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May 5, 2014

America is torn between its own interests and Israeli demands

Like previous agreements, the Palestinian reconciliation deal has been described as “historic”. Officially, the damaging political split between Palestinians is over, but will this latest agreement be any better...

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May 5, 2014

The EU and Middle East democracy

Is there any difference between the forthcoming presidential elections in Egypt and Syria? The Europe Union apparently believes that there is. While the EU has dismissed the Syrian process...

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May 5, 2014

Britain's Brotherhood inquiry: Another blow to democracy?

A week after over 500 anti-coup protesters were sentenced to death by Field Marshall Abdul Fattah Al Sisi’s regime in Egypt, the British Prime Minister David Cameron has launched...

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May 5, 2014

Egypt's kangaroo court death sentences are truly grotesque

It was not just the numbers that shocked the world but the manner in which it was done, when Judge Saeed Yusuf Al-Jazzar took just two sittings to sentence...

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May 5, 2014

The demise of the GCC

The obituary was short and candid. We regret the passing of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC); may it rest in peace. Though terminally ill for some time, some of...

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May 5, 2014

This new axis to defeat the Brotherhood will go the way of the old

They originated in different capitals but all were linked by a common cause: Egypt’s proscription of Hamas “activities” on its territory; Israel’s announcement that it intercepted an Iranian ship...

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May 5, 2014

Egyptian regime surrenders last semblance of independent thought

Since the July 2013 coup Egypt’s judiciary has undergone a complete transformation. Once renowned as a pillar of justice, it has become a rubber stamp used by the military...

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May 5, 2014

The media needs to understand reality, not a general's dreams

Something remarkable happened in Egypt this week. The military junta that deposed the country’s first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, and is now putting him on trial for a plethora...

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May 5, 2014

Settlements give the game away; Israel wants all of the West Bank

Soon after the signing of the Wye River Agreement in 1998 Israel’s minister of infrastructure in the first Netanyahu government, the late, unlamented Ariel Sharon, urged settlers to “seize...

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May 5, 2014

As the military feathers its own nest, democracy can wait

The charges against deposed President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood co-defendants are a sad reminder of all that has gone wrong in Egypt since July last year. Those...

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