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Survivors’ protest makes foreign journalists gasp, by Daniel Ben Simon Haaretz 07.08.2007 a Jewish state apparently at war with Jewish Holocaust survivors, who were angrily protesting what they considered a miserable stipend offer from the government. Holocaust survivors miserable, can’t afford false teeth or one warm meal a day. One survivor had objected to the…

  Norman G. Finkelstein’s original article  A central thesis of my book Beyond Chutzpah is that whenever Israel faces a public relations debacle its apologists sound the alarm that a “new anti-Semitism” is upon us. So, predictably, just after Israel faced another image problem due to its murderous destruction of Lebanon, a British all-party parliamentary…

Life in the ‘open prison’ of Gaza by Aleem Maqbool BBC News, Gaza This is a tiny strip of land and its life is being drained out of it. For years, the spirit of those living here has taken a pounding, not only from the frequent Israeli military attacks but also by fighting between the…

Militant’s death unites Bethlehem Stalled peace process fuels support for Hizbollah Toni O’Loughlin in Bethlehem The Observer, Sunday March 16 2008 Outside Betlehem’s Nativity Church, Christians yesterday queued not to celebrate the birth they believe happened here but to mourn a death – that of a Palestinian militant with close links to neighbouring Lebanon’s Islamic…

HAIFA ZANGANA interviewed by Ian Sinclair for the Morning StarIraqi exile HAIFA ZANGANA talks about the right to fight against US and British troops and why the media insists on using the word ‘insurgency.’ Read full article:http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index2.php/ex/examples/features