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By Alastair Macdonald and Adam Entous JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel ruled out all debate on letting Palestinian refugees return in any peace deal, as U.S. President George W. Bush ended a visit on Friday that left Arabs dismayed by his outspoken support for Israel's "chosen people". As Bush flew...
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Only conflict looms
The catastrophe of 1948 was, is and will continue to be the sine qua non of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It represents the historic injustice visited upon the Palestinian people to which everything else — the 1967 occupation, the 1973 war, the 1987 intifada, the 1993 Oslo Accords and the 2000 i
Sixty years of failures
17 May 2008, 0004 hrs IST,Daoud Kuttab PRINCETON: As the state of Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, Palestinians remember the Nakbeh, or "catastrophe" — their story of dispossession, occupation and statelessness. Despite giving lip service to peace, the Israeli army's refusal to leave the...
Bush leaves it to Olmert to push Mideast peace
JERUSALEM — President Bush gently urged Mideast leaders to "make the hard choices necessary for peace," leaving it to embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to stand before a divided parliament Thursday and forcefully declare that this war-weary nation is ready for a historic agreement...
60 Years of the Palestinian Nakba, 60 Years of Ethnic Cleansing (PCHR Press Release )
http://www.imemc.org/article/54884 60 Years of the Palestinian Nakba, 60 Years of Ethnic Cleansing Friday May 16, 2008 00:37 by PCHR Press Release - The Palestinian Center For Human Rights May 15, 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, when Palestinians were forced from their...
PALESTINE : 60 Years Of Denial, By Ramzy Baroud (PalestineChronicle)
www.countercurrents.org 16 May, 2008 'Don't ask for what you never had,' is the underlying message made by supporters of Israel when they claim Palestine was never a state to begin with. The contention is, of course, easily refutable. Following the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire in the...
SPIEGEL Interview with Lila Abu-Lughod: 'Any Solution Will Have to Involve More Creative Thinking'
While Israelis celebrate the 60th anniversary of their state's founding, Palestinians around the world are mourning the "Nakba" -- or "catastrophe" -- that drove so many into exile. Scholar Lila Abu-Lughod has taken a close look at the way Palestinians see the past and present.
Palestinians step up Israeli attacks
GAZA, May 16 (UPI) -- Militants bombed a Christian school early Friday in southern Gaza City, witnesses said, as Palestinians stepped up missile and mortar attacks. The intruders were said to have placed an explosive device by the school. There was no word on casualties, KUNA reported. A barrage...
Palestinians step up Israeli attacks
GAZA, May 16 (UPI) -- Militants bombed a Christian school early Friday in southern Gaza City, witnesses said, as Palestinians stepped up missile and mortar attacks. The intruders were said to have placed an explosive device by the school. There was no word on casualties, KUNA reported. A barrage...
Bush hails Israelis as ‘chosen people’ but ignores Palestinians on ‘catastrophe’ day
And in a speech that linked together Hamas, Hizbollah and al-Qa'ida, the President likened those – including "good and decent" people – who urged negotiations with "terrorists and radicals", with supporters of appeasing the Nazis before the Second World War. On Iran, Mr Bush said that permitting...
60 Years of Denial
Palestinian refugee children (Photo: Matthew Cassel) By Ramzy Baroud 'Don't ask for what you never had,' is the underlying message made by supporters of Israel when they claim Palestine was never a state to begin with. The systematic and brutal ethnic cleaning of the majority of Palestinian...
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