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With his coalition partners on board, Israel’s prime minister Ehud Olmert is plotting his next move: a partial withdrawal from the West…
Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook is a British independent journalist, who has covered issues of Palestine and Israel for much of his over 20-year career. He formerly wrote for the Guardian and Observer newspapers and is a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism.
The policy of “hitnatkut”, or unilateral disengagement, developed by Ariel Sharon needed a swift facelift following the withdrawal of settlers from Gaza…
In the looking-glass world of Middle East politics, it is easy to forget that Ahmad Saadat, the imprisoned Palestinian leader Israel summarily…
You won’t hear about the story of my Palestinian friend Ali Zbeidat and the threatened demolition of his “illegal” home, either from…
"I am coming to speak about peace and non- violence," Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, told the Jerusalem Post newspaper shortly before…
Eretz Israel Times, February 2014 It was a momentous week for the Jewish state. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics published the…
Israeli academic Jeff Halper has coined the phrase ‘the matrix of control’ to describe the system of settlements, outposts, bypass roads, confiscated…
As Sharon manoeuvers in the shadow of the roadmap, the shortcomings of the mainstream Israeli peace camp have never been more evident,…
Click to view caption Farahti with three of their four children. Ahmed Farahti is facing deportation back to West Bank even though…
It took only two days from last week’s handshakes at the Aqaba summit between US President George W Bush and the Israeli…