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Ziyaad Lunat
14 October 2008
 The recent violence in the Israeli town of Acre has been presented by mainstream media as an aberration in Israel's model "democracy." The BBC echoed official Israeli discourse, emphasizing that the so-called "Israeli-Arabs" "have full rights as Israeli citizens." However, as The Electronic Intifada contributor Ziyaad Lunat argues, the Zionist state has historically suppressed its Palestinian citizens, through a complex legal framework that circumspectly discriminates against them, while still allowing for a "democratic" facade. [MORE]
Carel Moiseiwitsch and Gordon Murray
7 October 2008
 In June 2007, the Palestine Media Collective produced a newspaper parody of The Vancouver Sun that satirized the anti-Palestinian bias of CanWest, the largest media conglomerate in Canada. Six months later, CanWest launched a lawsuit against those who "conspired" to produce and distribute the parody. The original writ named Mordecai Briemberg, Horizon Publications (the printer), and six Jane and John Does. Carel Moiseiwitsch and Gordon Murray comment for EI. [MORE]
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Paul Adrian Raymond
13 October 2008
 Aqaba Mayor Hajj Sami is permanently wheel-chair bound. He was shot three times in the back by Israeli soldiers when he was 16, and one of the bullets remains in his chest to this day. Yet he has tirelessly fought for his community's right to remain on the land they have owned for generations. Paul Adrian Raymond writes from Aqaba. [MORE]
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]
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Ali Abunimah
15 October 2008
 An underreported factor behind the violence in the northern Israeli city of Acre is how militant Israeli settlers from the West Bank, funded by donors in the United States, have instigated tension in an attempt to reduce the Arab population. The Electronic Intifada's Ali Abunimah analyzes. [MORE]
Report
10 October 2008
 The date is etched in his mind. "Our last delivery of raw materials from Israel was on 28 August 2007," says Rafat Redaisi. "But for more than a year now the imports we need have been banned. Before the closure [of Gaza] we used to buy a ton of raw plastic for $2,500. Now we're forced to rely on the black market, and we have to pay twice as much for the plastic." [MORE]
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Rami Almeghari
15 October 2008
 On a beautiful sunny day this week, a group from the International Solidarity Movement, a non-partisan grassroots initiative, went to the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun in order to help protect Palestinian farmers harvesting their olive crops from the Israeli army. EI corespondent Rami Almeghari reports from the occupied Gaza Strip. [MORE]
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Raymond Deane
13 October 2008
 Israel's one-sided war on the Palestinian people continues unabated while mountains books on the subject are being written, published, read and sometimes reviewed. EI contributor Raymond Deane assess whether two new volumes on Israel's occupation, Neve Gordon's Israel's Occupation and Saree Makdisi's Palestine Inside Out, present a radically new perspective or have the potential to influence public opinion in the right direction. [MORE]
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