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October 16, 2014

Muslim Brotherhood calls on Hamas to include Jordanian prisoners in upcoming swap

The Islamic Action Front (IAF), the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, has called on Hamas to include Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails in an expected prisoner swap with...

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October 16, 2014

Are we witnessing the Macedonian question of the 21st century?

The developments in Iraq and Syria today bear strong resemblances to the dynamics of political competition that unravelled in the Ottoman Balkans in the late 1890s and early 1900s....

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October 15, 2014

Siege on Al-Aqsa tightens

The Israeli army is continuing to tighten the siege around the Al Aqsa Mosque compound. During the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which ends Wednesday evening, hundreds of right-wing...

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October 15, 2014

Ghannouchi’s pragmatism confuses everyone

The leader of the Ennahda Movement, Rashid Ghannouchi, surprised everyone when he said that his party was ready to form a coalition government including many parties and that it...

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October 15, 2014

The potentials for failure in the strategy for facing ISIS

June 10 was the turning point of the management of the conflict in both Iraq and Syria. It was also a shock that stunned many world leaders and researchers...

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October 15, 2014

30 students arrested on campus

Thirty Egyptian students are reported to have been arrested following clashes which broke out in three universities yesterday between students and the police. Abdel-Rahman Safwan, president of the oppositional...

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October 15, 2014

Lobbying the Lancet: how Israel’s apologists smeared ‘doctors for terrorism’

Over 50 days in July-August, the Israeli army subjected the 1.8 million residents of the fenced-in, blockaded Gaza Strip to an unprecedented assault. 2,131 Palestinians were killed, including 501...

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October 15, 2014

Changing political views towards Israel in the UK

On Monday October 13, British MPs voted to recognise Palestine as a state, by 272 to 12 – a majority of 260. Ministers were told to abstain, and the...

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October 15, 2014

Morsi calls press conference after 57 days of silence

Ousted Egyptian President Dr Mohamed Morsi asked his defence team to organise a press conference today in order for him to respond to a security official’s allegations that he...

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October 15, 2014

Middle East Peace: The Principles behind the Process

Below is the transcript of the speech by Sir Alan Duncan MP at the Royal United Services Institute, on Tuesday October 14th, 2014. Introduction May I start by expressing my...

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