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Gabriel Ash
3 October 2008
 With Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert forced to concentrate on his corruption charges, Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, won the ruling party Kadima's primaries and is hoping to form a new government. The Electronic Intifada contributor Gabriel Ash looks at Livni's cultivated dovish image in the context of a neo-liberal and colonial Israel. [MORE]
Savera Kalideen and Haidar Eid
2 October 2008
 The strategic value of international solidarity with the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, refugees in the Diaspora and Palestinians in Israel raises some fundamental questions. The most immediate and urgent are: what the nature of international solidarity should be and how it can best support the Palestinian struggle for self-determination? Savera Kalideen and Haidar Eid comment for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
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Abdelfattah Abusrour
2 October 2008
 Once again, the holy month of Ramadan comes to end. Once more people are preparing for the Eid holiday, the feast of breaking the fast. Once more, people think how can they celebrate this Eid. Once more, we ask the same questions: how many checkpoints and roads will be open so that Palestinians can be able to circulate freely from place to place to visit their family and friends? Abdelfattah Abusrour writes from occupied Palestine. [MORE]
Rami Almeghari
29 September 2008
 Ramadan al-Hour's four children have not seen their father for the past year. Ranging in age from five years to four months old, Amal, Aya, Sulaf and Walid live with their mother in the town of Kufr Qassem inside Israel. Israeli authorities have prevented al-Hour's wife and children from entering Gaza. Rami Almeghari reports from Gaza. [MORE]
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Adri Nieuwhof
6 October 2008
 In August, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, the international watchdog organization, asked three Israeli companies to respond to a report by an Israeli non-governmental organization that protested the treatment of Palestinian workers at West Bank settlement industrial parks. EI contributor Adri Nieuwhof reports. [MORE]
Report
5 October 2008
 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the attack, and subsequent humiliations, of former Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member, Rafat al-Najjar (65), his wife, son and brother-in-law by the Palestinian police in Khan Younis. [MORE]
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Cherrie Heywood
6 October 2008
 RAMALLAH, West Bank (IPS) - An Israeli police commander has called them "provocateurs," "militants," and "lawbreakers." Earlier in the year the Israeli army decided that their presence in the city of Hebron, 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem in the Palestinian West Bank, constituted a security threat and banned them from the city, stating that any member of the organization caught there would be expelled forthwith. [MORE]
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Atef Alshaer
6 October 2008
 It is inspirational to find Palestine richly meditated in poetry. Two new poetry collections provide a robust testament to that -- One collection is by the Palestinian-American poet Sharif S. Elmusa, Flawed Landscape, and the other is made of selected works by various poets edited by Remi Kanazi, Poets for Palestine. Atef Alshaer reviews for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
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