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January 28, 2014

Bad news for Murdoch can only be good news for Palestinians

The phone hacking scandal which has hit Rupert Murdoch’s publishing company News International is getting bigger every day and shows no signs of dying down. The effect on British politics...

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January 28, 2014

Friends of Al-Aqsa and Israeli propaganda

A response to the deeply-misleading Meir Amit Report It is the usual policy at Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA) not to respond to blatant attempts to discredit our work by...

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January 28, 2014

The rise and rise of Sheikh Raed Salah: Israel's most prominent Islamist wins his case against Britain's Home Secretary

May 8 2012 In my blog entry in October 2011 I commented on the decision of the British government to issue a banning order against Sheikh Raed Salah, the...

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January 28, 2014

Learning from the Irish Hunger Strikes of 1981 and the Palestinian Challenge

John Hurson in Ireland has been keenly conscious of the affinities between the historic Irish hunger strike of 1981 and the ongoing Palestinian hunger strikes. He has travelled to...

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January 28, 2014

Britain condemns university status for illegal settlement college

Britain’s Foreign Secretary has condemned the Israeli cabinet’s decision to upgrade a college in the illegal Ariel settlement in the occupied West Bank to university status, Haaretz newspaper reported...

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January 28, 2014

Has foreign policy been forgotten by the LibDems?

A visitor to this year’s Liberal Democrat Party conference might think that foreign policy has disappeared from the main agenda of this once internationalist party. With no references to...

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January 28, 2014

Israel has a lot to gain from unrest in Egypt

Israel has felt uneasy about the situation in Egypt since the revolution of January 2011; until now. The serious political conflict between the government and opposition and the chaos...

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January 28, 2014

Vanessa Redgrave’s Intifada

Vanessa Redgrave, a veteran actress and human rights activist was last night awarded the Orange British Academy Film Award at London’s Royal Opera House. Well known for her lifelong...

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January 28, 2014

Revolutionary apostasy in Egypt and the Turkish coups

In 1980, General Kenan Evren led a military coup against the Turkish government. American President Jimmy Carter was at a musical concert when he received a phone call from...

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January 28, 2014

Thirst for Justice: The failure of the Euro-Mediterranean water talks

Introduction On April 13, the Fourth Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Water took place in Barcelona, bringing together delegations from the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership’s 43 member states to reach an agreement on...

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