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  • January 25, 2014

    The definition of insanity

    WESTERN media is obsessed with presenting a positive spin on everything related to Israel, while trivialising good and accentuating negative news on Palestine. It’s admirably free in many aspects,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Financing humanitarian and human rights abuses

    The popular dissemination that UNRWA provides ‘assistance and protection’ to Palestinian refugees helping them ‘to achieve their full potential in human development, pending a just solution to their plight’...

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  • January 25, 2014

    This is Not the Iraq We Know

    Last summer, on an exceptionally sunny London day, I was walking to my office and suddenly I was jolted from my thoughts by a voice calling my name. I...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israeli messages to the delegates holding talks in Cairo

    Israel has been sending messages confirming its intentions to undermine the merit of Palestinian elections and derail their national reconciliation efforts. The most prominent of these messages have been...

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  • January 25, 2014

    "The invention of the Jewish people"

    The Invention of the Jewish People was a book written by Shlomo Sand, an Israeli professor of history at the University of Tel Aviv. The author wasn’t probing a...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The propaganda machine

    There is, today, nothing louder than the voices of sabotage, destruction, and incitement in the Egyptian media. There has been a determined attempt to aggravate the relationship between the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel has to plan the war to end all war

    The Middle East is in a state of constant tension, spreading from country to country. The cause is often Israel and its policies, including the main focus of the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    From death row to prime minister

    While wearing his prison clothes and awaiting his execution in 1987, the man now charged with forming a new government in Tunisia could never have dreamt that his political...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Salutations from Samer Al-Issawi

    Samer Al-Issawi has been on hunger strike for almost 220 days, and he is still determined to continue, making his protest the longest in history. As much as he...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Intifada and its Signals

    Since the last war on Gaza, the media has abounded with forecasts and the predicted signals of a third Intifada in Palestine, particularly in the West Bank. These expectations...

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