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Iran–Israeli truce holds but war goes on

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

The skies over Tel Aviv and Tehran are unusually quiet this week as the cease-fire holds and secret talks with the Americans resume in renewed efforts to resolve the nuclear issue with Iran. Airports are re-opening, shares rise and oil prices are slipping on the global market following the end of what Donald Trump called the “12 Day War”. But the guns still blaze throughout occupied Palestine as Zionist settler gunmen go on the rampage in the West Bank and seven Israeli soldiers were killed and many more wounded in a resistance attack in the south of the Gaza Strip.

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by New Worker correspondent

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) thinks we should be grateful for the new Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill as almost four million households are to benefit from uprating of the Universal Credit standard rate, and that “more than 200,000 people with most severe, lifelong conditions to be protected from future reassessment for Universal Credit entitlement”. Others are not convinced. .

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Editorial

After the guns fall silent…

…real negotiations must begin – and not just on the thorny issue of Iran’s nuclear energy industry. The American-inspired truce that some say was brokered at Israel’s request may have put the Israeli–Iranian conflict on hold but it hasn’t stopped the fighting in Palestine. In occupied Palestine, Zionist gangs spread terror in the West Bank while the Palestinian resistance fights on against a brutal foe who kills scores of civilians every day in what is clearly an attempt to drive the Palestinian Arabs out of their Mediterranean enclave to make room for more Zionist settlement.

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