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11/10/2008

Palestine's greatest asset: its people

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In January US president elect Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the new American head of state. The term of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will end a few days before that, and in February, Israeli elections will be held. In 2010 the term of the Palestinian Legislative Council is also set to expire. The Electronic Intifada co-founder Arjan El Fassed suggests how the Palestinian national movement should move forward, inclusive of Palestinians around the world.

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06/18/2008

Israel has won the European cup

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Israel has now been granted the highest level of European Union relations available to a non-member state, despite the EU's own finding that "little concrete progress" has been made on issues raised between Israel and the EU, namely Israel's human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. EI co-founder Arjan El Fassed comments on the efforts towards a "more intense, more fruitful, more influential cooperation" between the EU and Israel.

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06/04/2008

Beyond the make-believe of negotiations

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Israel needs a Palestinian state -- or at least the illusion of one -- to mask the reality of apartheid where millions of Palestinians, soon to be the majority population between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, are ruled by a Jewish sectarian government in which they have no rights. MORE

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