Agency to do all it can to drive him from power even killing him, although this would have to be in "self-defence"....
Azulay: An Old Man And No Sea
Znet Article, June, 18 2002
Jessica Azulay
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On May 26, I was brought to the shore of the Meditarranean sea to meet two fishermen, residents of the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. They spread blankets out on the sandy floor of their small shack for us to sit on and served tea with m...
Collective: The Palestinian National Initiative
Znet Article, June, 17 2002
Collective
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Today a group of Pal...
Said: Palestinian Elections Now
Znet Article, June, 16 2002
Edward Said
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Six distinct calls for Palestinian reform and elections are being uttered now: five of them are, for Palestinian purposes, both useless and irrelevant. Sharon wants reform as a way of further disabling Palestinian national life, that i...
Postol: A Hole in Our Missile Defense System
Znet Article, June, 16 2002
Theodore a. Postol
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A Hole in Our Missile Defense System
Fisk: Starbucks the target of Arab boycott for its growing links to Israel
Znet Article, June, 15 2002
Robert Fisk
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Beirut. Across five Arab states a new and closely co-ordinated campaign to boycott American goods is being launched, with Starbucks coffee shops their primary target, but with Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson and Burger King outlets also ...
Sammonds: The Ending Of History
Znet Article, June, 14 2002
Neil Sammonds
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In 1989 Francis Fukuyama argued in ‘The End of History’ that ‘communism’ was defeated and liberal capitalist democracies were the natural end-point of political evolution. In Palestine/Israel Fukuyama’s over...
Azulay: Eyewitness Report From Balata
Znet Article, June, 14 2002
Jessica Azulay
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On Friday, May 31, we heard that the IDF had entered the Balata Refugee camp near Nablus. A friend of ours called us to tell us that the soldiers had ordered that every man between the ages of 15 and 50 come out of his house. Those who came out we...
Fisk: Bush's Titanic War On Terror
Znet Article, June, 13 2002
Robert Fisk
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First it was to be a crusade. Then it became the "War for Civilization". Then the "War without End". Then the "War against Terror". And now--believe it or not--President Bush is promising us a "Titanic War on Terror". This gets weirder and weirder...
Foot: Is Capitalism Sick?
Znet Article, June, 13 2002
Paul Foot
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"Is capitalism sick?" inquires a challenging headline in the Sunday Times. The answer, over many paragraphs, is no. Capitalism, the article reveals, is in fine fettle. The only thing wrong with it is the occasional rotten or greedy capitalist. ...
Hass: Indefinite Siege
Znet Article, June, 13 2002
Amira Hass
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The far-reaching significance of Israel's siege policy and the institutionalization of the pass system for travel through the West Bank is in direct contradiction to the minimal--if any--interest shown in Israel about the phenomenon. The siege po...
Abunimah: Unhappy Anniversary
Znet Article, June, 13 2002
Ali Abunimah
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(Amman, Jordan, June 5) Today is the 35th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. This occupation is and has been utter hell for the Palestinians who were made refuge...
