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Unity at last: the Palestinian people have risen
The Palestinian people are at last united – and their voice is now piercing through the international silence, compelling the world to hear a single chant for freedom, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Gaza

FROM the outset, some clarification regarding the language used to depict the ongoing violence in occupied Palestine, and also throughout Israel. 

This is not a “conflict.” Neither is it a “dispute” nor “sectarian violence” nor even a war in the traditional sense. 

It is not a conflict, because Israel is an occupying power and the Palestinian people are an occupied nation. 

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