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  The Politics of Silencing Debate
  Israel: a contemporary ghetto
"The wall (see map) that will soon enclose 40% of the West Bank is meant to decide the future of the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel on the ground. But the enclosures will be fragmentary, and access to and from them completely controlled by Israel, which no longer even needs the Palestinians as a cheap and convenient labour resource."
 
  Children's author faces Jewish wrath
Tale of boy's life in West Bank prompts pressure groups to call for withdrawal
 
 
 
 
Recently, the golden rule of "don't-criticise-Israel" has been invoked here in Australia and directed at ‘errant’ members of the ALP. Maher Mughrabi examines the pheonomenon of "silencing the debate" at any cost, even at the cost of democracy and freedom of speech, if there's a possibility of Israel being criticised.
 
   
 
  Just don't mention the Wall!
 
 
One could be forgiven for thinking the Israelis deserve some credit. Not because they are the longest military occupiers of another people’s land; nor because they defy international law. No, the Israelis deserve credit because, despite all of this, they continue to present aggressor as victim, cause as effect, ‘wall’ as ‘fence’.
 
   
 
  How the truce was broken
 
 
Timeline: How the truce declared in late July was broken.
       
 
  Dreams and delusions
 
 
Meanings are not imposed from one culture on to another any more than one language and one culture alone possesses the secret of how to get things done efficiently, writes Edward Said
       
 
  A land without Arabs
 
 
Israel's policy of land grab turns viable neighbourhoods into ghost towns. Jerry Levin* writes from Hebron
         
       
 

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