U.S. ‘Personality Assassination’ of a Palestinian Ally
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By Nicola Nasser*
The report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, which the head of the mission, Judge Richard Goldstone, presented to the Human Rights Council (HRC) on September 29, prematurely plunged the Palestinian Authority (PA) in a short –lived euphoria over what it [...]
SRI LANKA: With End of War, Media Shifts Focus
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Feizal Samath
COLOMBO, Aug 12 (IPS) – The main news-pages in Sri Lanka these days are dominated by reports of clashes between two Muslim groups, the drama of two baby elephants separated from their mothers and government efforts to ban porn sites and curb adult-only movies. [...]

MIDEAST: Suddenly, It’s Advantage Fatah, and a Solution
Posted by editors on August 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Aug 13 (IPS) – Has the just-ended Fatah party convention, concluded in a cavalcade of personnel change, affected the prospects for a two-state solution that might finally resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Even more than the dramatic shift of power from the [...]
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