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      Jonathan Cook

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      Jonathan Cook is a Palestine columnist for The National

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      Abu Arab, a refugee from the destroyed Palestinian village of Saffuriya, stands in front of homes being built for Jews on land that was once his parents.
      Israel sells off refugees' hopes

      Palestinian refugees lose hope on reclaiming their homes in Tzipori after the new land reform imposed by the Israeli government.

      August 14, 2009
      Jewish mother sued for 'racist incitement' against Arab child

      An Arab couple whose one-year-old daughter was expelled from an Israeli day-care centre on her first day are suing a Jewish mother for damages.

      August 09, 2009
      Olga Samsovatov and Nico Tarosyan at their symbolic public wedding ceremony held because Mr Tarosyan cannot legally marry in Israel.
      Russian Jews defy Israeli rabbis' ban on marriage

      Up to 350,000 immigrants who say they are Jewish have been told they cannot marry in Israel.

      August 06, 2009
      Jeff Halper. co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
      Israel targets human rights groups

      The Israeli government launches a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad.

      August 04, 2009
      From his balcony, Geoffrey Goodman can see his neighbours in Tarshiha, who he says have been making his life a misery.
      Israelis go to war with a new weapon - Beethoven

      Communities in combat over neighbourhood din as wedding celebrations prompt response of classical music at ultra-high volumes.

      August 02, 2009
      Israeli anthem kits in Arab schools

      A leading Arab educator describes the decision of the education minister to require schools to study the Israeli national anthem as "a kind of attempted rape" of the country's one-in-four Arab pupils.

      July 27, 2009
      Open city housing is a closed shop

      No one would have been more surprised than Fawziya Khurd by the recent pronouncement of Benjamin Netanyahu.

      UAEJuly 23, 2009
      Israel deploys cyber team to spread positive spin

      The Israeli government has recruited youths to spread positive news about the country while posing as ordinary web surfers.

      July 21, 2009
      A road sign to Jerusalem reads "Yerushalayim" in Hebraic script on top with "Yerushalayim (al-Quds)" in Arabic below it and the English spelling at the bottom.
      Israel to drop Arabic names

      Road signs are the latest front in Israel's battle to erase the Arab heritage from much of the Holy Land, according to critics.

      July 17, 2009
      Mohamed Larool, a melon seller, is one of many small stall-holders in Jenin's main market.
      Netanyahu's substitute for sovereignty

      Israel's prime minister hopes to persuade Palestinians seeking statehood to settle instead for 'economic and diplomatic peace'.

      July 15, 2009
      Construction on the costly barrier has stalled as violence, increasingly seen as futile, ebbed.
      Achieving two states without a solution

      Comment: Israel has been quietly assembling a framework for handing over a battered Gaza and West Bank without surrendering real control.

      July 09, 2009
      Israel's housing minister plans to create a special town in the country's north for ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredim.
      Minister calls for housing partition

      Controversial plans to create an ultra-Orthodox Jewish town in the north of Israel are part of a plan to prevent an 'Arab takeover' of region.

      July 06, 2009
      Some of the dozens of Palestinians detained for questioning during an incursion into the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army in April last year.
      Israeli doctors accused of flouting ethics

      Human rights and medical organisations allege that physicians are colluding in the abuse of prisoners by failing to report cases.

      June 29, 2009
      People walk past a Tel Aviv branch of Bank Leumi, which is accused of withholding deposits from families of victims of the Holocaust.
      Israeli firms accused of profiting from the Holocaust

      Case claiming a bank is withholding tens of millions of dollars from families of people killed by the Nazis may just be the tip of an iceberg.

      June 25, 2009
      Plaques honouring donors have been fixed in Canada Park to stone walls made from the rubble of Palestinian homes destroyed during the 1967 war.
      Canadian ambassador honoured at illegal park

      The Jewish diplomat and family members are commemorated at a dedication site built on the rubble of three destroyed Palestinian villages.

      June 18, 2009
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