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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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  • January 25, 2014

    While the world looks away, the occupation of Palestine goes on

    For anyone relying on the mainstream media for information about the rest of the world, the knowledge they receive builds up into a flavour-of-the-month approach to history. Correspondents flock...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Preliminary Historical Observations on the Arab Revolutions of 2011

    Towards the end of his long, eventful life, in 1402, the renowned Arab historian Ibn Khaldun was in Damascus. He left us a description of Taymur’s siege of the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Enduring Palestine Land Day

    For nearly three decades the Palestinian people had been brutalised and belittled. Then on 30 March 1976 they took a collective stand. They were not the nomadic nuisance denounced...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Goldstone’s scandalous vindication of Israel

    Israeli leaders are lauding a Washington Post op-ed by former South African Judge Richard Goldstone in which he sought to ameliorate the severity of war crimes and crimes against...

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