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The power network
Publicly, Israel will not do business with those who do not recognise it. But behind the scenes is a complex web of international contacts
The great betrayal
The issue of Israel has become a terrible fault line on the British left but liberal opinion may soon be forced to change
Home away from home
On a visit to his village in Egypt, Sam Alexandroni finds he can't even count all his new-found relatives
Just give peace a chance?
The Second World War was wrong and avoidable, argues Nicholson Baker, and through the criminal belligerence of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt brought catastrophe and death to tens of millions
The view from inside Burma
Save The Children child protection advisor Katy Barnett is one of the few foreign aid workers to have been able to operate in Burma. Here she reports for newstatesman.com about the work she is doing in the wake of the cyclone
India's transgendered - the Hijras
With more than 4,000 years of recorded history Hijras have a supposedly sanctioned place in Indian life, but they've faced severe harassment. Are things changing?
Serbia's European dawn
Sunday's vote reflected a public backlash against the muscular politics of the past with the nationalists' defeat seen as the death of Milosevic's Serbia
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Israel's secret fears
The nation that sees itself as the most misunderstood in the world celebrates its 60th birthday with deep apprehension about the future. Haim Baram finds anger and defensiveness among its politicians A deeply hidden diplomatic relationship between Israel and Jordan underpins the history of the search for peace in the Middle East
Talking to the enemy
A deeply hidden diplomatic relationship between Israel and Jordan underpins the history of the search for peace in the Middle East
The Mark Thomas Postcard
Human Writes
Comedian Mark Thomas urges you to take up your pens in protest
