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Live: Israel and Iran trade strikes as blasts rock Tel Aviv and Tehran

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Israel warns 'Tehran will burn' if missile attacks continue

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Israel's attack on Iran: Why Netanyahu opted to roll the dice

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Gaza live: Five killed in Israeli attacks while awaiting aid in Gaza

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The more Israel kills, the more the West portrays it as a victim

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In Israel, euphoria gives way to fear after Iranian missiles rain down on Tel Aviv

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In pictures: Iranian retaliatory strikes cause extensive damage in Israel

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Iran launches another round of missiles at Israel in retaliation for attacks

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Exclusive: Israel and US modified F-35s to enable Iran attack without refuelling, sources say

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Israel opens fire on Palestinians seeking aid, as UN warns of relief obstruction

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These questions are often ignored in the Israel-Iran story. We asked a panel of experts

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Exclusive: US quietly sent hundreds of Hellfire missiles to Israel before Iran attack

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Whether with a green light or grudging acceptance, Trump enters war with Iran

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How US leaders, lawmakers and civil society reacted to Israel's strikes on Iran

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Reactions within Iran reveal deep divide after Israeli strikes

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Taco Trump: Iran strikes suggest US president is not in control - or just plain mad

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Greta Thunberg tried to shame western leaders - and found they have no shame

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Blood or bread: Surviving Israel's vicious hunger regime in Gaza

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Israel's shock and awe has proven its power but lost the war

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War on Gaza: Why Frantz Fanon's words are more relevant today than ever

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How Trump's team squandered a chance to end the Gaza war

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Why Gaza genocide denial should be criminalised worldwide

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Gaza flotilla: The Madleen shows us the world as it could be

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The Gaza genocide is not a 'bug' - it is the logic of Israel's system

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For Palestinians, to exist is to resist Israel's war of annihilation

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How big tech and populism are upending 'western values'

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Israel's victims in Gaza are nameless in western media. These are their names

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Starmer is running out of road

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How Germany's former foreign minister failed Gaza - then got a top UN job

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How Morocco's high-stakes gamble on Israel could be its downfall

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Tiran and Sanafir: Red Sea islands are now a chokehold over Egypt's security

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Nawaf Salam is failing to rebuild Lebanon - while bending to US-Israeli interests

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Syria after Assad: Returning to Damascus after years of war, I found hope

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War on Gaza: How Israel is replicating Nazi starvation tactics

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Badenoch blurts out the truth: Britain is at the heart of Gaza 'proxy war'

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UK sanctions must target roots of settler violence - starting with Smotrich and Ben Gvir

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Egypt slammed for its treatment of foreign nationals doing Global March for Gaza

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Prominent Egyptian TV host says Gaza-bound convoy a 'ploy to embarrass' the country

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Pep Guardiola says killing of children in Gaza 'hurts my whole body'

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'Selfie genocidaires': Social media users slam Israel's 'mocking' of Gaza flotilla activists

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'Do you think Israel has a right to exist?': NYC mayoral debate question sparks backlash

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Washington Post update on Gaza aid group killings article sparks online backlash

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Hit TV show Andor spurs viewers to draw parallels to Israel's war on Gaza

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'Smirker of the genocide': Outrage after Matthew Miller says Israel committed war crimes

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'Hypocrisy': Zadie Smith faces backlash after signing letter calling for Gaza ceasefire

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Outrage as Netanyahu says no mass starvation in Gaza, suggests Palestinians are overweight

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US sparks criticism after halting student visa appointments and extending 'social media vetting'

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'Dehumanisation by design': US-Israeli Gaza aid operation descends into chaos

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From Spain to Mecca on horseback: The men performing Hajj like medieval pilgrims

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Eid al-Adha dishes from around the world, with not a kebab in sight

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Eid al-Adha 2025: When is it and everything else you need to know

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Eid al-Adha 2025 quiz: How much do you know about Islam's biggest religious festival?

