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ISRAEL - PALESTINE

A Fascist Odor of the New Coalition (Rainbow of Crisis)

Wednesday 3 June 2009 by URI AVNERY

How lucky we are to have the extreme Right standing guard over our democracy. This week, the Knesset voted by a large majority (47 to 34) for a law that threatens imprisonment for anyone who dares to deny that Israel is a Jewish and Democratic State. The private member’s bill, proposed by MK (...) continue

BDS

Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) (Rainbow of Crisis)

Monday 1 June 2009

"Gaza today has become the test of our indispensable morality and common humanity."

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Pakistan

The war on civilians (Rainbow of Crisis)

Monday 1 June 2009 by Paul Rogers

The extension of war in Pakistan - from the Afghan border regions to Lahore - is inflicting a terrible toll on the country’s poor and displaced.

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The Dangers of False Optimism in the Middle East (Rainbow of Crisis)

Nothing to be Done

Friday 29 May 2009 by MOUIN RABBANI

The recent announcement that Barack Obama will deliver a major address to the Muslim world from Cairo in early June has further heightened expectations that the new American administration is determined to achieve a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As Obama met with Benjamin (...) continue

Israel

Netanyahu Chooses Warehousing (Rainbow of Crisis)

Thursday 28 May 2009 by Jeff Halper

Would Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu say the magic words "two states" after his meeting with President Obama? All Israel held its breath. (He didn’t). The gap between the two is wider than those words could ever have bridged, however. Obama, I believe, sincerely - perhaps urgently - seeks a (...) continue

Only diplomacy can reverse North Korea’s nuclear status (Rainbow of Crisis)

Thursday 28 May 2009 by Siddharth Varadarajan

Given the impact a nuclear Korean peninsula will have on Japan and the rest of Asia, Beijing and Washington have an incentive to formulate a joint approach towards DPRK.

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Can China Save the World From Depression? (Rainbow of Crisis)

Thursday 28 May 2009 by WALDEN BELLO

Will China be the "growth pole" that will snatch the world from the jaws of depression? This question has become a favorite topic as the heroic American middle class consumer, weighed down by massive debt, ceases to be the key stimulus for global production. Although China’s GDP growth rate (...) continue

India

A Logical Defeat for the Left (Rainbow of Crisis)

Can the Left learn the proper lessons from its electoral rout?

Tuesday 26 May 2009 by Economic & Political Weekly

There is a certain irony in the defeat of the Left, in particular of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M), in the recent general elections. It was among the handful of communist parties in the world that survived the fall of the then existing socialism in 1989-91 and it actually (...) continue

USA

Obama and two States (Rainbow of Crisis)

Tuesday 26 May 2009 by Ellen Cantarow

A false claim is wafting through the press: Obama is hanging tough with Benjamin Netanyahu, he’s going to "twist Israel’s arm" and at long last force the Jewish state into a two-state agreement, settling the Israel-Palestine question for good. There’s even talk that Obama backs the Arab League’s 2002 peace initiative, complete with its main demand: Israel’s withdrawal to its 1967 borders.

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ISRAEL - PALESTINE

Israeli Government Obstinance Following Netanyahu’s Return from Meeting in US with Obama (Rainbow of Crisis)

Monday 25 May 2009 by Brian Atkisnky

Now that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has arrived back from his first meeting in Washington D.C. with US President, Barack Obama, the pundits are out on both sides, either filled with exuberance about the meeting as a new opening for real change and the possibility of long-term (...) continue