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Palestinians return to north Gaza

Masses of displaced Palestinians began streaming towards the north of the war-battered Gaza Strip on Monday after Israel and Hamas said they had reached a deal for the release of another six hostages...

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After ceasefire, Israel turns on Jenin

JUST two days after a shaky ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel this week launched a large-scale incursion of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank...

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Exeunt, the man from Scranton

WHEN a president has failed as miserably as Joe Biden, you have to change the subject. You have to distract the public...

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Hamas will free four women hostages in next swap

Hamas said on Tuesday it will release four women hostages in the next swap with Israel under the terms of a fragile truce intended to bring to an end to 15 months of war in Gaza...

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FIGHT FOR DIGNITY: Reshaping Gaza’s post-war narrative

FOLLOWING every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others — knowingly or unknowingly — attempt to exploit the aftermath for their own purposes...

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Bitter harvests: Gaza ceasefire

TWINNING the terms ‘ceasefire’ and ‘Gaza’ seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire announced on January 15 between Israel and Hamas could have been reached so much earlier by all the concerned parties. But will was lacking in Washington to force Israel’s hand, and Israeli prime minister...

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Israel-Hamas truce begins

Thousands of displaced, war-weary Gazans set off across the devastated Palestinian territory to return to their home areas on Sunday, after a long-awaited truce between Israel and Hamas took effect following an initial delay.

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The ceasefire charade

ISRAEL, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants — in this case the release of the Israeli hostages in Gaza — but Israel habitually fails to implement subsequent phases that would lead to a just and equitable peace. It eventually...

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Displaced Gazans await truce to return home

In a sprawling tent city in central Gaza, Palestinians displaced by war to other parts of the territory are all waiting for one thing: a ceasefire so they can go home.

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Ceasefire: not holding my breath

THE announced ceasefire agreement between Israel and Gaza is reminiscent of the last days of the Carter administration, a time when American hostages were released with Reagan (and his behind-the-scenes machinations) taking credit for ending the hostage impasse.  Be on the look-out for Trump to take 95 per cent of the credit...

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Seven reportedly killed in fresh Israeli attacks in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Thursday that at least seven people had been killed in fresh Israeli strikes in the Palestinian territory, hours before Israel’s cabinet was set to vote on a ceasefire deal...

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Mediators make final push for Gaza truce deal

Mediators were making a final push Wednesday to seal a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, after a Qatari official involved in the talks expressed hope an agreement could be reached ‘very soon’...

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As stags dazzled by headlights

LOS Angeles is burning, singeing the rich and the homeless in its wake. Gaza is in cinders, leaving an unconscionable toll of a perpetually violated people, but not without wounding and unnerving the tormentors. The fire and the slaughter are both man-made tragedies and are linked, though difficult to accept as such...

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‘On the brink’ of Gaza truce: Biden

‘In the war between Israel and Hamas, we’re on the brink of a proposal that I laid out in detail months ago finally coming to fruition,’ Biden said in a farewell speech at the State Department...

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Fires in Gaza are fires in LA

EARLIER on January 8, I saw a prominent Zionist commentator and X (formerly Twitter) user post, ‘Has Greta Thunberg taken her keffiyeh off to address the fires in LA yet or are there too many Jews living here for her to be concerned?’ The weird implications about a mythical anti-Semitic malice that climate activist Greta Thunberg has to supposedly fuel...

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The west makes war, the east, peace

WHILE the west subsidises carnage in Gaza and Ukraine, the east does the opposite. For instance, one potential far east flashpoint has long been the India/China border, but that’s changing — for the better, due to high-level meetings in December between political bigwigs from both countries. It was the first such confab since 2019, RT reported December...