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Palestine refugees from Iraq resettled in Chile
age. (Phil Sands/ IRIN) DAMASCUS, 7 April (IRIN)- Thirty-nine Palestinian refugees from Iraq — stuck at ... al-Tanf refugee camp in no-man’s land on the Iraq-Syria border — have been resettled in Chile. “Until last ... the first of its kind since Palestinians fleeing violence in Iraq were first interned in tents at ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Putting Israel's weapons above the law
Security Council Resolution 687, which ended the first Iraq war, clearly called for all countries to work ... to rid the region, not just Iraq, of WMD. Yet, all the focus has been on Iraq, even though, it was ... effectively disarmed. Iraq’s recklessness has provided a convenient cover for the UN and its powerful states to hide ...
Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Photostory: From Al-Amiriyyah, Baghdad to Amiriyyah, south Beirut
Saddam”, a multinational intervention led by the US waged a war against Iraq, during which the civilian ... that deployed during the Vietnam War. According to the UN, the destruction caused by the war cost Iraq ... days of Operation Desert Storm Iraqi soldiers were driven out of Kuwait, Iraq was subsequently put ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Election Backlash: Iraq, Palestine and Israel
aspired to usher in a new era of conflict resolution. Iraq Let’s begin with Iraq. This country was chosen ... detail: the ethnic and religious structure of Iraq. If it had replaced Saddam Hussein with some other ... democracy it had to be. In a society like Iraq’s, however, where ethnic affiliations and religious belief ...
charlotte - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Iraq Study Group: No Military Solution to the Palestine Question
/Moti Milrod) In its 6 December report, The Iraq Study Group made three important points regarding the ... to negotiate, mainly the issues which The Iraq Study Group points out-Jerusalem, borders and ... settlements — which are fast disappearing off the table. Just as the group’s recommendations regarding Iraq ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Divide and rule, Israeli style
of the sanctions? And if so, what goals were Israel and the US pursuing? The parallels between Iraq ... and Gaza may be instructive. After all, Iraq is the West’s only other recent experiment in imposing ... Hussein’s rule. True, the circumstances in Iraq and Gaza are different: most Iraqis wanted Saddam out but had no ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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A life brutally cut short: new book collects Tom Hurndall's photos of Palestine
Iraq and later the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine. On 11 April that year, while ... wrote in a student magazine. There are photos from Iraq and Jordan, but half of the book is dedicated to ... million marched against the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq that was then looming. Tom briefly joined the ...
Nora Barrows-Friedman - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 5 comments
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Statement about kidnapped CPT members by Palestinian political parties (Arabic & English)
the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq, Palestinian political factions gathered in Hebron to issue ... Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Iraq. The Islamic and National forces in the governorate of Hebron/Palestine have ... the occupation. We appeal to our brothers in the resistance and all those with alert consciences in Iraq, with ...
admin - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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BBC rouses anger by 'burying' documentary on Israel
moved a documentary comparing Israel’s arms programme to that of Iraq from prime time to a “graveyard” ... the programme was switched from 7.15pm on Sunday because coverage of the Azores summit on Iraq ... Israel and Iraq, was strongly criticised by Jewish groups, including the British Board of Deputies, ...
Ali Abunimah - 12/01/2012 - 06:43
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Palestinians in Iraq: More fleeing
Iraq-Syrian border following a traumatic week in Baghdad, bringing the total number stranded at the frontier ... A group of 356 has been in the no-man’s land between Iraq and Syria since May, while the second group, ... persecuted inside Iraq and have nowhere to go. UNHCR estimates that some 15,000 of an original group of ...
charlotte - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Step Forward, Tony Blair
that Iraq implement UN resolutions while not making the same demands of Israel. Blair went on the BBC ... the Palestinians. Before the Iraq invasion, Blair defended himself against charges that he was Bush’s poodle. “It’s ... this [Iraq], irrespective of the position of America.” Blair added, “If the Americans were not doing ...
Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Violence will end when occupation ends
far to deal with the two complex issues of Palestine and Iraq. It was particularly shocking, and ... in Iraq has never been mild or wavering, but always issued in the strongest possible terms. Yet none ... terrorism,” violence has not only been steadily on the rise, but also breaking fresh ground, as in Iraq. Is it ...
Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Lebanon conflict hurting economy, experts say
According to Rushi, loss of revenues from cancelled contracts could be disastrous to Iraq’s already shaken ... ministry of Trade in Iraq,” Rushi notes. Since the Israeli attacks on Lebanon started on 12 July, nearly ... the near future,” says a senior official in the Iraq’s Ministry of Trade. “Even products from Syria ...
arjan - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Iraq: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees evicted by landlords
Baghdad, told IRIN that some Palestinians in Iraq were victims of post-conflict turbulence along with other ... minorities. He added that Palestinians in Iraq were in a vulnerable position now, because there is little in ... in rent. The Palestinian community in Iraq is well established. Muhammad Salih al-Maddi, head of the ...
arjan - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Moran's remarks on Jews stoke debate
American Jews on the Bush administration’s hard line against Iraq have put a public face on a bitter and ... putting Israel’s interests ahead of those of the United States in provoking a war with Iraq to topple ... board in recent years has boasted such prominent Iraq hawks as Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Deputy ...
arjan - 12/01/2012 - 06:43
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Constant displacement for Palestinian-Iraqi refugees
The Electronic Intifada 23 January 2009 One of the more than 700 Palestinian refugees from Iraq in ... fled persecution in Iraq. No country has given any concrete pledge to take any of the refugees for ... go forward into Syria and fear going back to Iraq where they face persecution from Kurd and Shia ...
matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Iraqi militants force Palestinians to leave Anbar
Iraq’s Anbar province have come under increasing pressure from militants to leave or be killed, NGO s and ... a week to leave their homes or become the next victims of violence in Iraq,” Ahmed Muffitlak, a spokesman ... January 2007, while about 15,000 Palestinians remain in Iraq, fewer than half the number who had lived ...
arjan - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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It's worse than you thought: pro-Israel influence on US policy
weeks of the invasion of Iraq, when the US thrust toward Baghdad appeared to be meeting more resistance ... key Iraq hawks Richard Perle, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and others, claiming, “It ... Wiesenthal Center who claimed, “It has now become en vogue to blame the war on Iraq on Jews.” (Washington ...
Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Cease fire, cease siege
and food. I learned about the horrors of economic warfare during repeated visits to Iraq, when civilians ... after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and before the United States began bombing Iraq, I was part of the ... Gulf Peace Team, an assembly of international peace activists camped on the Iraq side of the border ...
matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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War is our Common Enemy
in Iraq, Electronic Iraq (eIraq) is the project of two groups who will be familiar to many PN ... of leeway was given in the Iraq Diaries for personal opinion. The people writing there were ... has experience with online news publishing. Voices has experience and people on the ground in Iraq. As ...
admin - 02/12/2017 - 03:13