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Hamas challenges myth of unbeatable Israel

OVER more than a century of aggressively pursuing a process of de-Arabisation of Palestine before and after the creation of the state of Israel for the settlement of foreign Jews, Israel has become the most powerful country in the Middle East...

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Secret agreements

WHILE the Australian government continues to pirouette with shallow constancy on the issue of Israel’s war in Gaza, making vacuous utterances on Palestinian statehood even as it denies supplying the Israeli Defence Forces with...

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UK and Israel-Palestine conflict

THE United Kingdom has a historical link to the current Israel-Palestine conflict. With the Balfour Declaration in 1917, Britain pledged to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, despite Jews constituting...

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Norway ready to recognise Palestinian state

Norway is ready to recognise a Palestinian state together with other countries, its prime minister said on Friday. In November, Norway’s parliament adopted a proposal for the country to be prepared to recognise an independent Palestinian state...

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60 members of Gaza family killed in Israeli strikes

Gaza’s Tabatibi family is in mourning for the second time in less than a month, after separate Israeli bombardments on buildings they were sheltering in killed more than 60 of their kin...

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Gaza truce talks are at an ‘impasse’

They set themselves a 48-hour deadline earlier this week, but on Thursday neither Hamas nor Israel had shown any signs of agreeing to a truce in Gaza despite pressure from international mediators...

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Gaza families try to identify Al-Shifa dead

World Health Organization teams arrived at what was Gaza’s biggest hospital Monday to help identify the bodies that litter the ruins. The Israeli military said it battled with Palestinian militants there during two weeks of fierce fighting last month, with the WHO saying that patients were trapped inside...

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From victimhood to apartheid statehood

THE tapestry of Jewish myths and history spans over two millennia. The Jewish saga of ‘diaspora’ to ‘aliyah’, of migrations and pogroms, of persecution and the Holocaust is woven with elements of both myths and history...

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Cunning of gender violence

THE testimonies emerging from Palestinians held captive by the Israeli military in Al-Shifa hospital, which was under persistent siege for 14 days, are harrowing: torture, starvation...

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A genocide foretold

THERE are no surprises in Gaza. Every horrifying act of Israel’s genocide has been telegraphed in advance. It has been for decades. The dispossession of Palestinians...