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  • January 25, 2014

    Reconciling identity with military service: Israel's factions

    On a warm summer evening in Jerusalem, hundreds of young soldiers gather in the plaza facing the Wailing Wall. They could be teenagers anywhere in the world only they...

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  • January 25, 2014

    US veto for sale

    Pre-empting Mitt Romney’s campaign visit to Israel, President Barack Obama last Friday signed the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Co-operation Act of 2012. The bill was drafted by the American...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Call for disengagement between peace and complicity with Israel

    Post-revolutionary Egypt should make a distinction between the peace treaty with Israel on the one hand, and partnership and complicity with it against the Palestinians on the other. We...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Stormy dialogue on Jordanian reform which excludes Palestinian component

    A stormy media and political debate has taken place in Jordan after Al-Quds Al-Arabi’ published what is perhaps the first letter sent to King Abdullah II on behalf of...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Incarcerated in Israel

    Palestinians tortured and isolated Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation and denial of access to appropriate health care; such...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The effects of the revolution on Syria's Palestinian refugee camps

    None of the Palestinian families in the Yarmouk refugee camp was expecting 21 to be killed and dozens of wounded as they broke their fast earlier in this month...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Salam Fayyad and his exclusive election theory

    We were afraid that the Palestinian leadership would neglect the right of Palestinians in the diaspora to elect their representatives to the Palestinian National Council. Now we are also...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Churches' uprising against Israel

    While Arabs are busy with revolutions and internal wars, and are largely absent from what is happening in Palestine and Jerusalem with Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the local population,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    By way of deception

    WESTERN and Israeli media are full of purported leaks giving details of the joint efforts by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Ehud Barak to enlist...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Morsi in Beijing and Tehran

    It is an exaggeration to say that President Mohamed Morsi’s proposed visits to China and Iran are a turning point, but we hope so. They could pave the way...

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