As before, however, any such move into the country would be fraught with the same risks that have bedeviled past Israeli invasions of Lebanon.
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For almost 80 years, Palestinians in Gaza have resisted proposals to resettle elsewhere.
The US is among more than a dozen countries to freeze funding to UN agency providing aid to displaced Gazans over allegations of complicity in the Oct. 7 attack.
A historian of the Middle East examines the decades-old ‘special relationship’ between Israel and the US.
The slogan has been attacked as ‘antisemitic’ and defended as a ‘call for freedom.’ Behind the controversy is decades of usage.
A scholar who has studied Palestinian refugees for 20 years explains the history of their displacement and the stakes involved for those living in an indefinite exile.
For Jewish people, Hamas’ violence against children was reminiscent of the Holocaust. For Palestinians, The Israel Defense Force’s killing their children reminds them of a painful past, too.
Australia should recognise the state of Palestine. The legal, moral and political arguments are compelling.
Generations of Palestinian writers and poets have expressed their feelings of grief and loss.
Many in the West are unaware of the displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians in 1947-8
The village of Lajjun, near Nazareth, which was destroyed in 1948 to make room for a kibbutz is a microcosm of the catastrophe that still affects Palestinians 75 years later.
A series of poor decisions in the face of Jewish manoeuvring led to the end of the British mandate in Palestine and the creation of the Israeli state.
British media coverage of the creation of the state of Israel reflected the concerns of the government at the time.
Israel may no longer be a fledgling state – but it has yet to overcome the basic contradiction that has defined it from the very beginning.
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Associate Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
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Rhoda and Richard Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Memphis
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Distinguished Honorary Professor, Australian National University
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Fellow for the Middle East, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
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Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies, University of Westminster
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Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Cultural Relations, American University School of International Service
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Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University
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Senior Lecturer in International Security, Brunel University of London
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Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Principal of South College, Durham University
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Professor, Political Communication and Arab Media, SOAS, University of London
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Director of Dickinson Program in New Zealand & Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Otago, Dickinson College