The idea that the Palestinian struggle for self-determination can be made to disappear and the question of Palestine removed from the global agenda has been given the lie yet again. Despite unprecedented regional turmoil, a global refugee crisis, and the best efforts of Israel and its western patrons to declare the Israeli-Palestinian conflict an insignificant sideshow until further notice, it is
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