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      Jonathan Cook

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      Jonathan Cook is a Palestine columnist for The National

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      A Palestinian farmer and his children head toward a gate in an Israeli separation barrier to reach their land near the West Bank town of Qalqilya.
      Palestinian village turning into 'ghetto'

      Separation wall threatens to isolate town from much of its agricultural land and its factories from their markets.

      November 10, 2008
      Hatam Abdl Qader, an adviser on Jerusalem affairs to the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, prays at a grave in the ancient Mamilla cemetery, which could become the site of a Museum of Tolerance.
      Travesty of tolerance on exhibit

      Israel seems to have little time for the irony that a modern Jewish shrine to "coexistence and tolerance" is being built on the graves of the city's Muslim forefathers.

      November 04, 2008
      Israelis chant anti-Arab slogans during a protest in the mixed northern Israeli city of Acre, on 10 Oct 2008.
      Model city of harmony overcome by hatred

      Israel has been suffering its worst bout of communal violence since the start of the second intifada.

      October 15, 2008
      Something is brewing in Palestine

      Taybeh hopes to export what it is calling a "non-alcoholic beverage", modelled on its popular Golden Taybeh beer.

      October 12, 2008
      Another battle - this time on felafel

      The Lebanese Industrialists Association is preparing a case accusing Israel of stealing Lebanon's trademark foods.

      October 09, 2008
      Book refuting Jewish taboo on Israel's bestseller list

      Writer argues Zionist Jews created a national history by inventing the idea that their sect existed as people separate from their religion.

      October 06, 2008
      Young Jewish settlers hurl stones at Israeli soldiers during street clashes in the West Bank town of Hebron.
      Officer lambasts rising Jewish extremism

      The Israeli army officer in charge of the occupation of the West Bank condemns extremist Jewish settlers.

      October 02, 2008
      Jawad Siyam says 88 homes in the Bustan neighbourhood of Silwan, seen in the background, face demolition threat.
      Israel uses 'bad science' to justify occupation

      With funding from secret backers, a shadowy organisation has transformed Silwan using 'bogus archaeology'.

      September 25, 2008
      The bustling streets of Jaffa.
      Jaffa 'renewal plan' aims at eviction

      In bid to make way for Jewish investors, an Israeli firm issued removal orders to 497 families threatening to make 3,000 homeless.

      September 14, 2008
      Palestinians compelled to 'favour' Israel

      Recent reports in the Israeli media, for example, suggest that the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, far from reducing the opportunities for collaboration, may actually have increased them.

      September 11, 2008
      A man walks by graffiti that equates fashion with promiscuity on the walls of the Jewish ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, east of Tel Aviv.
      Israeli women fear writing on the wall

      "Fashion equals promiscuity", for women in some Israeli communities, such sentiments are a warning, and one that is increasingly backed by threats of physical violence.

      September 08, 2008
      Salam Amira stands by the window where she filmed a bound and blindfolded Palestinian being shot by an Israeli soldier. The roadblock is seen at a distance.
      Israeli army targets family over brutality film

      'Trigger happy' soldiers unleashed atrocities on villagers who were staging non-violent protests against a barrier across their land.

      September 01, 2008
      A Palestinian boy watches over camels in front of a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
      Growth in the land of contradictions

      Comment Today's West Bank is a land of one set of rules for Palestinians and another for Jewish settlers, writes Jonathan Cook.

      August 31, 2008
      Yehudit Genud, left, believes Israel's refusal to turn Migron into an authorised settlement reflects pressure from the United States.
      'Illegal' settlements squeeze borders

      Jewish settlers refuse to give up what they say is their rightful land as Israel has been slow on its promise in 2003 to dismantle the outposts

      August 24, 2008
      Abdul Rahman Kayyal, who lost his home during an Israeli incursion, stands at the cemetery in al Birwa.
      Poet's village lives only in memory

      Darwish will be laid to rest in Ramallah. The cemetery where the writer wished to be buried is under Jewish control.

      August 12, 2008
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