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May 26, 2015

US replenishes Israel’s arsenal with $1.9 billion in new weapons

Last week the US State Department approved almost $1.9 billion in new weapons for Israel. The approval came just weeks after the Israeli rights group Breaking the Silence collected...

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May 26, 2015

Cameron and Netanyahu move both new governments further to the right

On 6 May, just hours before the constitutional deadline, Benjamin Netanyahu assembled a shaky coalition government after heated negotiations with potential partners. The final agreement put together a cabinet...

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May 26, 2015

Israel blocks repair of electricity lines to Gaza

The Palestinian electricity distribution company in the Gaza Strip has said that the Israeli authorities are refusing to allow the repair of the main power line feeding the enclave....

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May 26, 2015

Egypt summons Pakistan envoy over death sentences rebuke

Egypt has summoned Pakistan’s charge d’affaires in Cairo to express its displeasure with Islamabad’s criticism of a recent raft of death sentences handed out by Egyptian courts. In a...

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May 26, 2015

PLO: Prisoners in Israel ‘on verge of exploding’

The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) warned today that Palestinian prisoners currently held by Israel were “on the verge of exploding” as a result of maltreatment at the hands of...

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May 26, 2015

Obama’s dilemma over Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel

No one denies that since the beginning of the crisis over its nuclear programme, Iran has been successful in breaking the US-Israeli rules for the Middle East. Throughout the...

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May 26, 2015

A planned EU military deployment in Libya is ‘delusional’

I have just published a short expose for Newsweek, in which a British government adviser called the European Union plan to deploy force against people traffickers along the Libyan...

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May 26, 2015

Second senior Brotherhood official dies in prison

Senior Muslim Brotherhood official and former parliamentarian Mohamed Falahji, 58, died in an Egyptian prison on Monday morning, Quds Press has reported. Falahji is the second top leader of...

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May 26, 2015

Israel jails Palestinian parliamentary speaker for a year

The Israeli military court in Ofer Prison sentenced the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) to a year in prison on Monday. Aziz Dweik was also fined $1,500,...

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May 26, 2015

Likud member named Israel public security minister

The Israeli cabinet has approved the appointment of senior Likud Party member Gilad Erdan as minister of public security, strategic affairs and public diplomacy, Israel’s public radio reported yesterday....

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