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Items by Mohammad Ayesh
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Prisoners: Continued perseverance and the need for solidarity
When this article is published in Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, the Palestinian prisoners will have completed an entire month on hunger strike. They are surviving on water and salt alone. The Palestinian people will have also completed 69 years waiting for UN Resolution 194 stipulating the return of Palestinian refugees...
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The horrific church bombings and how to combat the wave of terrorism
The horrific bloody bombings that targeted innocent civilian Christians who were at the height of their sanctity in Egypt, brings the phenomenon of blind terrorism and indiscriminate killings witnessed by the Arab region back to the surface. Such a phenomenon is unprecedented in quantity or quality, as the nation...
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Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are suffering in Jordan
Every Palestinian of Gazan origin residing in Jordan must pay $300 every two years to renew their temporary passport. This is instead of the $35 fee that they used to pay. Possessing a temporary Jordanian passport now costs $150 a year, or $13 a month, which is roughly equivalent...
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Palestinians abroad and their important role in the national project
Some Palestinians assume that the resolution of the conflict with the Israeli occupation must be by force alone and that we are facing a battle in the traditional and superficial sense. Based on this belief, if power alone is available, then the battle can be resolved, the balances of...
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Egyptian differences and the anniversary of the January Revolution
For the third year in a row, Egypt’s revolutionary forces are preoccupied by suspicious internal differences that tend to appear just weeks before each anniversary of the 2011 January Revolution. This is the season of calls for the renewal of the revolution in Egypt, a time that the post-revolution...
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Tunisia, victims of tyranny and the need to account
The testimonies delivered publicly for the first time by victims of the regime of tyranny in Tunisia reveal an “underworld” in the Arab world that is not spoken of and is known to few. It also reveals the magnitude of organised crime that some Arab regimes practice against their...
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What are the implications of floating the Egyptian pound?
The Central Bank in Egypt had no other option but to move the Egyptian pound to a free market exchange rate with other currencies. The alternative was to lower its price voluntarily while maintaining the black market and being unable to secure required hard foreign currency reserves. Thus, a...
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Elections in Palestine are meaningless
The elections which are due to take place at the start of October in the Palestinian territories are meaningless. There is no need for these elections because they are taking place between two sides for which these elections hold absolutely no meaning, no flavour or significance. On the contrary,...