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Znet Article Cook: How US tax breaks fund Israeli settlers Peace group targets settlements' charitable status

Znet Article, September, 15 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Israeli peace activists are planning to ratchet up their campaign against groups in the United States that raise money for settlers by highlighting how tax exemptions are helping to fund the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank.

Znet Article Cook: Israel blocks money to Gaza’s disabled

Znet Article, September, 10 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Yunis al Masri was luckier than his two brothers from Gaza. Although the truck that ploughed into their car as they travelled to work in Israel 24 years ago killed Jaber and Kamal instantly, Mr al Masri survived with shattered bones, internal blee...

Znet Article Cook: Israel's Arab citizens call general strike

Znet Article, September, 09 2009 Jonathan Cook
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The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country's 1.3 million Arab citizens to call the first general strike in several years.

Znet Article Cook: The missing link in Palestinian organ theft?

Znet Article, September, 07 2009 Jonathan Cook
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The hyperventilating by Israel's leaders over a story published in a Swedish newspaper last month [2] suggesting that the Israeli army assisted in organ theft from Palestinians has distracted attention from the disturbing allegations made by Pales...

Znet Article Cook: Army’s West Bank Tactics Imported To Negev

Znet Article, August, 27 2009 Jonathan Cook
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The inhabitants of the Bedouin village of Amra have good reason to fear that the harsh tactics used by the Israeli army against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been imported to their small corner of Israel’s Negev desert.

Znet Article Cook: The first Israeli Jew in Fatah’s parliament

Znet Article, August, 21 2009 Jonathan Cook
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If a single person deserves the title of serial thorn in the side of the Israeli state, Uri Davis, a professor of critical Israel studies at al Quds University on the outskirts of East Jerusalem, might be the one to claim it.

Znet Article Cook: US turns blind eye to Israel's new separation policy

Znet Article, August, 17 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Jerusalem. In an echo of restrictions already firmly in place in Gaza, Israel has begun barring movement between Israel and the West Bank for those holding a foreign passport, including humanitarian aid workers and thousands of Palestinian residents.

Znet Article Cook: Israeli Rabbis Ban Marriage

Znet Article, August, 09 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Tel Aviv -- Two immigrants from the former Soviet Union staged a very public wedding in the streets of central Tel Aviv this week to highlight the plight of hundreds of thousands of Jews barred from lawfully marrying in Israel.

Znet Article Cook: Israel seeks ways to silence human rights groups

Znet Article, August, 04 2009 Jonathan Cook
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In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel's winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad.

Znet Article Cook: Can an 'Arab soul' yearn for Israel's anthem?

Znet Article, July, 28 2009 Jonathan Cook
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A leading Arab educator in Israel has denounced the decision of Gideon Saar, the education minister, to require schools to study the Israeli national anthem.

Znet Article Cook: Israel's Open Jerusalem?

Znet Article, July, 23 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Jerusalem. No one would have been more surprised than Fawziya Khurd by the recent pronouncement of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, that Israel operates an “open city” policy in Jerusalem.

Znet Article Cook: Twitterers paid to spread Israeli propaganda

Znet Article, July, 21 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Nazareth. The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems.

Znet Article Cook: The Two-State Solution, Israeli-style

Znet Article, July, 10 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has been much criticized in Israel, as well as abroad, for failing to present his own diplomatic initiative on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to forestall US intervention.

Znet Article Cook: Israel calls on Jewish fanatics to 'save' Galilee

Znet Article, July, 06 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Israel's housing minister called for strict segregation between the country's Jewish and Arab populations last week as he unveiled plans to move large numbers of fundamentalist religious Jews to Israel's north to prevent what he described as an "A...

Znet Article Cook: Israeli doctors colluding in torture

Znet Article, June, 30 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Israel’s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture, according to Israeli human rights groups.

