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The fighters of Iraq who answer to Iran
(Reuters) – Among the thousands of militia fighters who flocked to northern Iraq to battle militant group Islamic State over the summer was Qais al-Khazali. Like the fighters, Khazali wore green...
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Holy land sinks deeper into political turmoil
Aljazeera- Ramallah, West Bank - Two houses of worship on the two sides of the Green Line, the boundary that existed before the 1967 war, were subject to suspected arson attacks overnight, as the Holy...
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Qatar accused of dragging its feet over treatment of migrant workers
The Guardian Six months after Qatar promised major improvements to its treatment of migrant workers, Amnesty International has warned that its progress so far is “woefully inadequate” and accused the...
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Largest U.S. business delegation ever visits Egypt – but critics wary of message
Haaretz- Cr itics say the visit strikes the wrong tone amid a government crackdown on freedoms. By The Associated Press and Sarah El Deeb | Nov. 11, 2014 | 8:26 PM Representatives from over 60 U.S....
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Israel says will not cooperate with U.N. Gaza investigation
(Reuters) – Israel said on Wednesday it would not cooperate with a United Nations Human Rights Council investigation into this year’s Gaza war because its findings were “pre-determined”. The U.N....
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Wine, Blood and Gasoline
by URI AVNERY Counter Punch- November 14-16 Kafr Kana, a village near Nazareth, is probably the place where Jesus – according to the New Testament – turned water into wine. Now it is the Arab village...
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Israel won’t cooperate with UN as it continues to violate Gaza ceasefire
Al Akbar- The Israeli authorities decided not to cooperate with a United Nations Human Rights Council investigation into this year’s Israeli aggression on Gaza, an Israeli spokesman said Wednesday....
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The transfer of Israeli Arabs
Aljazeera- Nazareth - The killing of a 22-year-old Arab youth by Israeli police on November 7, has highlighted tensions that have been building rapidly between the Israeli authorities and the country’s...
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Israel bans heroic Norwegian doctor from Gaza for life
The renowned 67-year old doctor and human rights activist who has saved innumerable lives in Gaza by working right through Israel’s two most recent military attacks, has been banned by Israel from...
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Lebanon’s Druze, unhappily, are being dragged into Syria’s war
ASHAYA, LEBANON — Deadly clashes pitting Syrian Sunni jihadis against Druze militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have exposed divisions within this small esoteric community that spans the...
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Iran to Resist Excessive Demands
(Reuters) – Iran said on Tuesday it would resist Western pressure to make what it considered to be excessive concessions over its nuclear program, highlighting obstacles that could prevent a historic...
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Israel at the Moral Cross-Roads
by NORMAN POLLACK A tragedy, one of thousands that could have been averted: the killing by two Palestinians of four rabbis at morning prayer in a synagogue in Har Nof, a West Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox...
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HUMANITARIANS WHO WANTED TO SAVE LIBYANS WITH BOMBS AND...
Intercept-BY GLENN GREENWALD AND MURTAZA HUSSAIN Just three years after NATO’s military intervention in Libya ended and was widely heralded by its proponents as a resounding success, that country is in...
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Yemen’s former President Saleh and the language of terror
Alastair Sloan One day you are America’s closest ally on the war on terror, the next you find yourself on their hit list. And so the mad circus of this endless war gyrates on. This year it’s the...
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Atavistic revenge: The punitive demolitions of Palestinian homes
Jeff Halper-Israel is fond of presenting itself as a liberal Western democracy, in fact the only democracy in the Middle East. What defines a democracy, however, is the rule of law, and this is...
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Haaretz obtains full document of EU-proposed sanctions against Israel
An internal European Union document on proposed sanctions against Israel, which Haaretz obtained in its entirety on Monday, reveals new details on the suggestions being made in the internal discussions...
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In Israel, only Jewish blood shocks anyone
By Gideon Levy | Nov. 20, 2014 | -Haaretz Killings of Palestinians by soldiers and policemen will never shock Israel. The propaganda machine will whitewash everything, and the media will be its...
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Tanzania evicting 40,000 people from homeland to make room for Dubai royal...
Salon-JOANNA ROTHKOPF It will become a private hunting reserve 40,000 Masai people will be evicted from their homeland in Tanzania, because the Dubai royal family has bought it with the intention of...
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Behind the silent reaction of the Palestinian street
By Amira Hass-Haartz In private conversations, even those who support killing Israelis seem embarrassed by an attack on civilians at prayer; they don’t speak out because they share the anger that led...
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Egypt’s crackdown on dissent continues as bombing injures 5 policemen
Five policemen were wounded in a bombing near a Cairo university on Thursday, Egyptian security officials said, while an explosion at a train station left four people injured in a panicked stampede....
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