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America talks big about “human rights”: We should be ashamed of that hypocrisy

By : Elayne Clift , Salon Human rights: It's a term tossed around all too easily, a hollow piece of rhetoric practiced mostly in the breach, a faux cliché uttered in fragile times. It's a mantra lacking moral conviction and humane behavior,…
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Dear people of Palestine, forgive us our silence

by : Manoj Kumar Jha , The India EXPRESS Manoj Kumar Kha writes: India’s abstention from UNHRC resolution on Gaza violence is a betrayal of its history -- and the bond between two peoples.We would like you to read this letter as an expression…
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Israel: 72 years of catastrophe

BY Asa Winstanley, Middle East Monitor Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias and the newly-formed Israeli army expelled more than half of the indigenous population of Palestine.Some 800,000 Palestinians were either forced out literally…
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Israel is trying hard to erase Jerusalem’s Palestinians

reference : Jalal Abukhater , ALJAZEERA And it has made colonial violence a permanent feature of Palestinian lives in the holy city. For us Jerusalemites, it is frankly nauseating to hear commentators throw around cliches of “cycle…
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Foreign interference in the Palestinian elections

by: Adnan Abu Amer , ALJAZEERA Several foreign players are seeking to influence the outcome of the Palestinian elections. As Palestinians begin the countdown to their general legislative and presidential elections in May and July of this…
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‘They destroyed our dreams’:Israel’sbulldozers target Palestinian women farmers

By Shatha Hammad, middle east eye The Palestinian women workforce faces a 'direct threat', as Israeli forces raze their agricultural lands. After a five-kilometre walk from her home in the northern occupied West Bank, 49-year-old Khitam…
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Nothing has changed in US policy, so why is the PA building links with Biden?

by : Motasem A Dalloul , MIDDLE EAST MONITOR On 6 December 2017, the then US President Donald Trump formally recognised the Palestinian city of Jerusalem as the capital of the occupation state of Israel: "Today, we finally acknowledge the…
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What a Biden Presidency Might Mean for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

source : TIME , JOSEPH HINCKS Husam Zomlot says he never had curtains fitted for the house that was his residence for a year and a half in Washington D.C.So convinced was the head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s mission to…
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Israel arrested 4,634 Palestinians in 2020

The Israeli occupation authorities arrested 4,634 Palestinians during 2020, including 543 minors and 128 women, according to a statement issued by institutions dealing with prisoner concerns and human rights. source : MIDDLE EAST MONITOR…
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Israel, UAE collaborating to eliminate United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees UNRWA

Israel and the United Arab Emirates are working together to eliminate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) without solving the issue of Palestinian refugees, the French newspaper Le Monde has reported.The…