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The tormented birth of the Palestinian national unity government could mark a truly new phase in the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.

As could have been expected, the Israeli political system moved to the right as a result of the last Lebanon war.

Review of 'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine', Ilan Pappe, Oneworld Publications £16.99

An international campaign for Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel is growing rapidly.

Talk of an Israel lobby lets capitalism off the hook.

The first Palestinian election since 1996 has been greeted with a great international fanfare of publicity and a groundswell of expectations that it will usher in a new era of peace and stability, the attack on the Israeli checkpoint of Karni notwithstanding.

Two events in the last week of October threw the contradictory relationship between the Palestinian and Israeli leaderships into sharp relief.

Palestinian activists speak to Anne Ashford about their strategies to end the current occupation.

John Rose, author of a new book on Israel, spoke to Simon Assaf about the roots of Zionism and the Palestinian struggle today.

Up to 7,600 Palestinian political prisoners in four different prisons have begun an open-ended hunger strike in protest against the appalling conditions of their detention.

On a recent visit to Israel I learnt a lot about the movements of solidarity by many Israelis for the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.

It was confirmed recently that US military commanders travelled to Israel In January this year to learn about urban warfare from the Israeli Defence Force (IDF).