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December 23, 2014

Israeli troops raze Palestinian factory near Ramallah

Israeli troops on Tuesday demolished a Palestinian makeshift factory near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank under the pretext that it had been built without a permit, one of...

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December 23, 2014

Breakaway Fatah group denies ties to Hamas

A senior member of a breakaway group from Palestinian faction Fatah saidTuesday that no deals had been cut between expelled Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan and rival faction Hamas. “There...

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December 23, 2014

US: Syria will be unstable as long as Assad remains in office

Deputy US Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Michele J. Sison yesterday accused the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad of being the root cause of all the problems...

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December 23, 2014

Israel charges eight Palestinians over Facebook posts

An Israeli court yesterday indicted eight Palestinians from East Jerusalem for “inciting” anti-Jewish violence and supporting “terror” in postings on Facebook, an Israeli Ministry of Justice statement said. The...

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December 23, 2014

Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood accusation

No one can deny that Hamas has had a connection with the Muslim Brotherhood since its foundation in 1987. Hamas, as a movement, does not deny its ideological and...

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December 23, 2014

Family of Palestinian parliament speaker call for his release

The family of the head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Aziz Duweik called for national and international rights groups to put pressure on Israel to release him from...

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December 23, 2014

Iraq unrest costs Jordanian trade $600m

Jordan’s industrial sector has endured more than $600 million in losses due to the deteriorating security situation in Iraq and confrontations with the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014, Chairman...

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December 23, 2014

Hamas ‘refuses’ Palestinian statehood bid if it ‘concedes’ rights

Hamas said yesterday that it “refuses” the Palestinian bid to the UN Security Council if it “concedes” any of the Palestinian rights and principle, spokesman Sami Abu-Zuhri said. In...

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December 23, 2014

Islamophobia and Europe’s refugee crisis

How long does it take a continent to forget its past? Three generations – if Europe’s attitude to Middle Eastern war refugees is any indicator. The Secretary-General of the...

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December 23, 2014

Israel is strangling Christmas but does the West care?

I wonder how many Christian politicians in the West, from Washington to Westminster, Paris to Berlin, took time out in the past few days to watch their children or...

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