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		<title>Panorama – embedded with the IDF…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight was a mega-painful watch. I don&#8217;t know why I do it, but sometimes I&#8217;m a glutton for getting angry at the telly. I saw a few tweets from maydayblues which went a bit like this: &#8216;Impossible to fire a gun whilst absailing from a helicopter&#8217;. Tell that to Hollywood. #panorama about 3 hours ago [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2010/08/16/panorama-embedded-with-the-idf/</link>
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		<title>Why is Iran holding Pro-Palestinian activists?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Website: FreeOurFriends.eu It is almost a year since Iran detained my friends Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd (and their friend Josh). It demonstrates just how empty the Iranian government&#8217;s claim to defend Palestinian rights really is. Shane and Sarah &#8211; who were living in Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp at the time &#8211; have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2010/07/13/why-is-iran-holding-pro-palestinian-activists/</link>
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		<title>Oil and nationalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take two of the nastiest things around and you&#8217;re bound to get grim results. Nationalism and oil make for an unhappy world. When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill kicked off, everyone was happy to get stuck into BP. Fair enough. It was their obscene negligence in a relentless search for fossil fuel exploitation that caused [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2010/06/14/oil-and-nationalism/</link>
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		<title>One rule for some&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Private Eye shows there&#8217;s one rule for politicians and another for the rest of us. Refers to David Laws who resigned from government after fiddling expenses &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2010/06/10/one-rule-for-some/</link>
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		<title>Give Your Goat Vote!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog has been dormant for a while &#8211; partly because I&#8217;ve been working flat out on Give Your Vote. A few years back on this blog I floated the idea of Americans &#8216;giving their votes&#8217; to Iraqis so that they could have a say in the decisions that affect them. Well that never happened. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2010/06/10/give-your-goat-vote/</link>
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		<title>My friend Osama talks of the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid convoy</title>
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		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2010/06/07/my-friend-osama-talks-of-the-israeli-attack-on-the-gaza-aid-convoy/</link>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s Radical Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It happened nearly 65 years ago, in November 1945. After the signing of the UN Charter in San Francisco in June and the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan in August. Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, future Prime Minister Anthony Eden and Liberal leader Clement Davies all talk in Parliament about the need to rethink [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2009/09/01/britains-radical-moment/</link>
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		<title>Where is our parliamentary speaker?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the UK news is full of stories about John Bercow and his role as Speaker of the House of Commons, spare a thought for his opposite number in the Palestinian parliament: Aziz Duwek (pic above). Duwek was released today after nearly three years in Israeli prison. He was seized along with 40 others six [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2009/06/23/where-is-our-parliamentary-speaker/</link>
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		<title>How do we know the Iranian elections were rigged?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Highly Improbable Numbers The numbers. Official figures claim Ahmadinejad won 63% of the vote or 24.5M ballots cast. An extra 7M people are supposed to have voted for him since the second round of the last election when there was only one other candidate, Rafsanjani, another conservative. What has changed since the last election: In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2009/06/15/how-do-we-know-the-iranian-elections-were-rigged/</link>
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		<title>Heart of Darkness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some pictures from my past few days with Josh (and his Christian Peacemaker Team buddies) in the South Hebron Hills. All the pictures you see are taken on the Palestinian side of the so-called &#8216;Green Line&#8217;. Have a look at this UN map (2 Megs) to see the area (south of Hebron). The map also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfiranian.com/2008/05/19/heart-of-darkness/</link>
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