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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel's leaders walk in the footsteps of General Pinochet

    By Tahir Al Udwan Settlement expansion continues 24/7 in occupied Jerusalem, yet the Arab world only expresses concern about this cancerous phenomenon when demolition threatens Al-Aqsa Mosque or is...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel makes too many mistakes for them to be mistakes

    The brutal killing of an unarmed Palestinian as he lay asleep in his own bed has been “regretted” by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). I am sure that the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    My advice to Egypt

    By Khalid Amayreh The New Year bombing in Alexandria, which killed as many as 25 innocent people, nearly all of them Christian Copts, shocked Egypt and the Arab world....

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  • January 25, 2014

    More crocodile tears over the shepherd hotel

    By Omar Radwan On Sunday, Israeli bulldozers demolished the historic Shepherd Hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem.  This hotel was built in the 1930s as a...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel tries to export its own brand of censorship

    Like a bolshie child Israel does not take criticism well. However, unlike a child, Israel does not just stamp its foot and pout when someone criticises it but instead,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israelis can tell the whole story of Sudan's division - they wrote the script and trained the actors

    By Fahmi Howeidi Now that we have been unable to defend the unity of Sudan, it might benefit us to understand what has happened there. Perhaps that will alert...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Three messages from Tunisia

    It was not that it happened but the manner of Zain al-Abedin Ben Ali’s departure from Tunisia which took everyone by surprise. The extraordinary speed, the humiliation and the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Palestine Papers - "Shocking revelations" on Jerusalem

    The chief Palestinian negotiator appears disconnected from his own people and his wider Arab and Muslim constituency. One of the most shocking revelations of The Palestine Papers obtained by...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Al-Jazeera documents: what's next?

    Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have lashed out at the Al-Jazeera pan-Arab network for disclosing previously secret documents showing that PA negotiators had agreed to compromise over some cardinal issues...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel is a rogue, murderous state

    By Khalid Amayreh in occupied PalestineIsraeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, have been complaining about the increasing “de-legitimization” of the Zionist state across the world. Netanyahu, who is...

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