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As the pictures of the human waves have shown, not only his supporters grieved over his death. The more than 100,000 who…
Iman al-Hams was a 13-year old refugee schoolgirl who was executed — after being wounded –by an Israeli platoon commander on the…
Ć¢€Ė[A] Conquest may be fraught with evil or with good for mankind, according to the comparative worth of the conquering and conquered…
To me, and to many around the world, I suppose, Edward SaidĆ¢€ā¢s name will always be associated –above all other things —…
Ć¢€ÅSenior British military officers on the ground are making it clear they are dismayed by the failure of US troops to try…
While many media analysts are painstakingly discussing the PR war between Washington and Baghdad, few have absorbed the watershed that al-Jazeera has…
On the second anniversary of the second Palestinian intifada, I would like to focus not on the pain, the destruction and the…
In the middle of our regular dance rehearsal, our second after the end of the latest Israeli assault, a group of Belgian…
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