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Balhaf: The Oil Port Where UAE Loots Yemen and Imprisons and Tortures Yemenis

The UAE has not only prevented Yemenis from exporting their own natural gas from Balhaf and forcefully laid off hundreds of employees, it has converted the sprawling industrial complex into a private military camp and secret prison.
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US on Homesh Attack: Use of Force in Self-Defense is Only for Israelis, Not for Palestinians

The term “illegal” Jewish settlement leads one to believe that somewhere out there are “legal” Jewish settlements and the question that begs to be asked is “Where?” Where are there Jewish settlements in Palestine that are legal? 
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Visit by US Official Divides Israeli Right Over What Constitutes “Settler Violence”

A new storm brewed after Israel’s Interior Security Minister met with the U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. In a tweet he posted after the meeting, Barlev said that the senior U.S. official was "interested, among other things, in the settler violence.”
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Manufacturing Contempt for Assange: How the Media Made WikiLeaks Founder into a Scapegoat

The Guardian was one of WikiLeaks's partner organizations, being fed bombshell after bombshell, revelations that helped build its brand and its audience. Yet, far from standing up for free speech and an open society, it was in the lead in attacking WikiLeaks and its founder.
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Biden Admin’s Reluctance to Spend Geopolitical Capital Greenlights Israeli Settlement Push

“No U.S. administration wants to be perceived as picking 10 fights every day with Israel, even if Israel is engaging every day in 10 things that really demand a response from the U.S.” – Lara Friedman, Foundation for Middle East Peace
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On ‘Gassing the Arabs’ and Other Diseases: Is Israel a ‘Sick Society’?

There are no indications that Israeli society, government and media - ‘liberal’ or right-wing - will, on their own, develop the necessary antibodies that will cure the disease of racism, military occupation and apartheid.
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