July 13, 2011
Turkish Democracy Gives Rise to Turkish Power By Phyllis Bennis, AlterNet Posted on July 11, 2011 (Selçuk, Turkey) It was election day, June 12, in this small town in Turkey’s heavily secular far west region. Opposition to the governing Justice and Development Party, the Islamic-oriented AKP, runs strong. The manager of the small hotel shook his [...]
Tags: Gross domestic product, Justice and Development Party, middle east, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, New York Times, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey
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July 13, 2011
In the coming weeks, Barack Obama, the US president, is set to decide on the size, scale and timing of an American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Last week the president’s military advisors reportedly argued against the prospect of a substantial withdrawal, saying that leaving too early would threaten hard-won gains. The president’s final decision will depend on judgements [...]
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July 12, 2011
Obama’s Bush-League World Is the Obama National Security Team a Pilotless Drone? By Tom Engelhardt George W. who? I mean, the guy is so over. He turned the big six-five the other day and it was barely a footnote in the news. And Dick Cheney, tick-tick-tick. Condoleezza Rice? She’s already onto her next memoir, and yet it’s as [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Presidency of George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein, United States, War on Terror
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July 12, 2011
By Torpedoing the Gaza Flotilla, Israel Sank Its Own Ship by Medea Benjamin, July 12, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Instead of high-fiving each other for their success in thwarting the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Israeli officials should be throwing overboard the propaganda hacks who catapulted the flotilla into headline news for weeks [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: As the French boat makes its way to Gaza alone, the rest of the flotilla is still trying to find ways of leaving Greece. The captain of the US boat has been released from prison and the charges have been dropped. The passengers of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” Michael Coleman and [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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July 4, 2011
Years of violence in Iraq has left a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and the most basic medicines. Areas outside Baghdad particularly suffer from the frail state of the country’s healthcare system. And, as Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf reports, children are often the most vulnerable There is a video available at the [...]
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July 3, 2011
Graveyard of Empires by Eric Margolis Recently by Eric Margolis: Turkey: The Mother of Revolutions In his majestic poem “Recessional,” Rudyard Kipling was writing of the fading British Empire, but his words are as vivid and pertinent today as a century ago: Far-called our navies melt away – On dune and headland sinks the fire – Lo, [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, British Empire, ERIC MARGOLIS, Osama bin Laden, Recessional, Rudyard Kipling, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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July 3, 2011
U.S. turns to other routes to supply Afghan war as relations with Pakistan fray By Craig Whitlock, Sunday, July 3, 9:54 AM The U.S. military is rapidly expanding its aerial and Central Asian supply routes to the war in Afghanistan, fearing that Pakistan could cut off the main means of providing American and NATO forces with fuel, food and equipment. Although Pakistan [...]
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July 3, 2011
KABUL, Afghanistan – Despite U.S. reports of progress on the battlefield, American troops were killed in the first half of this year at the same pace as in 2010 — an indication that the war’s toll on U.S. forces has not eased as the Obama administration moves to shift the burden to the Afghans. While [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Associated Press, Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai, Helmand Province, Taliban, United State, United States Armed Forces
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July 3, 2011
Obama intends to withdraw 10,000 US troops by the end of this year, and to complete the withdrawal of some 30,000 troops by September 2012 [GALLO/GETTY] US President Barack Obama’s speech from the White House on June 22 concerning the “way forward” in Afghanistan struck many as highly unusual. Though billed in advance as a [...]
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June 28, 2011
The British always claim to have something in reserve. But what happens when the pedal goes to the metal and there’s nothing there? Perhaps a new election would help the unelected form a proper government perhaps that’s not possible in the capital project where its one for one and all for one. The next [...]
Tags: Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Brendan Barber, ComRes, Dave Prentis, David Cameron, Local Government Association, National Union of Teachers, Strike action
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June 27, 2011
Arab activists say liberalisation of trade, investment and deregulation advocated by the US and the EU as part of their aid packages had contributed to the unrest in the first place. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-Zuma/Rex Features Arab activists warned on Monday that conditions attached to western aidthreatened to undercut the goals of economic and social justice at the [...]
Tags: African Development Bank, egypt, European Investment Bank, Hosni Mubarak, International Monetary Fund, Non-governmental organization, United States, World Bank
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June 27, 2011
Ray McGovern is a very courageous former CIA person who has been campaigning for the truth to be told about the US system of imperial domination, delusion and militarism that has been happening for decades. He wrote the following article and it is here for you to read and evaluate. George Ikners ikners.com Spirits [...]