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Their End Is Our Beginning: On imagining a world free of cops

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Gaza Olympics 2048: A vision of Palestine a century after Nakba

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The good Arab immigrant: Ramy Youssef hits his stride with #1 Happy Family USA

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Forgotten: Searching for Palestine's Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

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'The Encampments' vs 'October 8': A battle of narratives on Palestine plays out in cinema

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Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha amongst 2025 Pulitzer winners

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We are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth

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Trolling Israeli soldiers and being shoved by a settler leader: Louis Theroux's 'The Settlers'

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The Encampments: A portrait of a protest for Palestine that moved America

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ITV documentary 'Our Land' lays bare the fanaticism of the Israeli settler movement

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A Saudi-Egyptian rivalry? What the 2025 Ramadan season taught us about the Arab TV landscape

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Gaza genocide: How the hell did this happen, asks Pankaj Mishra

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Eid al-Fitr 2025: When is it and everything else you need to know

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Berlinale 2025: 'Khartoum' stands out amidst tepid Middle Eastern offerings

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American fascism: Sue Coe's new book fails to realise Trump is not an aberration

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Who was Ibn Arabi? The medieval Sufi master of Damascus

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Israel closes Al-Aqsa Mosque to worshippers until further notice

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Rights group files legal challenge to remove Hamas from UK terror list

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Exclusive: David Cameron threatened to withdraw UK from ICC over Israel war crimes probe

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UK and France abandon plans to recognise Palestinian state at conference

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Exclusive: Greece to lobby Egypt against Haftar endorsing Turkey-Libya maritime deal

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Exclusive: UK believes Trump may sanction Amal Clooney over ICC Palestine role

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The quiet migration: Why Muslims are leaving India in staggering numbers

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Exclusive: Hamas accepts Witkoff truce outline with amendments aimed at ending war

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Unrwa chief on Gulf deals with Trump: 'I wish a trickle of those trillions went to Palestinians'

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What's inside the boxes of aid being distributed in Gaza?

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Sudan: Gum arabic haul worth $75m seized by RSF in Kordofan looting spree

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Aid NGOs distance themselves from Gaza Humanitarian Foundation after leaked letter

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Gaza genocide: How Arab regimes became the enemy within

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The Nakba: Jaffa's erasure is a warning to Gaza - but history is yet to be written

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A dangerous mind: The legacy of Bijan Jazani and Iran's 1975 Evin executions

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Kenize Mourad: The Ottoman princess boycotted in France for supporting Palestine

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Ten years after the air strikes began, Yemenis hope for an end to 'journey of suffering'

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How Abu Dhabi built an axis of secessionists across the region

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Revealed: How the UK continued selling arms after Yemen massacre

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Are Arab dissidents facing a new wave of repression?

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Eyes were wet with tears, children cried. The long walk home to northern Gaza

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What made Benjamin Netanyahu?

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They won the war. Can Syria's new leaders rebuild the country?

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In search of a coherent Labour policy on Gaza

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'The explosions didn't stop': Tehran's residents fearful and angry after Israeli strikes

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Israel's attack on Iran prompts widespread support and alarm at home

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Egypt detains nearly 200 foreigners who flew in to join Gaza march

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'They severed my gymnast limbs': Israeli bombing shatters Gaza teen's dream

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Israeli military officials say there are no restrictions on bombing Gaza homes

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What activists hope to achieve with the 'Global March to Gaza'

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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says top legal scholar Melanie O'Brien

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Greta Thunberg aboard Gaza flotilla: Doing nothing 'is not an option'

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'No voices, no light': Palestinian buries husband alone after two months trapped under Israeli siege

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US army vehicle displaying word 'kafir' in northeast Syria seen as 'provocation'

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Turkey and SDF hold direct talks under US mediation

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Jordan's king warned US against assassinating Syria's Sharaa before Trump meeting

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How did sanctions affect life in Syria, and what happens next?

