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I’ve always believed that it’s bad karma to lie, and that fibbing does more harm than good. Besides, in the end, the Truth will always be revealed, so why bother lying in the first place. But Islam actually embraces and encourages dissimulation...
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Bassam Eid is the founder and director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) based in east Jerusalem. It’s a thankless job and he’s between a...
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Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal on Thursday welcomed what he said was a change of US policy towards his Islamist movement which controls the Gaza Strip and said he...
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Key Arab nations have kept silent about Iran’s political upheaval, possibly reluctant to antagonize the powerful nation that sponsors such militant groups as...
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A Spanish judge said Monday he will continue to investigate seven current and former Israeli officials over an air force bombing in Gaza in 2002 that killed a suspected...
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Hundreds of Palestinian patients have been trapped in the Gaza Strip, unable to travel abroad for crucial treatment for cancer and other diseases, because of political...
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AP, London
An attempt by the leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas to make an unprecedented video link address to British lawmakers failed Wednesday following a technical...
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It promises to be one of the British Parliament’s more controversial question and answer sessions.
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Britain says it will review all weapons exports to Israel following the country’s recent war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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Gunmen with suspected links to Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip killed at least 32 Palestinians and wounded dozens in attacks on political opponents and alleged...
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The Palestinian human rights debate has taken a new turn with the appointment of Richard Goldstone, a Jew with close ties to Israel, to head a U.N. investigation into...
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One of the most prominent feuds in the Middle East is between Saudi Arabia and the tiny natural gas-rich nation of Qatar. Saudi Arabia does not look to kindly on those...
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U.S. courts allow American so sue foreign defendants. I am all for that, by the standards should be universal.
[Their] are Americans who went to Israel and came home...
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Just because one is critical, nay even anti, Israel and find its assault against Gaza to be a massacre that constitutes war crimes; does not mean that Hamas should get...
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An Israeli government official says Israel is “very unlikely” to cooperate with a U.N. probe into whether Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in the...
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A Gazan doctor was just been nominated for the Noble Peace Prize.
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So the Annapolis peace talks are on. Though Bush is gung-ho about them, the Palestinian and Israeli people have little hope they will yield anything...
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