Tags: Andrew Goodman, Audacity of Hope, James Chaney, Jonathan Daniels, Michael Schwerner, New York Times, Ray McGovern, Richmond Flowers Sr, Ruby Sales, United States
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June 27, 2011
With the ever growing presence of fascist thought starting to dominate the mainstream of the media it is useful to look around at what people who are not psychopaths think about the directions being taken at present around the planet. Here in australia we are firmly in the grip of an unelected Prime Minister who [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Civilian control of the military, David Petraeus, Naval Postgraduate School, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Ron Paul, Scott Horton, TomDispatch.com, United State, United States
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June 27, 2011
This is another version from the author of the video about what is often referred to by this page as the United States of Israel. Unfortunately nothing happening today is even remotely suggestive of anything but the hatred of democracy by the elites and a very general hatred of people by the Jewish State of [...]
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Binyamin Netanyahu, Democracy, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Jews, middle east, Organizations, Palestinian people, United State, United States, Warfare and Conflict
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June 26, 2011
Zuma, centre, met Gaddafi last month, securing a deal that was later rejected by Libya‘s rebels [Reuters] Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has agreed to stay out of negotiations to end the four-month old conflict in his country, African Union (AU) leaders said. AU leaders announced the agreement in a statement on Sunday following talks in the South African capital, Pretoria, aimed at [...]
Tags: African Union, Jacob Zuma, Libya, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, President of South Africa, United Nations
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June 26, 2011
NATO wrong to target residential buildings in Libya 21 June 2011 NATO planes carried out raids on Saturday killing 15 people, including three children. The planes targeted what was termed as a military position where a close aide to Libyan Leader Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi resided. Western correspondents who visited a hospital where the bodies of the [...]
Tags: Benghazi, Hamid Karzai, Libya, Misurata, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Tripoli, United States
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June 26, 2011
You may wonder why in a world beset with massive environmental problems as well as endless wars it all seems to come down to a dollar value before the penny drops. But is it the right penny? Saying that the war in Afghanistan is a costly mess or any words to that effect only further legitimises the [...]
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June 26, 2011
Libya unveils its latest weapon against Nato: women at arms More than 500 females of various ages armed to the teeth and swearing loyalty are paraded in front of international media Female Libyan supporters of Gaddai celebrate after graduation in weapons training and pose for foreign journalists in Tripoli, during a government guided tour. [...]
Tags: Benghazi, Libya, London, Misurata, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nadia Ali, NATO, Tripoli
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June 26, 2011
“A Moment in the Sun”: An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker, Author John Sayles Share1172 We spend the hour with legendary independent filmmaker and author, John Sayles. Over the past three decades, he has directed 17 feature films, including Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan, Lone Star, and Eight Men Out. He has often used [...]
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Dale Maharidge, Independent film, John Sayles, O. Henry Award, Philippines, Return of the Secaucus 7, United States
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June 26, 2011
Violating Palestinian Rights By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 25 June 2011 Violating Palestinian Rights – by Stephen Lendman Besides its Knesset, security forces and intelligence services, Israel’s High Court and Civil Administration ravage Palestinian civil society repressively. Two examples illustrate the problem. On June 22, a B’Tselem press release headlined, “Sharp increase in West Bank home demolitions,” [...]
Tags: Gaza War, High Court of Justice, Human rights, Israel, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Palestinian people, West Bank
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June 26, 2011
Palestinian Refugees: The Right to Remain, the Right to Return Once exiled, Palestinians are denied the right to ever return. (Via Aljazeera) By Samah Sabawi I was 12 years old when for the first time in my life I became a citizen of a country – Australia. Before that, I was a stateless Palestinian refugee. [...]
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June 25, 2011
Perhaps all the talk after the so called drawdown in Afghanistan, may well amount to concealed laughter by the military. The numbers being removed, if any real decease is actually going to happen are extremely small. Then the replacement mercenaries become yet another US army. If you have been just shot and killed by a [...]
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June 24, 2011
Tom Engelhardt There has been a great deal written and said about what is seen as the imperial project and the way in which imperialist aims and aspirations invariably are expressed in terms of war. Perhaps one of the most startling figures available is the way in which war itself has become very much a slaughterhouse [...]
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June 22, 2011
ISRAELI UNDERCOVER AGENTS BOAST OF KILLING PALESTINIANS ON TV* WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011 AT 10:39AM GILAD ATZMON JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Undercover Israeli intelligence officers appeared on national television Saturday to talk about assassinating Palestinians in a program broadcast on Israel’s Channel 10. Oren Beaton presented a photo album of Palestinians he killed during his time as [...]
