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In his astute take on the current electoral crisis in Iran ('An alternative reading', Al-Ahram Weekly , 25 June-1 July 2009), by far the best in the literature so far, Azmi Bishara lays out a very concise premise for our reading of the unfolding event but, alas, reaches a hasty and flawed conclusion.
At the risk of sounding banal, I would like to begin this piece with a quote which I stumbled on last month while reading Barack Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father : "There's a struggle going on... it's a struggle that touches each and every one of us. Whether we know it or not.
When in 1956 Israel dragged its feet about withdrawing from Sinai after the failed tripartite Israeli-British-French invasion of Egypt, US president Dwight D Eisenhower sent a letter to Israeli prime minister David Ben- Gurion expressing grave concern regarding reports that Israel did not intend to withdraw.
What unwritten law is out there that allows Israelis to sling racist insults at Palestinians with impunity? After all my years in this country, and the absurdities that come along with it, this is one absurdity I still find hard to digest.
In brazen defiance of American demands for freezing Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Israeli government has decided to build hundreds of additional settler units.
Today the Governor-General is due to "direct the Clerk of the Writs to proceed immediately to issue a writ to the Returning Officer for the holding of the indicative referendum".
Israel’s chief military rabbi, Avichai Ronski, has said women should not serve in the armed forces, the Haaretz newspaper reported yesterday.
Everyone who lives here is a hostage. We know it, even if we are often surprised anew by the specific people who are currently holding us hostage, staving off progress toward a future peace.
(IsraelNN.com) Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that the IDF has not only not discussed ending military service for women but is interested in expanding their service and assignments.
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