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* Hamas backs Egypt's plan for thaw with Fatah
Agence France Presse (AFP) (22-10-2008)

The two main Palestinian movements have been bitterly divided since Hamas drove Abbas's security forces from the Gaza Strip in a week of fierce street clashes in June 2007, cleaving the territories into hostile rival camps after reports that Fatah was planning a coup....

* Licence to kill

Al Ahram Weekly

* Huffing and puffing to silence criticism of Israel

Carel Moiseiwitsch and Gordon Murray - The Electronic Intifada

* Will Israel and America spurn yet another Arab overture?
By The Daily Star

* The poetics of Palestinian resistance
As'ad AbuKhalil

* My crime was to tell the truth
Mohammad Bakri - The Electronic Intifada

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* Sixty Years after the Nakba [calamity] The Zionist Project: Staggering on the way to Evanescence

Walid Mohammad Ali (11-9-2008)

Sixty years have elapsed since the occurrence of what has always been known in the Palestinian, Arab, Islamic and human conscience as the "Palestine Nakba". The racial Zionism was never satisfied with preventing the return of the displaced Palestinians to their homes and properties, but rather went on demolishing and razing more than 500 Palestinian towns and villages with the aim of terminating any renewed hope of return in the minds of these uprooted people....

* Israel's Racism: 1948 Palestinians as a Paradigm

Abbas Ismail

* A Psychological Reading in the Israeli Vision of Settlement

Dr. Muhammad Ahmad El-Nabulsi

* The origins of the American- Zionist Informational rhetoric vis-�-vis the Arabs and Muslims

Khalid Bdair

* The Zionist settlement: An antipode to the right of return

Nafeth Abu Hasna

* The Zionist Project: between expansion and retraction

Dr. Fadl Shruru

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* Europe and the Middle East: Will EU Be a More Just Mediator?

Ramzy Baroud (22-10-2008)

FFor the European Union (EU) to be truly ready to take on a conflict of such magnitude, it must fully and clearly abandon its old ways of almost complete subservience to US-tilted and pro-Israel stances, and of refusing to treat Palestinians as equally deserving of the same rights and security gladly assigned to Israel....

* Preparing to fail

Saleh Al-Naami

* Livni: the making of an Israeli "dove"

Gabriel Ash

* Eye on Gaza

Dina Ezzat

* Dreaming of paradise

Joy Ellison

*The day after

Amin Howeid

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* Palestinian prisoners unjustly isolated for dozens of years
Ynet news (22-10-2008)

The report focused on inmates who must be separated from the general prison population due to security reasons, and on those suffering pre-existing mental difficulties or illnesses. Some of them, it noted, are held on various conditions of confinement for as long as 20 years.

* How Many More Innocents Must Die?

Jeff Halper

* HURNDALL CASE: ISRAELI MILITARY FORCES STILL KILL CIVILIANS WITH �NEAR-TOTAL IMPUNITY�

Amnesty International

* Iraq�s Palestinians still live in fear

Karin Laub and Sameer Yacoub

* Israeli sources: Israel may attack �Free Gaza� boats

Saed Bannoura

* Ain al-Hilweh children call for end to infighting
Mohammed Zaatari - Daily Star

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