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June 22, 2011
Hezbollah and the Arab revolution The group’s leader keeps his ear close to the ground, bonding with the dispossessed and speaking their language. Heralded by millions of fans as ‘the mastermind of the resistance’ – and demonised by the US and Israel as a ’terrorist’, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah‘s rhetoric towards Syria is equally divisive [GALLO/GETTY] Is [...]
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June 22, 2011
Poll: Americans Who Favor Withdrawing Troops Quickly at All-Time High CHRIS HONDROS/GETTY IMAGES Lt. John Paszterko, with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, talks with a local farmer while on patrol last year near Kandahar, Afghanistan. By Sara Sorcher Updated: June 21, 2011 | 6:30 p.m. June 21, 2011 | 1:51 p.m. Americans in record [...]
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June 22, 2011
Irked by Warnings, British PM Tells Military Leadership to Shut Up About Libya ‘You Do the Fighting and I’ll Do the Talking’ by Jason Ditz, June 21, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Warnings from top British military officials, including Navy Chief Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope have cautioned that the Libyan War [...]
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June 22, 2011
NATO Abandons Denial, Admits to Libya Attack That Killed 15 NATO Warplanes Attacked Sorman After All by Jason Ditz, June 21, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On Sunday, NATO copped to killing at least nine civilians in a strike in Central Tripoli, blaming a “weapons system failure,” but when a second incident [...]
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June 21, 2011
US Mayors Pass First Anti-War Resolution Since 1971 – The Organizers Back Story! By Maria Allwine (Fund Our Communities, Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore, MD Green Party, Southern Christian Leadership Conference-Baltimore, Healthcare NOW of MD) http://warisacrime.org/node/58235 The US Conference of Mayors just passed an historic resolution urging Congress and the President to end the wars in Iraq [...]
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June 21, 2011
Afghan Withdrawal: Obama Lied, Soon Many Will Have Died By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58232 The United States has about 200,000 military personnel in Afghanistan, half of them troops, half of them contractors. President Barack Obama put over two-thirds of that number there, first with a big escalation in 2009 that everyone refuses to pay the slightest [...]
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June 21, 2011
Adel: A decade of injustice Adel al-Gazzar has undergone a decade-long ordeal involving detention without trial, torture and medical malpractice. In January 2009, President Obama signed an order to suspend the Guantanamo military commission for 120 days and that the detention facility would be shut down within the year [GALLO/GETTY] For someone to be held [...]
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June 21, 2011
No Savior Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Prime Minister. STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images If Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s political career came to an end today, he could still proudly claim to be Palestine‘s most accomplished prime minister ever. The problem is that all of his predecessors — Ahmad Hilmi, Mahmud Abbas, Ahmad Qurei, and Ismail Haniyya [...]
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June 20, 2011
Obama’s third war US President Barack Obama’s promises that Libya would be a short war with humanitarian aims have fallen flat. US President Barack Obama now has his country mired in another military quagmire in Libya [GALLO/GETTY] Republicans in the United States Senate held a hearing in early April to discuss the progress of what [...]
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June 20, 2011
A Gaza Cri de Coeur Submitted by Ray McGovern on Sat, 2011-06-18 21:47 Palestine ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Gaza: Cradle of Killing — Americans Too By Ray McGovern June 18, 2011 Stuffing my backpack before setting out to board “The Audacity of Hope,” the U.S. boat to Gaza, I got a familiar-sounding call from yet another puzzled friend, [...]
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June 18, 2011
Egypt and Tunisia are now officially on the international donor community’s radar. The World Bank and the G8 are already planning different ways to sponsor the so-called Arab Spring. Many Arabs are speaking out against a possible Euro-US “hijacking” or “containment” of the regional movement through this type of ”cheque book diplomacy”. I will argue here that this position is not [...]
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June 18, 2011
As far as Afghanistan is concerned you need to make a start. A start to disseminate information that not only is war a crime but the damage being done to people’s everyday lives by the ridiculous expenditure required to not just fight a war but to remain on a war standing is ruinous. If you [...]
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June 18, 2011
US in talks with Taliban, says Karzai Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, confirms US involvement in the peace talks at a news conference in Kabul Share22 Reuters guardian.co.uk, Saturday 18 June 2011 10.23 BST Article history Diplomats have already said there have been months of preliminary talks between the two sides. Photograph: Reza Shirmohammadi/AP The US [...]
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June 18, 2011
Whatever attitude you adopt it is hard to go past the fact that the US was with Iraq and our co-criminal involvement was all about oil as a resource as well as about controlling oil reserves in the Middle East. Of course that spreads to and includes other countries with estimated massive reserves of gas [...]
