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  • January 24, 2014

    The significance of Land Day

    Exactly thirty-seven years ago, on 30th March 1976, the people of Palestine rose up against Israel’s occupation of their land. After 28 years of living under curfews and restrictions...

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  • January 24, 2014

    A profession in danger

    A group of young journalists, men and women, visited me recently to complain about the pressure that is exerted on them by their editors, particularly in the privately-owned newspapers....

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  • January 24, 2014

    Ideological rigidity and political realism

    I attended two meetings this week in Gaza which were also attended by Wadah Khanfar, the former director general of Al-Jazeera, Basheer Nafi, of Al-Jazeera Centre for Studies and...

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  • January 24, 2014

    What is Abbas cooking up with Jordan?

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas surprised us by flying to Amman and signing an agreement that stipulates that Jordan’s King Abdullah is the protector of the holy sites in Jerusalem...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Why are so many Israelis rushing to leave the "promised land"?

    The average annual income for an Israeli citizen is $19,000, which is 17 times greater than that of Palestinian in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel...

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  • January 24, 2014

    A critical look at Zionist education and racism

    Zionist narrative expects Israeli children to be imbued with a false sense of nationalism which is instrumental to the preservation of its illegally-acquired land. This abstract narrative, incorporating the...

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  • January 24, 2014

    How do we explain US policies in the Middle East?

    Barak Obama’s visit to the Middle East did nothing to revive the moribund peace process; nor did he try to halt Israel’s illegal settlement programme. In fact, the US...

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  • January 24, 2014

    US aid: an opiate for Palestinians

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a $3.9 billion national budget for the 2013 fiscal year just one day before the March 31 deadline. The budget was approved without the...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Freedom of expression has limits in a responsible society

    The media has played a vital role in the Arab Spring, from social networks to TV stations. It would be foolish to think otherwise, but if the media was...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Hamas needs to build a broader political future in Egypt

    It is no secret that Hamas was happy for Dr. Mohammad Morsi to win the Egyptian presidential elections. The source of most of its regional strength lies in Cairo,...

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