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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel's PM is out to block peace in the Middle East, again

    Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has been very active in the last week in deploring the unity deal between Palestine’s two main parties, Hamas and Fatah. Netanyahu has even...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Syrian regime must go...now

    The gruesome images and horrifying accounts that keep coming from Syria defy linguistic description. They go beyond the pale of human decency. A few weeks ago, Hamza al Khatib,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Why June 5 matters

    I gasped as the first bullet struck a young man standing a few paces ahead of me. Watching him crumple to the ground, I struggled for breath and fought...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The return of Palestinian Egypt

    Egypt’s decision to reopen the Rafah border crossing with Gaza was anticipated; nevertheless its timing had significant political import. It was not just a positive undertaking on the border,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    When the people become the problem

    I have two observations on the current campaign against the result of the constitutional referendum led by loud voices among the political class; one on its form and the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israelis prepare to emigrate and Palestinians to Return?

    The number of Israelis thinking of leaving Palestine is climbing rapidly according to researchers, while many more, with actual millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing, prepare to exercise...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Decoded: Netanyahu's doctrine of "defensible" borders

    Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has destroyed any hope for peace in the Middle East in the short term. In his speech to the US Congress on the 24th...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Politics or the Drumbeats of War

    Will the political conflict in Syria turn into a military struggle?Following the historic flight of Tunisian President Bin Ali, Arabian Heads of State, in their last words to the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    End these settlers' attacks against our mosques and churches

    On Tuesday, 7 June, illegal Jewish settlers under the full protection of the Israeli army set fire to yet another mosque in the occupied West Bank, the fifth in...

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  • January 25, 2014

    A Palestinian state and the prospects for September

    The Palestinian Authority is banking on its diplomatic campaign, and the promises of support it has received from many countries, in order to achieve UN recognition of a Palestinian...

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