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June 9, 2011
Please note there is not the slightest reference to asking the Afghans what they want or need or feel is necessary. George Ikners ikners.com U.S. wants ‘joint bases’ in Afghanistan, Gates says By Karen DeYoung, Published: June 9 The United States should maintain a long-term military presence in Afghanistan as a “tenant” on bases jointly occupied with Afghan [...]
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June 8, 2011
Unraveling the Emperor’s Speech to Write Our Own Story Palestinians have not forgotten, nor will we. (Photo: Rich Wiles) By Susan Abulhawa Anger was my first reaction after listening to Obama‘s two speeches, one to the world and another to AIPAC – the powerful Israeli lobby in the US. I went around to my friends [...]
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June 7, 2011
The NATO onslaught on Libya continues unabated and if anything has been increased. It seems only a matter of time before a ground invasion becomes at necessary, at least in the eyes of the military. In a world of never ending conflict and war that usually disguises a fight for dwindling resources as some vain [...]
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June 7, 2011
So the size of the U.S. troop pullout President Obama is slated to announce later this month now varies by an order of magnitude: those who want to preserve the gains earned over the past year are suggesting about 3,000 — of the 100,000 U.S. troops now there — would be about the right number [...]
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June 7, 2011
Arab Revolution, Western Intervention – Interview Tripathi: I have several misgivings about the NATO military operation in Libya. Interview by Kourosh Ziabari (Deepak Tripathi is a British historian, journalist and researcher who specializes in South and West Asia affairs, terrorism and the United States foreign policy. Deepak Tripathi worked with BBC for almost 23 years. [...]
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June 6, 2011
NAHIDA THE EXILED PALESTINIAN: JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE? REALLY?? SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2011 AT 6:48AM GILAD ATZMON Gilad Atzmon: This is a very important informative piece. I suggest anyone who is interested in Palestine to take the time and follow the links. Once again, a Palestinian identifies the enemy within. Source: http://uprootedpalestinians. Nahida the Exiled [...]
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June 5, 2011
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia‘s top diplomat warned on Saturday that the NATO operation in Libya was “sliding towards” a land campaign, a prospect he said Moscow viewed as “deplorable,” the RIA Novosti news agency reported. “We know that France and Britain intend to use military helicopters. We have given our view of NATO’s actions,” Foreign [...]
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June 5, 2011
What follows is a Democracy Now! interview with Hersh. JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, Sy, I wanted to ask you—you mentioned earlier the uprisings in the Arab world, and I wanted to ask you about the impact of those uprisings both on the theocracy in Iran and also on Israel’s attempts to constantly encircle Iran or [...]
Tags: AMY GOODMAN, Barack Obama, Iran, Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabia, Seymour Hersh, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Posted in Arab Spring, Israel, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and oil, Israel and the settlers, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, Negotiate. It's now or never, Netanyahu, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Peace Movement, Pentagon, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, Racism | No Comments »
June 5, 2011
Mobilization for ‘September Moment’ By Stuart Littlewood I hope the grey suits in the Palestinian Authority regularly receive ICAHD‘s monthly newsletter – ICAHD being Jeff Halper‘s excellent organisation, the Israeli Campaign Against House Demolitions. And I especially hope they pay close attention to the June edition just out, because it contains a must-read article by [...]
Tags: Israel, Jeff Halper, Mahmoud Abbas, Mark Regev, Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian people, United Nations, United States
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June 5, 2011
Israeli forces fire at ‘Naksa’ protesters At least four reportedly killed along Syrian frontier during pro-Palestinian rally marking “Day of Defeat” in 1967 war. Last Modified: 05 Jun 2011 09:52 The protesters had gathered to observe the anniversary of the ‘Day of Defeat’ marking the end of the 1967 war Israeli forces have opened fire along the Syrian frontier to [...]
Tags: Andrew Simmons, Day of Defeat, Golan Heights, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Nakba Day, Naksa Day, Palestinian people, Syria
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An article on the Gaza position and the Flotilla
Editor’s Note: As the French boat makes its way to Gaza alone, the rest of the flotilla is still trying to find ways of leaving Greece. The captain of the US boat has been released from prison and the charges have been dropped. The passengers of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” Michael Coleman and [...]
Tags: 2007–present blockade of the Gaza Strip, Australia, Breast cancer, Cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Gaza, Gaza flotilla raid, Health, Hellenic Coast Guard, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Israel, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Palestinian people, West Bank
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