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What is the plan?
Former U.S. Ambassador Charles Freeman questions the true intentions of Israel's renewed bombing of Gaza.
Palestinian Icon Hanan Ashrawi
Lies and impunity paved the way for the worst time in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hanan Ashrawi says Gaza is “worse than even the Nakba, because it is a willful, deliberate, total genocide”.
Harvard's Prof. Stephen Walt on the political fallout from the War in Gaza
Stephen Walt is an American political scientist currently a Professor of International relations at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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