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Roger Cohen: Hard Mideast Truths (New York Times)

For over a century now, Zionism and Arab nationalism have failed to find an accommodation in the Holy Land. Both movements attempted to fill the space left by collapsed empire, and it has been left to the quasi-empire, the United States, to try to coax them to peaceful coexistence. The attempt has failed. >

Stephen Walt: I don't mean to say I told you so, but... (Foreign Policy Blog)

Probably the most controversial claim in my work with John Mearsheimer on the Israel lobby is our argument that it played a key role in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003... This week, yet another piece of evidence surfaced that suggests we were right all along. In his testimony to the Iraq war commission in the U.K., former Prime Minister Tony Blair reveals that concerns about Israel were part of the equation and that Israel officials were involved in those discussions. >

Robert Fisk: The uninvited ghosts that populate Israel's art history (Belfast Telegraph)

The Palestinians celebrate their lost land with poetry and art, but always it is a place of lost oranges and olive trees and snug village houses; of Arab men, leaning on ancient wells beside classical ruins, proving that Palestine was not, as the popular Zionist narrative would have us believe, a land without people. >

Amira Howeidy: Mum's the word on Gaza probe (Al Ahram)

Is the UN preparing to bury the damning findings of the Goldstone Report on Israel's Gaza assault of one year ago? >

Isabel Kershner: Museum Creates New Jerusalem Divide (New York Times)

In a dispute that reflects the religious and political divides in this contested city, representatives of long-established Palestinian families petitioned the United Nations on Wednesday for help in trying to stop Israel and the Simon Wiesenthal Center from constructing a museum on part of a centuries-old Muslim cemetery. >

Saree Makdisi: A Museum of Tolerance we don't need (Los Angeles Times)

The Simon Wiesenthal Center should abandon its plan to build a facility on the site of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem. >

Jonathon Cook: Report: Israel stole $2 billion from Palestinian workers (Electronic Intifada)

A new report finds that Israel committed "theft" by deducting billions from Palestinian worker's salaries over the past four decades.>

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