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Israel's Other Epic Crime In Gaza: Cultural Genocide
-Analysis-Israel's war in Gaza can be described as a fight against the ancient identity of Gaza. It has led to the destruction of its original identity and historical and cultural heritage. It can be...
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How Israel’s Military Is Using Palestinians As Human Shields In Gaza
Omar Ashour, a 34-year-old Palestinian, describes what Israel’s military did to him after his arrest in northern Gaza: It is just one example that Daraj has found of how the IDF is using detainees as...
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The "Humanitarian" Pier Is Really About Biden's Election — And Colonizing Gaza
-Analysis-As the decisive stages of the U.S. elections approach, U.S. President Joe Biden is trying to wash his hands of Gazan blood. He is looking for ways to persuade American Muslims, whose votes...
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U.S.-Israel Relations Face A Bonafide Moment Of Truth
-Analysis-PARIS — Only a month ago, the United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution opposing an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza. On Thursday, Washington introduced its own draft resolution...
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The Doctrine Of Armed Struggle — A Fatal Flaw For The Palestinian Cause
-Analysis-BEIRUT — The idea of armed struggle has occupied the political consciousness of the Palestinians, since the launch of the contemporary national movement six decades ago. Indeed, the armed...
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Parents, Children, Black Markets: Inside The Desperate Search For Food In Gaza
RAFAH — Under the raging fire of war, like so many others, Samha Ziara was forced to flee with her husband and their seven children from their home in Gaza City. For the latest news & views from...
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U.S. And UN: The Abstention That Could Change The Course Of The War In Gaza
-Analysis-PARIS — A line has been crossed: For the first time since October 7, the United States has allowed a resolution demanding an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza to pass. For the latest news &...
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Gaza's Fishermen Risk Israeli Navy Shelling To Feed Their Families
RAFAH — In the early morning hours, fisherman Muhammad Bardawil arranges his fishing nets and places them on his tiny boat to begin his daily journey off Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah. He knows that...
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Israeli Hostages In Gaza: What Their Relatives Think Of A Ceasefire Deal
On Monday, the UN Security Council demanded an immediate ceasefire for the first time as well as the release of all hostages. Of the 252 hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, 130 remain...
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Has The Gaza War Killed The Idea Of The "Progressive Zionist?"
-Analysis-CAIRO — In recent comments former U.S. President Donald Trump said that any Jewish person who votes for Democrats "hates their religion,” adding that “they hate everything about Israel, and...
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Will Israel-Hezbollah Escalate? First Ask What Iran Wants In Lebanon
-Analysis-BEIRUT — The Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel was a turning point for the Middle East. It set off a chain of events across the region, most notably along the Lebanese-Israeli border where...
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October 7 And The Gaza War: A Double Godsend For Political Islam
-Analysis-CAIRO — Before Hamas’s unprecedented Oct. 7 attack (called "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood"), the demise of political Islam was considered imminent and certain, following a decade of failed...
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A Plan For "Domicide": Israel's Attempt To Destroy The Palestinian Home
The legendary Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once tried to capture the significance of the home to Palestinians, as the fundamental source of safety and security: “A dead house is also a mass...
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Report: Gaza Aid Workers Are Forcing Displaced Families To Pay For Food
RAFAH — Displaced people in Gaza’s southern cities of Khan Younis and Rafah say that delegates accredited by international and local aid groups have demanded funds for delivering free humanitarian aid...
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NGO Killings Trigger New Accusations Of Israel "Weaponizing Food" In Gaza
Analysis-PARIS — Among the tens of thousands of those killed and injured in the Gaza Strip over the last six months, the deaths of seven humanitarians by an Israeli drone strike might not seem so...
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Revenge Poetry? Israel's "Soldier Poets" Reveal The True Essence Of The War...
-Analysis-BEIRUT — The Israeli daily Haaretz published a recent article about the poetry anthology, “I Am Here,” published by the Israeli military with poems written by soldiers fighting in Gaza.The...
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With The Palestinians Risking Everything To Return Home To Gaza
CAIRO — Elegant and well-dressed, Ashraf Abu Eyada arrived an hour at the meeting point arranged by the Palestinian embassy in Cairo for those who want to return to the war-torn Gaza Strip.A farmer in...
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Palestine, The Nation? Israel's War Accelerates Recognition Of Palestinian...
-Analysis-PARIS — Is it necessary to recognize the state of Palestine? The question may seem illusory: the state doesn’t exist, and conflict over its birth is one of the key issues driving the current...
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Rafah's Destiny: A Border City Split In Two, Pawn Of A Poisoned Land
-Analysis-RAFAH — Rafah is two cities with the same name: The Egyptian Rafah and the Palestinian Rafah, separated by the border line between Egypt and Gaza.Both have occupied the front page in news...
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How The Killing Of “White” Aid Workers Has Pushed Israel Into A Corner
-Analysis-The Israeli military’s killing last week in Gaza of seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen NGO has pushed Israel into a new corner, deeper into the category of pariah state that...
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Did Israel Set A Trap For Iran — Or For Itself?
-Analysis-PARIS — The key word in the wars we are witnessing in the Middle East is “deterrence.” Since October 7, Israel has been trying to reestablish — by force — its lost deterrence with...
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Memories For Food: Gaza Mothers Sell Family Heirlooms To Feed Their Children
RAFAH — For Khadra Jomma, the necklace is priceless. She inherited it from her late mother, and she never imagined that someday she would sell it.But as Israel's war on Gaza entered its sixth month,...
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Missing In Khan Younis: How I Found My Brother’s Body
KHAN YOUNIS — My brother Suhail was a loving person, and we were very close. He treated me like his son, following my late father’s will. We would discuss our sorrows and stick together in the darkest...
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Netanyahu's "Iran Diversion" — Why It Can't Hide His Gaza War Crimes
-OpEd-CAIRO — Since Israel's April 1 attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, the United States has been in constant contact with Iran, both through intermediaries and directly, to avoid an...
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The West's Defense Of Israel Reminds Ukraine Of A Bitter Truth
-Analysis-PARIS — Seeing how effectively Israel and its Western allies destroyed 99% of the more than 300 missiles and drones launched by Iran on Saturday, you may have thought, as I did: if it's...
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A Middle East Paradox: All Those Iranians Looking To Israel As Last, Best Hope
-OpEd-While some in the West worry openly about the risk of an all-out war in the Middle East sparked by the Israel-Iran showdown, others see their tit-for-tat actions so far as being restricted and...
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Israel Enters "Phase Two" Of Gaza War — With Same Disregard For Civilian Deaths
-Analysis-Last week, a widow named Ibtisam, 57, was killed in a nighttime Israeli airstrike on the Yabna refugee camp in central Rafah. She was killed along with her four grandchildren, daughter and...
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End Of Impunity? The Meaning Of U.S. Sanctions Of An Israeli Army Unit
-Analysis-Just as the U.S. Congress was approving $26 billion in aid to Israel, the Biden administration announced that it would be sanctioning an entire Israeli army unit. This unprecedented move...
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Iran-Israel: Why It's Not Over Yet
-Analysis-Only Iranian officials know exactly the extent of damage caused by the Israeli airstrike near the central Iranian city of Isfahan on April 19. Yet the strike — in response to Iran's drone...
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Arab Regimes And Gaza: Caught Between Israel's War Crimes And "The American...
-Analysis-CAIRO — When Secretary of State Antony Blinken was asked to explain the recent U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution that would recommend Palestine's full membership to the United...
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