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Western support for Zionism enables the narrative that what motivates the Palestinian desire for self-determination is irrational hatred, rather than the universal human desire to live freely
By Alejandro Kirk, TeleSUR Published Oct. 16 on El Mayadeen. Translation: John Catalinotto. Four days ago I arrived in El-Khiam – a Lebanese town bordering Israel, located halfway between Syria and the sea – as teleSUR’s special envoy. It is mountainous, like all of Lebanon, and the houses are scattered…
The historical roots of contemporary Israeli-Jewish identity lie in acts of forgetting actual relations on the ground. Brute force – both Israeli and of its western allies – has ensured periods of unstable and inherently fragile peace
Former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir is the subject of a new film called Golda starring Helen Mirren. To mark its release, MEMO takes a look back at an interview.