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Blaming the Victim by Randa Abdel-Fattah

What follows is a transcript of a speech given by Randa Abdel-Fattah at Parliament House in Sydney, on the occassion of the 40th Anniversary of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine. It is reprinted with the author’s permission. For forty years … Continue reading

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Terror and Starvation in Gaza by John Pilger

In this article, written for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how Gaza in Palestine has come to symbolise the imposition of great power on the powerless, in the Middle East and all over the world, and how a vocabulary … Continue reading

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Christadelphians take on the 1967 Six Day War

by Dr Bassam Dally The message was loud and clear: Israel’s creation and survival is a miracle from God and is a fulfilment of God’s prophecy. An advertisement placed by the Christadelphian church in my local newspaper, promised to tell … Continue reading

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Vanunu Convicted Again; Decries Israeli Apartheid by Mark Glenn

It has been three years since Mordecai Vanunu was released from prison after serving 18 years for blowing the whistle on Israel’s nuclear weapons program. Now he may be heading back to jail for violating a military court order forbidding … Continue reading

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The Ghosts of Deir Yassin by Sonja Karkar

Israel has long played on its heroic beginnings to stir up support for its less than heroic exploits today. The problem is that those heroic beginnings have always been a fiction … And, without acknowledgement of, and reparations for, the … Continue reading

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The Mecca Agreement by Chandra Muzaffar

On February 9th, 2007, rival Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, signed an accord to form a unity government, in a bid to end infighting and the crippling boycott of Palestine, supposedly a response to Hamas’ hostility towards Israel. Unfortunately, neither … Continue reading

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The Birth Pangs of a new Middle East Heavy Labor is Upon Us by Eileen Flemming

The way to justice, peace and security is in solidarity with International law and United Nations Resolutions, and when they are honored by all; the world will welcome the birth of a new Middle East. Last week, King Abdullah of … Continue reading

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Address by King Abdullah II to the Joint Meeting of Congress March 7, 2007, Washington DC

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Honorable Senators and Members of Congress, My friends, Thank you for such a warm welcome. It is an honor to stand, as my father did, before … Continue reading

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Rachel Corrie and Palestine by Sonja Karkar

Rachel was a peace activist who had gone to Rafah in Gaza because she wanted to help bring the terrible plight of the Palestinians to the notice of the world … and tragically, she achieved that with her death more … Continue reading

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