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Syria closes controversial Rukban refugee camp near Jordanian border

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US to investigate army vehicle displaying word 'kafir' in northeast Syria

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Israel strikes Syria hours after missiles launched towards occupied Golan Heights

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They were a few miles from safety. Then the RSF stopped them

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Sudan's army and RSF militia enter bone-breaking phase in Nyala and Port Sudan

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Sudan's shadow war: Drone strikes reveal escalating tensions between UAE and Turkey

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UAE sent Chinese weapons to Sudan despite embargo

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Sudan cuts ties with UAE as Port Sudan reels from drone strikes

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ICJ dismisses Sudan's case accusing UAE of complicity in genocide

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London conference on Sudan a 'diplomatic flop' as RSF declares parallel government

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Sudanese army accuses Libya's Haftar of joint border attack with RSF

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UK police handed dossier of war crimes committed by RSF in Sudan

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Activists call for UAE boycott over its backing for the RSF in Sudan

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UN report cites 'multiple flights' from UAE to Chad, possibly arms transfers to Sudan's RSF

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Israel attacks Iran: What do we know so far?

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'Popular Forces': Who are the Gaza gangsters being armed by Israel?

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Could David Cameron be prosecuted for threatening the ICC?

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Everything you need to know about the immigration protests in Los Angeles

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Has Israel manufactured a famine in Gaza?

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Persian or Arabian Gulf? A brief history

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How Israel's war on Gaza has cut Palestinian life expectancy

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How Unrwa school closures could damage the education of hundreds of Palestinian children

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'I have no business with genocidaires': Saul Williams on Gaza, US empire and power of art

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'I'm broken inside': A young journalist's painful story of leaving Gaza | Abubaker Abed

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Pakistani influencer on India, partition, and the language of 'dehumanisation' | Bilal Hassan

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I called out Microsoft's complicity in Gaza. They fired me | Vaniya Agrawal

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How does western media 'whitewash' genocide? | Assal Rad

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Cherien Dabis on 'Mo' and fighting the 'villain narrative' | Real Talk

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White supremacy & complicity: How the West enables Israel's war on Gaza | Pankaj Mishra

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Inside Trump's crackdown on Columbia University | Bruce Robbins

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How large parts of Israeli society have come to justify war crimes

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What exactly happened in Syria's 13-year civil war

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Azzam Tamimi on Yahya Sinwar's legacy, Israel and the likelihood of a regional war

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Joseph Massad: How Israel functions as an extension of US interests

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Jill Stein: The woman trying to upend the US political system

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Cornel West on his life and what inspired him to run for US president

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Andrew Feinstein: The anti-apartheid activist trying to stop Keir Starmer

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Mads Gilbert: The doctor who's witnessed Israel's wars against Palestinians since 1982

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An American surgeon in Gaza describes what he saw

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Netanyahu commits 'a bloodbath in Gaza' to save himself

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Hamas expects another war with Israel - this time in the West Bank

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Netanyahu's total victory narrative has collapsed

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The Muslim senator who took on Australia's government

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Palestinians must audition for 'our own humanity'

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The Syrian dream rises from the ashes of Assad's nightmare

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Trump's intrusive demons and Israel's 'enlightened cause'

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Americans 'socialised' into capitalism, racism and Zionism

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Jill Stein: 'The Democrats have no one to blame but themselves'

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Ilan Pappe on the birth of Israel and the death of Zionism

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'He was sent by God': Talking to Trump supporters about Israel

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The West made us pay for its guilt - and now watches as Israel delivers the final Nakba

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On Israel's fatal illusion in Syria

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Why Hamas will not surrender

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Why did UK media ignore Lammy's secret meeting with Israeli foreign minister?

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Israel has become like the Soviet Union in its dying days

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Gaza medic killings: How a voice from beyond the grave destroyed Israel's lie

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Red Crescent massacre: Palestinians are betrayed in a world ruled by outlaws

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Witkoff and Trump's Gaza dream has one thing missing: Palestinians

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Palestinian children are the future. That's why Israel is killing them

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Israel's Ramadan massacre obliterates any remaining western claims of moral leadership

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In Trump's new order, anyone can become Palestinian

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Why Trump's team is negotiating with Hamas

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Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced

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Trump's Gaza takeover plan is dead. Will he let Israel drag him into endless war?

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How Netanyahu's alliance with the far right could be Israel's undoing

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Cairo summit: US-Israeli rejection of the Arab Gaza plan is a moment of truth

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Syria must put an end to Israel's incursions - and fast

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