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September 8, 2014

Netanyahu government funding West Bank settlements at expense of other Israeli communities

PM Netanyahu’s government is channelling funds to West Bank settlements at the expense of communities inside the pre-1967 lines, a new report has revealed. The Israeli government transfers hundreds...

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September 8, 2014

For Israel, the beginning of wisdom is to admit its mistakes

Israel has a habit of justifying its actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, however illegal and indecent, in the name of security. But denying any security to the other...

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September 8, 2014

Shtayyeh calls on Europe to ‘freeze’ partnership agreement with Israel

The head of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR), Mohammad Shtayyeh, has called on European countries to freeze the EU-Israel Association agreement if Israel continues its aggression...

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September 8, 2014

Kuwait feeling the heat over terror financing

Later this month Kuwait is in the dock once more on terror financing. The Financial Action Task Force, a group of super-hero accountants, will be reviewing financial regulations and...

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September 7, 2014

Iraq’s president: We need international support but not ground intervention against ISIS

The Iraqi president Fuad Masum said that his country does not need ground intervention in Iraq to defeat ISIS, but what it needs is international support. “If there is...

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September 7, 2014

Israel detains Palestinian journalists

Israeli security forces have detained twelve Palestinian journalists, a human rights organisation specialising in prisoners’ affairs has claimed. The Palestine Prisoners’ Centre for Studies made the claim in a...

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September 7, 2014

Israel war leaves thousands of Gaza vehicles destroyed

Israel’s recently-ended offensive on the Gaza Strip resulted in a 30-million-dollars loss in the enclave’s transportation sector, the Palestinian government said on Sunday. Yasser al-Shanti, a spokesman for the...

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September 7, 2014

Ghannouchi: We reject foreign intervention in Libya

The Tunisian Nahda movement said it rejects any foreign intervention in Libya and called on rival Libyan troops to unite and renounce violence. The leader of Nahda, Rashid Al-Ghannouchi,...

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September 7, 2014

New crisis sweeps Netanyahu’s coalition

A new crisis is sweeping Israel’s Prime Minister; Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government as several members in his ruling Likud party have called to break the partnership with the Yesh...

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September 6, 2014

Jacob Zuma’s special envoy to Gaza, Aziz Pahad, on Hamas, military intervention and BDS

“I don’t think we have a magic wand to solve the problem but I think as part of the AU we can make an effective contribution as Africans, as...

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