Znet Article Cook: Dedication site built from razed Palestinian homes

Znet Article, June, 18 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Canada’s chief diplomat in Israel has been honoured at an Israeli public park -- built on occupied Palestinian land in violation of international law -- as one of the donors who helped establish the park on the ruins of three Palestinian villages.

Znet Article Cook: 12 Israeli Arabs indicted over Jewish gunman’s death

Znet Article, June, 10 2009 Jonathan Cook
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‘The victim is the guilty party’

Znet Article Cook: Netanyahu adviser moves out of the shadows

Znet Article, May, 21 2009 Jonathan Cook
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As might be expected of a former senior official with Israel’s spy agency Mossad, Uzi Arad -- the most trusted political adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister -- has got used to being in the shadows as he exerts influence.

Znet Article Cook: Israel Secret Prisons: How many secret prisons does Israel have?

Znet Article, May, 18 2009 Jonathan Cook
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The United Nation's watchdog on torture has criticised Israel for refusing to allow inspections at a secret prison, dubbed by critics as "Israel's Guantanamo Bay", and demanded to know if more such clandestine detention camps are operating.

Znet Article Cook: Pope's 'pilgrimage' mired in politics

Znet Article, May, 14 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Pope Benedict XVI upset the schedule on his first day in Israel by leaving an interfaith meeting in Jerusalem early on Monday night after a leading Muslim cleric called on him to condemn the "slaughter" of women and children in the recent assault ...

Znet Article Cook: Israel’s Arab students cross to Jordan

Znet Article, April, 09 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Obstacles to Israel’s Arab minority participating in higher education have resulted in a record number of Arab students taking up places at universities in neighbouring Jordan, a new report reveals.

Znet Article Cook: Israel Railways accused of racism over sacked Arab guards

Znet Article, April, 06 2009 Jonathan Cook
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A decision by Israel’s state-owned railway company to sack 150 Arab workers because they have not served in the army has been denounced as “unlawful” and “racist” this week by Arab legal and workers’ rights groups.

Znet Article Cook: Slow demise of Israel’s great survivor

Znet Article, April, 03 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Olmert will be remembered for little but scandal.

Znet Article Cook: Remembering Land Day

Znet Article, March, 30 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Palestinians across the Middle East were due to commemorate Land Day today, marking the anniversary of clashes in 1976 in which six unarmed Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli army as it tried to break up a general strike.

Znet Article Cook: Ottoman archives show land deeds forged

Znet Article, March, 25 2009 Jonathan Cook
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A legal battle being waged by Palestinian families to stop the takeover of their neighbourhood in East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers has received a major fillip from the recent souring of relations between Israel and Turkey.

Znet Article Cook: Bedouin baby's power struggle with Israel

Znet Article, March, 18 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Little Ashimah Abu Sbieh's life hangs by a thread -- or more specifically, an electricity cable that runs from a noisy diesel-powered generator in the family's backyard. Should the generator's engine fail, she could die within minutes.

Znet Article Cook: Palestinian villages become Israel’s playground

Znet Article, March, 10 2009 Jonathan Cook
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As spring sets in early, Israelis have been pouring into one of the country’s most popular leisure spots. Visitors to Canada Park, a few kilometres north-west of Jerusalem, enjoy its spectacular panaromas, woodland paths, mountain-bike trails, c...

Znet Article Cook: Israel’s military Mephistopheles

Znet Article, February, 27 2009 Jonathan Cook
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Officials claim unelected former general “running the country."

Znet Article Cook: The only Palestinian woman in Israel’s parliament

Znet Article, February, 24 2009 Jonathan Cook
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When Israel’s 18th parliament opened today, there was only one Arab woman among its intake of legislators.

Znet Article Cook: Israeli university welcomes 'war crimes' colonel

Znet Article, February, 09 2009 Jonathan Cook
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The Israeli government has moved quickly to quash protests over the appointment of the army's senior adviser on international law to a teaching post at Tel Aviv University. Col Pnina Sharvit-Baruch is thought to have provided legal cover for war c...

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