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Middle East: Tightening the screw
JOHN HAYLETT on how the Israeli PM is using the disappearance of three teenagers as a pretext to apply pressure on Hamas
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded once more last week that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas end his unity agreement with Islamist resistance group Hamas.
His latest appeal followed the identification by the Shin Bet security service on Thursday of two well-known Hamas supporters as prime suspects in the case of three Israeli teenagers missing on the occupied West Bank.
The men, Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisheh, are from Hebron and have both served time in Israeli prisons.
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