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Feb 13 2009 1:34PM
The Israeli elections: heads you lose, tails you lose

So who won? Like everyone else, I can only see deadlock and “a lurch to the right” in the super-close Israeli election results . I can’t pretend I’ve ever paid much attention to domestic Israeli politics (I haven’t always looked too...

Feb 13 2009 11:00AM
Love is a human right

Yes it’s that time of year again, you know when you’re meant to pull out all the stops and make an effort at love and romance. But, if like me you can’t bear the thought of sitting in a table for two only restaurant, with a crap...

Feb 12 2009 7:19PM
Time to boycott Israel?

Tuesday morning and I made it along to Stormont's Long Gallery for the launch of ICTU 's Israel Palestine report (available here to download , exclusively for Belfast and Beyond readers!). Hosted by Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams MP...

Feb 12 2009 3:15PM
have we been left in the dark? Public inquiries and the murder of Patrick Finucane

Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane was murdered at his home, in front of his wife and three kids, on 12 February 1989, twenty years ago today. Since then, compelling evidence has indicated that UK state agents were involved in the...

Feb 11 2009 5:17PM
Eat my chaddis man

What’s the proper response to nasty and violent attacks on women who were daring to go to a bar and drink with their friends? A demonstration? Letter writing campaign? Call for police investigations? Amnesty regularly uses all these...