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Frank Barat is a peace activist living in London. His articles have appeared on Counterpunch, Zmag, the Palestine Chronicle and other websites and publications. He recently directed "life under occupation" a 25 mins documentary about life in Nablus, occupied Palestine. His book of interviews between Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe is out now (in French). An English version should soon be available. He works for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine as a coordinator.

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Frank Barat remembers the fighter for justice, Bassem Abu Rahma, who was murdered last week by the IDF in the West Bank

Frank Barat explains the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.

Hamas’s Charter has been used as an excuse to terrorize the people of Gaza, but with a Likud victory looking likely in the new Israeli elections, will a blockade be put on Israel as the right-wing party has a Charter which doesn’t accept the right of Palestine to exist.

Much of the debate on the Israeli assault on Gaza has been around whether it was “legal” or not, but it was a blatant atrocity and we shouldn’t care whether establishment politicians deem it legal or not.

Israel doesn’t want peace and has worked studiously to avoid it coming about. The Western media needs to realize this before it’s too late.