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Essay (Geo-Politics):  Inhumane Times — Saturday’s devastating attacks have been met in Israel with rage at the government’s failures and demands for disproportionate vengeance. By Joshua Leifer

Essay (Geo-Politics):  Inhumane Times — Saturday’s devastating attacks have been met in Israel with rage at the government’s failures and demands for disproportionate vengeance. By Joshua Leifer | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.ph - October 13, 2023 11:02 AM
A member of the press standing in front of a house destroyed during Hamas’s attack on Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel, October 11, 2023. Photo credit: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images
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About the essayist: Joshua Leifer is a Contributing Editor at Jewish Currents and a member of the editorial board of Dissent. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and elsewhere. (October 2023)
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Essay (Geo-Politics): Causes for Despair — Wars are usually harbingers of change, yet Israel’s previous wars have achieved no fundamental progress toward peace. By Raja Shehadeh

Essay (Geo-Politics): Causes for Despair — Wars are usually harbingers of change, yet Israel’s previous wars have achieved no fundamental progress toward peace. By Raja Shehadeh | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.ph - October 13, 2023 10:47 AM
Palestinians walking in Gaza City’s al-Rimal district following Israeli airstrikes there, October 10, 2023. Photo credit: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images.
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About the essayist: Raja Shehadeh is a lawyer and writer. His most recent book is We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, a finalist for the National Book Award. (October 2023)
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10 Must-Read Histories of the Palestine-Israel Conflict

10 Must-Read Histories of the Palestine-Israel Conflict | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From lithub.com - November 9, 2017 12:54 PM
November 2 marks the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, when the British government famously promised to establish a Jewish "national home" in Palestine. A
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Essay (Geo-Politics): Gaza Without Pretenses — For years Israel and Hamas maintained an unstable equilibrium that kept the Gaza Strip contained. It was always likely to be temporary. By Tareq Baconi

Essay (Geo-Politics): Gaza Without Pretenses — For years Israel and Hamas maintained an unstable equilibrium that kept the Gaza Strip contained. It was always likely to be temporary. By Tareq Baconi | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.ph - October 13, 2023 10:54 AM
Smoke billowing in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s port, October 10, 2023. Photo credit: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images.
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About the essayist: Tareq Baconi is president of the board of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network and former senior analyst for the International Crisis Group on Israel/Palestine. He is author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance. (March 2023)
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Essay: 'This Land Is Our Land' - On Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories - by Raja Shehadeh 

Essay: 'This Land Is Our Land' - On Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories - by Raja Shehadeh  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.nybooks.com - January 7, 2018 12:59 PM
The usurpation of land in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is taking place long after the age of colonialism came to an end, sixty-nine years after the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in defiance of international law. Jewish settlements violate Article 49 of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits an occupying power from transferring its own people into occupied land. And this is happening in full view of the media in one of the most reported conflicts in the world.
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In the West Bank, where I live, the enclosure of the land has given rise to a system of discrimination over the use of natural resources of land and water that is akin to apartheid.
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Article: Frank Ramsey - was he the greatest philosopher of the 20th century?

Article: Frank Ramsey - was he the greatest philosopher of the 20th century? | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.the-tls.co.uk - October 18, 2013 3:02 AM
Frank Ramsey - was he the greatest philosopher of the 20th Century? @davidpapineau suggests maybe yes http://t.co/5UQZupO1vZ @TheTLS
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