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  • January 23, 2014

    An unfair deal, not a liberation operation

    The release of 26 Palestinians from Israeli jails could have been an event free of criticism and reservations if it was not part of a deal that included making...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Democracy in Palestine has to be made in America

    In democracies all over the world elections form the backbone of the state. International observers are used to ensure that elections in fledging democratic states are free and fair....

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  • January 23, 2014

    The coup set fire to Egypt but who will put it out?

    The coup leaders’ decision to take the bloody option in their confrontation against constitutional legitimacy will not defeat the Muslim Brotherhood; it will drag Egypt into a civil war....

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  • January 23, 2014

    When will the coup's media announce the suicide of President Morsi?

    “One thing leads to another”, the military coup leaders in Egypt have been hoping that this motto will fall into place since they ended the era of ‘coup free...

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  • January 23, 2014

    UN Secretary General seeks to appease Israel

    The latest meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on August 16 elicited very weak criticism of Israel’s continued occupation of...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Egyptian prisoners gassed to death in an increasingly grisly war

    These days, as the sun rises over Egypt it brings with it death, violence and arrests. On Sunday it brought with it an episode worse than your darkest nightmares....

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  • January 23, 2014

    Pharaoh Al-Sisi - the Emperor with no clothes

    News that Egyptian courts have ordered the release of former president Hosni Mubarak demonstrated that the regime has removed its final fig leaf, the emperor revealed with no clothes....

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  • January 23, 2014

    Political stupidity prevails

    The coup leaders lost their minds and their insight the day they conspired against legitimacy, captured the elected president, Mohammed Morsi, and carried out a bloody military coup on...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Western public oppose military intervention in Syria

    Last Wednesday opposition activists in Syria reported over 1,000 dead after a gruesome attack in which rockets with chemical weapons were launched into the Ghouta area of Damascus. Doctors...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Russia protestations unlikely to impact on plans for Syria

    According to this morning’s newspapers, the US and UK are finalising plans for a military strike on Syria. The attack is a response to the alleged use of chemical...

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