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- Thursday, May 10, 2012
ZNet Article There are advantages to Netanyahu in postponing an election. Not least, it gives him time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism -
- Friday, Feb 24, 2012
ZNet Article Palestinians, both in the Occupied Territories and inside Israel, will pay the biggest and most immediate costs of the new decisions -
- Thursday, Jan 19, 2012
ZNet Article The new infiltration law is the latest in a set of policies fortifying Israel's status as the world's first "bunker state" -
- Saturday, Dec 03, 2011
ZNet Article If Israel continues on its current course, another myth long accepted by western countries – that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East” – may finally be shattered -
- Friday, Oct 28, 2011
ZNet Article The Prawer plan, named for Ehud Prawer, the head of planning policy in Netanyahu’s office, is intended as the coup de grace of the Israeli government’s efforts to strip the Bedouin of most of their ancestral lands -
- Monday, Oct 17, 2011
ZNet Article By reminding Palestinians on either side of the Green Line of their common fate, Israel may yet unleash a force too powerful to control -
- Thursday, Sep 29, 2011
ZNet Article Reading the Guardian, it is possible to believe that one of the biggest problems facing our societies is an array of mainly isolated dissidents and intellectuals on the left -
- Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011
ZNet Article “What is a peace activist or Palestinian allowed to do to oppose the occupation?" -
- Wednesday, Jul 06, 2011
ZNet Article “We will never forget Lifta. Our dream is to come back.” -
- Monday, Apr 18, 2011
ZNet Article Munther Fahmi is known as the “bookseller of Jerusalem”. Among his customers are to be found Tony Blair, Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and Hollywood actress Uma Thurman. -
- Thursday, Apr 07, 2011
Commentary Israeli leaders have barely hidden their jubilation at an opinion article in last Friday’s Washington Post by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone reconsidering the findings of his United Nations-appointed inquiry into Israel’s attack on Gaz... -
- Wednesday, Mar 23, 2011
ZNet Article Israel admitted this week that it was behind the abduction of a Gazan engineer who went missing more than a month ago while travelling on a train in the Ukraine. -
- Thursday, Mar 10, 2011
ZNet Article Netanyahu’s illusory peace plan - Jonathan Cook, author of "Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair" looks at Israel's current prospects as 'upheaval spreads across the Middle East". -
- Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011
ZNet Article Israel has been indulging in a sustained bout of fear-mongering since the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was toppled earlier this month. -
- Tuesday, Dec 28, 2010
ZNet Article Half a million trees planted over the past 18 months on the ancestral lands of Bedouin tribes in Israel's Negev region were bought by a controversial Christian evangelical television channel that calls itself God-TV. -
- Thursday, Dec 16, 2010
ZNet Article The pretty two-storey home with a red-tiled roof built by Adel and Iman Kaadan looks no different from the rows of other houses in Katzir, a small hilltop community in northern Israel close to the West Bank. -
- Monday, Dec 13, 2010
ZNet Article Israeli police have been criticised over their treatment of hundreds of Palestinian children, some as young as seven, arrested and interrogated on suspicion of stone-throwing in East Jerusalem. -
- Thursday, Dec 09, 2010
ZNet Article Jews must not rent homes to “gentiles”. That was the religious decree issued this week by at least 50 of Israel’s leading rabbis, many of them employed by the state as municipal religious leaders. -
- Monday, Nov 08, 2010
ZNet Article The tranquility of Safed, a small Israeli city nestled high in the hills of the Upper Galilee close to the Lebanese border, is not usually disturbed except by the occasional pilgrimage by Madonna or other famous devotees of the Jewish mystical tea... -
- Sunday, Oct 17, 2010
ZNet Article In all likelihood, I will be one of the very first non-Jews expected to swear loyalty to Israel as an ideology rather than as a state. -
- Friday, Oct 15, 2010
ZNet Article Israel secretly staged a training exercise last week to test its ability to quell any civil unrest that might result from a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority requiring the forcible transfer of many Arab citizens, the Israeli media has repo... -
- Tuesday, Oct 12, 2010
Commentary A ghost haunted the meeting of the Arab League in Libya at the weekend, as its foreign ministers decided to give a little more time to the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. -
- Thursday, Oct 07, 2010
ZNet Article Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has insisted from the launch of the current peace talks that the Palestinians set no preconditions, while making his own precondition the centrepiece of negotiations. -
- Tuesday, Oct 05, 2010
ZNet Article The disclosure of the details of a letter reportedly sent by President Barack Obama last week to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will cause Palestinians to be even more sceptical about US and Israeli roles in the current peace talks. -
- Wednesday, Sep 29, 2010
ZNet Article With the resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank yesterday, Israel’s powerful settler movement hopes that it has scuttled peace talks with the Palestinians. -
- Thursday, Sep 23, 2010
ZNet Article A vague security offence of “contact with a foreign agent” is being used by Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, to lock up Arab political activists in Israel without evidence that a crime has been committed, human rights lawyers alleged this week. -
- Wednesday, Sep 01, 2010
ZNet Article Nuri al Uqbi’s small cinderblock home in a ramshackle neighbourhood of Hura, a Bedouin town in Israel’s Negev desert, hardly looks like the epicentre of a legal struggle that some observers say threatens Israel’s Jewish character. -
- Wednesday, Aug 25, 2010
ZNet Article Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life outside the occupied West Bank. -
- Thursday, Aug 19, 2010
ZNet Article Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Arab counterparts have been criticized by lawyers and human rights groups. -
- Friday, Aug 13, 2010
ZNet Article Two of the United States’ closest allies in the Middle East, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are on the brink of signing large arms deals with the US in a move designed to ratchet up the pressure on Iran, according to defence analysts. - All Most Recent Content
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