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January 15, 2016

As social mobilisation increases, will it burn the Moroccan government?

The pre-2015 local election atmosphere is back in Morocco. A year-long campaign of criticism targeted the PJD-led government in stiff electoral competition in the run up to the 4...

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January 15, 2016

Abbas commits to more negotiations while violence escalates

In his first speech of 2016, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas reviewed the situation facing the Palestinians and set out his approach for the forthcoming year. He started...

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January 15, 2016

EU to demand Israel pay for damages following demolition of Palestinian homes

The head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s European Organisation department, Avivit Bar Ilan, said: “We are aware that the EU is considering requesting compensation from Israel for the destruction...

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January 15, 2016

Former Iranian envoy accuses Tehran of ‘sectarianism’

A former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday accused Tehran of promoting sectarianism and seeking to destabilize the Middle East through subverting governments and funding Shia militancy....

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January 15, 2016

Germany sets up Peshmerga training centre in Erbil

A German military delegation and Kurdish military officials yesterday participated in laying the foundation for a military training centre near Erbil, Iraq, to train Peshmerga forces, Turkey’s Anadolu Agency...

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January 15, 2016

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: We have armed 200,000 fighters in the region

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have equipped nearly 200,000 young men with arms in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, in order to face terrorism, General Commander Major General...

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January 15, 2016

Shin Bet evidence proposal confirms official ambivalence towards detainees’ rights

Citing the redundant, yet still macabre metaphor of the “war on terror”, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, has requested amendments to the law which would allow for evidence...

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January 15, 2016

Buyer beware: Israeli spy tools may be spying right back

Last month I wrote about Israel’s high-tech industry and how integrated it is with with state intelligence and military agencies. Top figures in the same agencies that systematically spy...

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January 14, 2016

PA hails Swedish calls to probe Israeli crimes

The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Wednesday hailed the Swedish Foreign Minister’s response to the large number of Palestinian deaths, calling her “humane and courageous”. Israel has summoned the Swedish...

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January 14, 2016

Expelling the Palestinians from Lebanon: a systematic policy

The crisis has resurfaced once again after the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reduced its health services in Lebanon. Now...

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