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Category Archives: Israel and Palestine
Israel and Apartheid
Is ‘apartheid’ a legitimate description of Israel? Continue reading
Posted in Debate, Diary, Israel and Palestine
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On Bias
A while back, I noted that everyone, everywhere, thinks that their culture is under attack. Continue reading
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Imagination and Perversity in Politics
Returning to this idea of counter-intuitive solutions: I think perversity is a virtue here. It seems to be important elsewhere in political philosophy. Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, Israel and Palestine, Politics
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Outmanoeuverings
If you’re faced with a situation where bombing civilians seems to be the only course of action left open to you, then you’ve already been outmanoeuvered, you have already lost, and the only thing you are playing for is your own soul, your own humanity. Continue reading
Posted in Israel and Palestine
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‘The Unrecognized’ still unrecognized
Our film shows state authorities ploughing up crops that have been planted by Bedouin farmers, and that many kibbutzes were actually established not on new desert ground, but on land that was forcibly taken from its Bedouin owners. Continue reading
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Facetious Gaza Post
Why can’t we get nomenclature correct on this one? Its just so darn difficult to dehumanise people these days. Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, Israel and Palestine
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Johnston released
Its very good news that Alan Johnston has been released from captivity in Gaza. Today would be a good day to remember that five Britons are still missing in Iraq (why do we not hear much talk about them) and … Continue reading
Posted in Israel and Palestine, Media, Visual
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You’re still an MP, Tony
With all this talk about Tony Blair taking on some role as a Middle-East envoy for the US, no-one seems to have remembered that he will still be a Labour MP after he steps down as Prime Minister on Wednesday. He won’t be able to go galavanting off to Palestine if Gordon Brown’s whips office need him for a crucial division on housing r Continue reading
Posted in Israel and Palestine, New Labour, USA
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Affirmative Aliyah
Isn’t Israel’s Law of Return an example of Affirmative Action? Continue reading
Posted in Debate, Israel and Palestine
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Journalists in Trouble
Two journalists find themselves without liberty, in two very different situations. First, via Mash at the Dr Strangelove Blog, we hear that prominent journalist Tasneem Khalil arrested by military police in Bangladesh. Khalil is only 26, and works for the … Continue reading
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