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July 28, 2016

Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces join army ranks

Iraq’s Shia Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) has been incorporated into the country’s security forces following a decision by Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi, a government official said. Al-Abadi’s spokesman, Saad...

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July 28, 2016

Amnesty International’s priority suffering of coup plotters

On the night of July 15, 2016, Turkey faced an unusual coup attempt never before experienced in the political history of the world. How the coup attempt played out...

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July 28, 2016

The BICOM guide to defending Netanyahu’s Israel

Earlier this year, I took a look at a booklet by the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) called ‘The Apartheid Smear’, authored by staffer Alan Johnson. Intended...

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July 28, 2016

Rights Group: 5,188 civilians killed in five months in Syria

Some 5,188 civilians have been killed in Syria since the announcement of a cessation of hostilities in the country five months ago, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said...

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July 28, 2016

PA cuts 80% of tax on fuel for Gaza’s electricity plant

The Works and Housing Minister at the Palestinian Authority, Mofeed Al-Hasayneh, has announced that the ministerial council in Ramallah has agreed to cut 80 per cent of the tax...

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July 28, 2016

Experts unite to say that it is an ‘abuse’ to invoke ‘self-defence’ in response to terrorism

A collective open letter has been signed by many professors of international law and legal researchers. Entitled “A plea against the abusive invocation of self-defence as a response to...

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July 28, 2016

‘Us vs. them’ is not ‘Islam vs. the West’

So far, the summer of 2016 feels a bit like we’re all strapped into the world’s most hectic roller coaster. An unexpected referendum result here is followed by an...

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July 28, 2016

PA calls on UK to apologise for Balfour Declaration

The Palestinian Authority yesterday called on the United Kingdom to apologise as a “first step to uplift the historical oppression laid on the Palestinians due to the 1917 Balfour...

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July 28, 2016

Normalising Israel despite blatant human rights violations

As with other UN Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Michael Lynk’s first experience in attempting to reach the region...

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July 28, 2016

Israel’s Arab Spring

Recent signs point to a “positive boom” when it comes to the relationship between Israel and the Arab world, enough to require Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to mention...

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