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  • January 25, 2014

    The people want an end to American support for settlements

    The wave of liberation revolutions sweeping the Arab world has shown the world that the Arabs are alive and deserve freedom and prepared to fight and die for it....

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  • January 25, 2014

    What are the implications of Middle East-North Africa unrest for the future of the Israel-Palestine peace process?

    In an interview for the BBC during an emergency tour of the Middle East earlier this month, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said: “Amid the opportunity for countries like...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The shape of times to come

    I was struck by the huge difference between the response to my article “No Room for Western Hypocrisy” in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper and the response of Western readers to...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Egypt: A Virtual Smoking Gun?

    On 12 January 2009, US Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James K. Glassman joined a group of Egyptian political bloggers from the Virtual Newsroom of the American...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Egypt-Israeli relations continue to cool

    The success of the Egyptian revolution has cast a shadow of uncertainty over future relations between Israel and Egypt.  Even though it is too early to predict the course...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Jalil: The Forgotten Refugee Camp

    EXCLUSIVE ARTICLE FROM MEMOBy Mahan AbedinSituated deep inside the Bekaa valley, a stone’s throw away from the historic town of Baalbek, sits the Jalil Palestinian refugee camp, the most...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Windmills which can only be moved by the wind of change

    Ernesto Che Guevara once said, “revolutions are made by adventurers and manipulated by opportunists”.  I recalled this statement while following up Western analyses of Arab revolutions.  I found that...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel manipulates tragedy to advance its own harassment of Palestinians

    It now seems possible that the already infamous “Itamar massacre” last week may not have been the work of a Palestinian but could have been the act of a...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Turkey as a model for a new Middle East

    In the middle of the stupendous social change sweeping Arab shores, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a landmark visit to Turkey. He has always refused to visit Turkey, and...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Netanyahu’s lebensraum

    During his tour of the Jordan valley a few days ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu told soldiers that the Israeli occupation army would have to maintain its presence...

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