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Gaza And Imperial Nostalgia

Michael Mansfield is a renowned British criminal lawyer and in an open letter to Nick Clegg, Britain’s new Deputy Prime Minister, in today’s Guardian he writes,

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The Gaza Crisis: Let’s Be Fair to Hamas

Daniel Levy has a piece here in which he analyses the latest events in Gaza. Though he makes a couple of decent points along the way, he falls into the trap of failing to treat Hamas with the respect and seriousness it deserves.

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The Mumbai Massacres And Imperialist States of Mind

The other day, just after the terrorist attack in Mumbai got underway, I thought about writing a very brief post along the lines of “How long will we have to wait before the first op-ed piece that tries to pin at least some of the ultimate blame for this on Israel?”. The answer turns out to be “Only a couple of days”.

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