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TENSIONS have continued to escalate between Israel and Syria after Tel Aviv mobilised tanks to their border in the occupied Golan Heights.
Damascus branded this as an act of provocation.
Tuesday’s Israeli deployment came after Syria vowed to reclaim territory seized during the 1967 six-day war, during which Israeli forces also occupied the Palestinian-populated West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
