
Simona Halperin, Director of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Human Rights and International Organizations and Dr. Avraham Arbiv of the Ministry of Infrastructure in Abu Dhabi
By Iqbal Tamimi
16/10/2009
Emirates official said Thursday that Israel's participation in an international meeti…
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Arab 'minority soldiers' seeking to escape Israeli economic and social discrimination find even worse scenarios at army.
By Jonathan Cook - ARRABEH, Israel
Demands from Israel’s chief commander this month that all Israeli citizens should be required to perform national service has turned the spot…
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By: Jeff Gates

September 25, 2009
Barack Obama’s recent conduct at the U.N. removed all remaining doubt as to Israeli influence inside this latest U.S. presidency. When he uttered the phrase “the Jewish state of Israel,” he provided precisely the provocation required to ensure that peace in t…
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By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
10 September 2009
Jonathan Cook considers the background of a general strike planned by Israel’s Arab citizens in response to racist government measures that cast them as enemies of the state.
The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country’s 1.3 million…
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Iqbal Tamimi - Why would Rupert Murdoch want to buy a stake in Saudi Media?

It seems that the Western media is after Arab media platforms, or are they only after the deep Arab pockets? People in the Middle East are still in a state of shock after last week’s Yahoo business venture of buying Maktoob.com, the on…
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By Iqbal Tamimi
Mostafa, an unemployed Palestinian refugee from Albaqaa camp in Jordan, unfolds a crumbled page of an old magazine in an attempt to read the stale news dated three years ago. This routine ritual comes usually after eating his falafel meal that was wrapped w…
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Added by Iqbal Tamimi on August 17, 2009 at 8:46pm —
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Israel’s school apartheid highlighted by court case
Arab family sue Jewish mum over “racist incitement”
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
11 August 2009
Jonathan Cook considers the case of a one-year-old Arab baby girl who was expelled from an Israeli day-care centre on her first day because the racist Jewish parents of the other children objected to having an Arab girl at the centre.
An Arab couple whose one-year-old daughter was expelled from an Israeli day-care centre on her first day are suin…
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Added by Iqbal Tamimi on July 27, 2009 at 6:30am —
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Israeli Housing Minister of the extremist Shas movement stated Thursday that it is essential for the state of Israel to construct settlements in the Negev and the Galilee to 'counter the increasing number of Arabs who do not love Israel'.


MK Ariel Atias attending the wedding of the gra…
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Weekend Edition
June 5 -7, 2009
Don't Carp, Organize
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Rabbi Manis Friedman
B
y Nathaniel Popper, The Forward
Like the best Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Manis Friedman has won the hearts of many unaffiliated Jews with his charismatic talks about love and God; it was Friedman who helped lead Bob Dylan into a relationship with Chabad.
But…
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Added by Elias Farhud on June 13, 2009 at 7:29pm —
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Jewish town in Galilee demands “loyalty oath” New bylaw designed to bar Arab couple
By Jonathan Cook in Misgav
Jonathan Cook reports on the depths of racism to which Israel has sunk, where local and regional councils are excluding Arab citizens of Israel from living in the community by demanding that they pledge support for “the valu…
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Added by Iqbal Tamimi on June 9, 2009 at 7:34am —
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DENIED INFAMY:THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON THE USS LIBERTY
By Alan Sabrosky
Americans respond badly to treachery. This may explain why they went into WWII against Nazi Germany with determination but against Imperial Japan with rage, even though Hitler was decidedly the more vicious enemy. The reason lay in Japan’s surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, described by then-President Roosevelt as “a date which will live in infamy.”
The Attack
Less catastrophic but m…
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Iqbal Tamimi - Gaza artists deliver hope out of the womb of destruction
Apr 21st, 2009

Israel should realize by now that the Palestinian nation is indestructible. A nation that was born from the womb of a great civilization is hard to defeat regardless of the methods or the variety of arms used to attack them. Nothing ever will break their spirit. Israel keeps destroying and Pal…
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Iqbal Tamimi - Women in Sport and Journalism: the first women's football team in Gaza played against the odds

Apr 8th, 2009
Gaza is full of stories of brave women, under the Israeli caused rubble there are many stories of women with hopes and great expectations,…
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Added by Iqbal Tamimi on April 8, 2009 at 11:44am —
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Israel Railways accused of racism over sacked Arab guards
“Hebrew labour” principle lives on

By Jonathan Cook in Qalansuwa
7 April 2009
Jonathan Cook highlights the latest case of racism against Israel’s own Arab citizens – the decision by the country’s railway company to ethnically cleanse itself of Arab employees by sacking 150 Arab citizens of Israel.
A decision by Israel’s stat…
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NEWS

LUISA MORGANTINI
Vice President of the European Parliament
ISRAEL TO BAN CELEBRATIONS OF EAST JERUSALEM ‘CAPITAL OF ARAB CULTURE’
STORMED AND ARRESTED 20 ORGANIZERS OF THE FESTIVAL AND INTERNATIONAL PEACE ACTIVISTS.
Strasbourg 23rd March 2009
While in East Jerusalem hundreds homes demolitions and evictions of Palestinians from their houses are still ongoing, also the…
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Added by Iqbal Tamimi on March 23, 2009 at 6:28pm —
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Israel bans celebrations of Al-Quds Capital of Arab Culture 2009 throughout country
20 / 03 / 2009 Time

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Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israeli Minister of the Interior Avi Dichter issued an order to cancel the Al-Quds Capital of Arab Culture events planned for the Israeli city…
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Added by Iqbal Tamimi on March 22, 2009 at 11:45am —
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Google does not know that Arab and Palestinian Mothers Exist
By Iqbal Tamimi • Mar 19th, 2009

On the 21st of March the Arab world celebrates Mother’s Day. On this day also the length of the day becomes equal to the length of the night. Nature is sending us a hint of o…
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Added by Iqbal Tamimi on March 19, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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Former Israeli spy linked to Pentagon leak
EXCLUSIVE: Washington Times.com
Uzi Arad, who is expected to serve as national security adviser in the next Israeli government, has been barred from entering the United States for nearly two years on the grounds that he is an intelligence ris…
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