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SOLOMON HUGHES finds the government went along with a US scheme to distract from Israel’s lethal Gaza blockade with an impractical floating pier scheme – though its own officials knew it wouldn’t work
Israel’s arbitrary persecutions have all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing
In the last part of a four-part series MARY ADOSSIDES visits the Jordan Valley and Nazareth where she witnesses further evidence of the inhumanity of Israel’s apartheid system
Historically the framework of that expulsion of Palestinians was predicated on the use of war as a pretext, as opposed to war as a response to Palestinian resistance, writes RAMZY BAROUD
VICTORIA HOLMES salutes the brave stand being taken by Palestine Action hunger-strikers in British prisons, and explains their demands
SYMON HILL looks at Tommy Robinson’s bid to use Christmas to spread division and hate — and reminds us that’s the opposite of Jesus’s message
CAMERON HARRISON and CJ ATKINS analyse the White House’s new strategy in detail
DENNIS BROE says media ownership is not only grossly concentrated in the US, Britain and France – new mergers are advancing the power of the rich to censor the news
Day 9: Jordan Valley. In 1967, 320,000 Palestinians lived in the Jordan Valley and 10,000 Palestinians worked in Israeli settlements. The valley was a breadbasket and its produce was exported, mainly to the Arab world.
There are nine Palestinian villages inhabited by farmers, some Bedouin villages and 13 schools.
Now Israelis control the land and its resources and they use different strategies to harass Palestinians, including laying mines which have caused fatalities.
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