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  • January 24, 2014

    Herzliya Conference outlines Israeli concerns

    This year’s Herzliya Conference in Israel was held amid the state’s fears of the rapid political changes in the region. This prompted the organisers to invite many Israeli officials...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Israel's impunity and its culture of torture

    The recognition of torture in Israeli prisons is subject to a host of narratives, entrenching it within a distinct, yet hidden realm. Since the start of Israel’s illegal occupation,...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The proxy war destroying Syria

    Writing about Syria is emotionally draining and intellectually overwhelming. Evident by the level of destruction and killing, the mutual hatred between President Bashar Al Assad’s regime and the armed...

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  • January 24, 2014

    This year's Land Day serves as a reminder of the on-going ethnic cleansing

    On 30 March, Palestinians around the world will commemorate Land Day. It marks a day in 1976, when Israeli security forces shot dead six Palestinians and injured around 100...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The Arab-Israeli conflict needs to retake centre stage

    There is an ongoing discussion in the media and social media about the Arab-Israeli conflict going back to centre stage in the Arab world. What’s new is that the...

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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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