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Cook: Israel's Marriage Ban Closes The Gates To Palestinians
Znet Article, May, 25 2006
Jonathan Cook
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In approving an effective ban on marriages between Israelis and Palestinians this week, Israel's Supreme Court has shut tighter the gates of the Jewish fortress the state of Israel is rapidly becoming. The judges' decision, in the words of the co...
Cook: Israel's road to 'convergence' began with Rabin
Znet Article, May, 11 2006
Jonathan Cook
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With his coalition partners on board, Israel's prime minister Ehud Olmert is plotting his next move: a partial withdrawal from the West Bank over the next few years which he and his government will declare as the end of the occupation and therefor...
Cook: The real meaning of deporting Hamas Members of Parliament
Znet Article, April, 23 2006
Jonathan Cook
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The policy of "hitnatkut", or unilateral disengagement, developed by Ariel Sharon needed a swift facelift following the withdrawal of settlers from Gaza last year. And Israel's prime minister-designate, Ehud Olmert, has found it in the related con...
Cook: Britain's Duplicity and the Siege of Jericho Jail
Znet Article, March, 20 2006
Jonathan Cook
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In the looking-glass world of Middle East politics, it is easy to forget that Ahmad Saadat, the imprisoned Palestinian leader Israel summarily arrested in Jericho late on Tuesday, is wanted for masterminding the killing of the Jewish state's most ...
Cook: Apartheid targets Palestinian home-owners inside Israel
Znet Article, March, 13 2005
Jonathan Cook
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You won't hear about the story of my Palestinian friend Ali Zbeidat and the threatened demolition of his "illegal" home, either from the hundreds of international correspondents in Jerusalem or from the Hebrew media - not even from those remarkabl...
Cook: Look again, Gandhi
Znet Article, September, 09 2004
Jonathan Cook
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"I am coming to speak about peace and non- violence," Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, told the Jerusalem Post newspaper shortly before he arrived in the Middle East to preach a message of mutual respect, love and understanding to two confl...
Cook: Israel in the Future
Znet Article, June, 06 2004
Jonathan Cook
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Eretz Israel Times, February 2014 It was a momentous week for the Jewish state. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics published the latest census figures for the year 2013 showing that the Arab population in Greater Israel was the smallest eve...
Cook: Matrix Reloaded- Yet Again
Znet Article, November, 16 2003
Jonathan Cook
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Israeli academic Jeff Halper has coined the phrase "the matrix of control" to describe the system of settlements, outposts, bypass roads, confiscated land masquerading as national parks, military zones, checkpoints and now hundreds of kilometres o...
Cook: Absent Voices
Znet Article, August, 18 2003
Jonathan Cook
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As Sharon manoeuvers in the shadow of the roadmap, the shortcomings of the mainstream Israeli peace camp have never been more evident, writes Jonathan Cook from Nazareth This Saturday a convoy of Jewish and Arab Israeli peace activists will vent...
Cook: Racism Reinforced
Znet Article, August, 09 2003
Jonathan Cook
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Click to view caption Farahti with three of their four children. Ahmed Farahti is facing deportation back to West Bank even though he has been married to Samar for eight years Morad as-Sana and his wife Abir returned home from their honeym...
Cook: Whose Security?
Znet Article, June, 16 2003
Jonathan Cook
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It took only two days from last week's handshakes at the Aqaba summit between US President George W Bush and the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers, Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas, setting the seal on the latest peace initiative for the Middl...
Cook: Democracy's Oasis: A Mirage
Znet Article, June, 08 2003
Jonathan Cook
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Israel's image as a democratic state took a further heavy battering last week as two separate reports were issued, the first by Amnesty International into Israeli military policies in the occupied territories, and the second by a United Nations wa...
Cook: The Real Target
Znet Article, May, 23 2003
Jonathan Cook
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It was an operation organised with the kind of ruthless precision needed to capture Osama Bin Laden. In the early hours of Tuesday 13 May, hundreds of armed Israeli police and security officials massed at different locations in northern Israel and...
Cook: Common Images Of Brutality
Znet Article, April, 11 2003
Jonathan Cook
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Al-Jazeera was showing Iraqi prisoners, their heads covered with hoods and their hands tied tightly with white plastic cuffs, on the television behind Sultan and Shareef Haroun. But the two brothers, sitting in their home again after three days ex...
Cook: Thwarting The State
Znet Article, March, 28 2003
Jonathan Cook
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Less than a fortnight ago Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took his cabinet ministers on a well- publicised tour of the northern sections of the 360km separation fence, ostensibly being built around the West Bank to protect Israelis from Palest...
Cook: No White Flags
Znet Article, March, 02 2003
Jonathan Cook
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The streets of Ramallah, unlike those of most other West Bank cities, are usually free of Israeli soldiers. Despite appearances, however, the army has stamped its control on the West Bank's capital as certainly as its tanks have left deep tread ma...
Cook: Crossing Which Borders?
Znet Article, January, 02 2003
Jonathan Cook
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Earlier this year the Israeli novelist A B Yehoshua wrote at length about Zionism, the Jewish nation- building ideology formulated by Theodor Herzl, explaining that at its core lay the concept of a border. Jewish identity in the diaspora, he obser...
Cook: Alone With The Settlers
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
Jonathan Cook
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Alone With The Settlers
Cook: Finishing The Job
Znet Article, November, 14 2002
Jonathan Cook
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What caused Benny Morris's recent conversion to the racist ideology of transfer? The "new historian" who began unravelling Israel's narrative of the war of 1948 -- that the Palestinians fled rather than that most were expelled or terrorised from...
Cook: Of Fences And Crossings
Znet Article, November, 09 2002
Jonathan Cook
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Small red ribbons fluttered in the early evening breeze among the olive groves of the West Bank village of Falamia, leading like a child's paper trail from the greenhouses and fields of vegetables up a gentle rocky slope towards the brow of a wide...
