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/ 17 February 2009
Barack Obama might be more intelligent than many US presidents before him, but his stance on Gaza remains as conservative as his predecessor’s.
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/ 3 February 2009
Hawkish frontrunner Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday vowed he would smash Hamas if he becomes Israel’s prime minister after next week’s elections.
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/ 29 January 2009
An Israeli warplane on Thursday bombed an area of the Gaza Strip border known to contain smuggling tunnels to Egypt, the military said.
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/ 27 January 2009
US President Barack Obama told Arab television he would not wait until the end of his administration to deal with Palestinian and Israeli peace.
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/ 27 January 2009
A soldier was reported killed close to the border with Gaza Strip on Tuesday in what Palestinians said appeared to have been an attack by militants.
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/ 27 January 2009
Israel’s white death powder spurs Amnesty to cry ‘war crime’.
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/ 26 January 2009
The European Commission announced on Monday that it was providing €58-million in humanitarian aid to vulnerable Palestinians this year.
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/ 26 January 2009
Northern Ireland is an instructive example that even the most implacable of enemies can make peace, writes Jonathan Freedland.
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/ 22 January 2009
There is a window of opportunity to enlighten the public not on the emotive, but on the true historical and political facts of the situation.
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/ 21 January 2009
The war in Gaza may have ended but the territory remains under Hamas rule and Israeli sanctions, which could hinder efforts to rebuild the enclave.
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/ 21 January 2009
How many more Palestinians have to die before their suffering becomes a cause célèbre?
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/ 16 January 2009
The Congress of South African Trade Unions wants the South African government to cease all relations with Israel and close down the Israeli embassy.
Kgalema Motlanthe this week slammed the attacks in Gaza, dubbing the offensive ”sheer savagery and brutality” that caused a ”deep sense of revulsion”.
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/ 19 December 2008
Thousands of Bahrainis marched on the streets of Manama on Friday to demand the lifting of the Israeli siege on Gaza.
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/ 18 December 2008
Hamas on Thursday declared an end to a six-month ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip, raising the prospect of an increase in cross-border fire.
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/ 18 December 2008
Violence flared around the Gaza Strip on Thursday on the eve of an expiry of a truce but Israel stressed it would not rush into military operations.
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/ 15 December 2008
Nato countries are scrambling for alternative routes as far afield as Belarus and Ukraine to supply their forces in Afghanistan.
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/ 25 November 2008
Israel has again sealed off the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire, only a day after the border was opened to allow in humanitarian supplies.
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/ 18 November 2008
Claims that traces of uranium were found at the site of an alleged Syrian nuclear reactor which was bombed by Israel last year have prompted a row.
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/ 22 October 2008
Tensions have risen in recent weeks after thousands of Syrian troops were deployed close to the Lebanese border.
Palestinians are not free. They suffer under an Israeli occupation that is sustained by a regime of violence, surveillance and control.
Imagine the scene: the United Nations General Assembly meets to discuss a resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.