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The Zionist scenario – now and in the future
Lawrence Davidson assesses the chances of a Zionist victory – possession of all Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River and ethnically cleansing the land of Palestinians. He argues that, with Palestinian resistance worn out by Israeli brutality, repression and sanctions, hope for the Palestinians rests increasingly with civil society action, especially the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Israel’s efforts to erase the memory of the Palestinian catastrophe, the Nakba
Neve Gordon argues that Israel's tireless efforts to conceal the truth of the Nakba – the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 – will ultimately prove futile and that, even today, most Israeli youths know what the Nakba is, even if their views of the conflict with the Palestinians remain lopsided.
Nakba – the Palestinians’ never ending catastrophe
Alan Hart argues that Zionism’s mission is the complete liquidation of the Palestinian presence in historical Palestine and that, “unless the major powers led by America summon up the will to call and hold Zionism’s monster child to account for its crimes, there will be a final ethnic cleansing of Palestine at some point in a foreseeable future”.
Netanyahu crowns himself King of Israel
Jonathan Cook argues that the newly announced coalition in Israel between the Likud and Kadima parties will give Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism – weakening the media, human rights groups and the courts – and allow him to further undermine rival centres of power and overturn even the most sacrosanct of Israel’s basic laws.
Israel’s hawks in open revolt against war on Iran
Uri Avnery looks at how a number of leading hardliners in Israel’s military and security establishments have spoken out against the Israeli government’s plans for an attack on Iran’s nuclear installations and called into question the fitness for office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak.
Intimidated, detained and tortured: false imprisonment in Ethiopia
Graham Peebles calls on the international community, especially donor nations, to take action against the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia, including freezing personal assets and imposing targeted sanctions, to force it to end its gross human rights violations.
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