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Occupation forces carried out a widespread demolition operation across the West Bank. Communities in the Jordan Valley were the hardest hit, although people in the Qalqilya district were also affected. Full report from Stop the Wall Campaign More from Stop the Wall Campaign on house demolitions

Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn  19 March 2008 Extracts: How did the people – the senatus populusque Romanus of our modern world – not rise up in rebellion when told the lies about weapons of mass destruction, about Saddam’s links with Osama bin Laden and 11 September?…

For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread ‘democracy’ throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardised not only US security…

   Israeli strategy of collective punishment: No incomes, no jobs fishermen not allowed to fish – 80% under poverty line – unemployment soaring – Egyptian regime fencing in their aprt of the border – prices putting basics out of reach of most – feeling of no way out…  Al Jazeera report video

Hamas popularity on the rise: poll RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — The popularity of Hamas has risen in recent months since the Gaza Strip’s border breach with Egypt, deadly Israeli strikes and the lack of progress in renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, according to an opinion poll released on Monday. “A major shift in Hamas’s favour…

It’s Not Either / Or – The Israel Lobby  05.01.2006 by Norman G. Finkelstein In the current fractious debate over the role of the Israel Lobby in the formulation and execution of US policies in the Middle East, the “either-or” framework — giving primacy to either the Israel Lobby or to U.S. strategic interests –…