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Gaza Blockade Hangs Fire in Cairo: Where Is the Antiwar Left?
What would be worse than the killing of innocents that has happened so far in Gaza? Doing nothing to stop the same killing of innocents in the future.
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Sixty-Seven Years of Pakistan
Freedom movements in contemporary Pakistan suggest that at least Sindh and Balochistan are bound to emerge as separate sovereign countries sooner or later.
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The War Over the War: Israel, Gaza and American Protest
Protests on both US coasts about Israel's war on Gaza reveal lines of demarcation and solidarity - and suggest Israel is losing the "war over the war."
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Israel and Palestine Can Never Be Secure Until Both Are Secure
When Israelis and Palestinians understand that their own security depends on the security of the other, there will be no more room for violence. Awareness needs to be built …
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Pascal Boniface: “Criticizing the Policies of Israel Is Not Anti-Semitic“
Pascal Boniface, director of the left-leaning Institute of International and Strategic Relations, talks about how to keep sectarian peace in France while passions run high over Israel's operations against …
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Israel’s Grinding Ground War in Gaza
For there to be a viable Palestine, Israel and the international community must recognize Hamas as a valid political interlocutor.
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Netanyahu’s War: What Is It Good For?
The administration knows full well that it has various levers to pull to respond to the Gaza crisis, manufactured by Benjamin Netanyahu for political ends, but it lacks sufficient …
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The Arab Millennials Will Be Back: Three Ways the Youth Rebellions Are Still Shaping the Middle East
Many of the millennial activists who briefly turned the Arab world upside down and provoked so many changes are putting their energies into non-governmental organizations.
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Nothing Good Will Come of This
More violent resistance will not end the occupation, and more violent repression will not end the resistance.
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Iraq Is Coming Apart at the Seams – Here’s Our Essential Reader
Itu2019s often the case that the more complex a situation is in the real world, the sillier our political discourse around it here at home is, and this conflict …