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February 17, 2014

Writers prompted to condemn discrimination against African migrants in Israel

African migrants have been enduring serious racial discrimination in Israel, prompting Israeli writers to send a letter to the country’s Prime Minister. The signatories urged Benjamin Netanyahu to take...

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February 17, 2014

Security portfolio hinders Palestinian reconciliation

The moves towards national reconciliation between the two main Palestinian movements of Fatah and Hamas are deadlocked because of complications arising out of the security portfolio, special sources have...

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February 17, 2014

PA President says peace process is “clinically dead”

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has insisted that the peace process with Israel is “clinically dead”, a situation for which he blames the Israelis. “The ball is now in...

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February 17, 2014

Palestinian delegation heads to the Vatican to discuss stance on Church-owned properties in Jerusalem

A high-ranking Palestinian delegation is heading to the Vatican to hold talks with the Holy See on the legal status of property owned by the Catholic Church in the...

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February 17, 2014

Israeli navy detains Palestinian fishermen

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Israeli navy has detained four Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza coast, capturing their boat and taking them to an undisclosed location. Witnesses said that the Israeli...

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February 17, 2014

Proposal to ban student activities incompatible with Israel’s Jewish character

Hebrew media sources have revealed moves in the Israeli parliament (Knesset) to enact a law which will ban student activities and events which are “incompatible with the Jewish character...

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February 17, 2014

Meeting between Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Israel “out of the question”

A senior member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has denied reports that preparations are being made in Washington for a meeting between the organisation and Israeli members of parliament. Ibrahim...

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February 17, 2014

Solidarity convoys to Gaza equated with early Jewish migration to Palestine

The Secretary-General of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Sheikh Hammam Said, has equated the current flow of solidarity humanitarian convoys to the Gaza Strip with Jewish migration to Palestine...

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February 17, 2014

EU representative says no viable Palestinian state without area ‘C’

John Gatt-Rutter, the European Union Representative in Jerusalem, has expressed his belief that it is impossible to establish a viable Palestinian state without area ‘C’. Speaking during a discussion...

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February 17, 2014

Solution lies in popular resistance, says Barghouthi

Mustafa Barghouthi MP, the secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative movement, has described peace with the “settlers’ government” of Benjamin Netanyahu as a “pipe dream”. The solution, insists...

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