International Features

Slumdogs and Revolution

The film Slumdog Millionaire after already having won several international awards has gone on to win no less than eight Oscars. No film, it appears, has ever provoked so sensational an international response as this one. What on earth is all this about? The question arises because on the surface it seems to be no more than an average rags-to-riches …

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UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza

The following speech by Sir. Gerald Kaufman httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGuYjt6CP8 I was brought up as an orthodox Jew and a Zionist. On a shelf in our kitchen, there was a tin box for the Jewish National Fund, into which we put coins to help the pioneers building a Jewish presence in Palestine. I first went to Israel in 1961 and I have …

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Hamlet without prince of Palestine

PRINCE OF PALESTINE WAS DULY ELECTED BY THE PALESTINIANS, PERHAPS IN A BEST ELECTION EVER HELD IN ARAB WORLD. THERE WAS NO VIOLENCE, RIGGING, AND ABSOLUTE TRANSPARENCY. THE END RESULT THEY WERE DECLARED  ” TERRORISTS”. NOW  WE KNOW ANY DEMOCRACY TO SUCCEED IN THE ARAB WORLD IT HAS TO BE MADE IN USISRAEL. George Mitchell is facing a daunting task, …

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Ban and UN must recognize the Palestinians’ right to resist

At last, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon seems to be doing what he is expected to do. After more than one thousand Palestinians have died, one third of them children, Ban is taking some measures, which he should have taken the very first day Israel launched its barbaric attack on the defenceless Palestinian people in Gaza. His delayed action …

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