Israel – Palestine Issue
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Israel approves steps to ease Gaza Strip blockade
Israel on Sept. 2 approved a series of measures easing its blockade of the Gaza Strip, including opening the main commercial crossing with the…
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Beyond Business as Usual in Israel-Palestine
A peace based on equal respect for both peoples’ rights will take time, however. ICG Steps to lower the temperature…
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Israel threatens legal action over Ben & Jerry’s boycott
Israel warned the consumer goods giant Unilever on Tuesday that it was considering a legal response against one of its…
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Golda Meir, Israel’s ‘Iron Lady’, left behind a complex legacy
She was hugely influential in the building of a Jewish and Zionist Israel, and a significant – and also controversial…
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‘Politics aside, we’ve abandoned children in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’
I have witnessed a lot in my career, heading up humanitarian responses in the world’s most violent, dangerous, and impoverished…
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The latest ‘spasm’ of violence in Gaza is unlikely to be the last
However, hostilities have since been contained, for the time being. Tony Walker The Conversation Provocative demonstrations this week in Arab…
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Star of David; Land of Myth
With these simple but powerfully inspiring words, a life-time ago, the world held-out hope that at long last international law…
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The Myth of Coexistence in Israel
On Tuesday, Mr. Blinken spoke in Jerusalem about his intention to “rally international support” to aid Gaza and rebuild what…
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Antony Blinken Says Palestinian Equal Rights Ultimately Will Be Found in Two-State Solution
This Week on Sunday that President Joe Biden is hoping to turn the corner from the Israel-Palestine bloodshed by focusing…
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As a ceasefire takes hold in Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians remain two peoples haunted by their own history
These are the people formed by history — haunted by history, as Derrida would have seen it. Stan Grant ABC…
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Tensions boil over at al-Aqsa Mosque, hours after a ceasefire was signed between Israel and Hamas
Police raids of the compound and clashes with Palestinians during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan helped touch off violence…
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Israel-Gaza: The Democrats’ ‘tectonic’ shift on the conflict
“The shift is dramatic; it’s tectonic,” says pollster John Zogby, who has tracked US views on the Middle East for…
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Joe Biden feels political ground shift as Israel-Gaza conflict rages on
In his staunch defence of Israel, Joe Biden is sticking to a course set decades ago as a young senator,…
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The UN’s 1947 proposed partition of Palestine: 70-year-old map at heart of intractable Israel crisis
The violence and death currently playing out across Palestine and Israel was ignited by a dispute in Jerusalem where Jewish…
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The Israel-Palestine Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Portents
In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts explain what is behind the explosive events and where they might lead. How serious…
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Jerusalem Unrest Exposes the Brittleness of Israeli Sovereignty over Palestinians
In December 2017, Donald Trump lent American recognition to Israel’s claims of exclusive sovereignty over Jerusalem. Omar H. Rahman The…
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