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January 25, 2014

Palestinian Bedouins threatened with ethnic cleansing

The Israeli government has adopted a new plan to “resettle” the Bedouin residents of unrecognised villages in the Negev Desert into larger recognised settlements. This plan will affect tens...

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January 25, 2014

Official sources in Israel claim that the regime in Jordan is close to collapse

Political sources in Israel, described as “high-level”, have claimed that the government in Jordan is now very weak and is close to collapse. While the United States is trying...

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January 25, 2014

Is Israel now the unofficial 51st State of the United States of America?

President Barack Obama has done us all a favour with his speech to the United Nations; rarely, if ever, has a US president made it so obvious what many...

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January 25, 2014

Does the resignation of Al-Jazeera Director-General signal a change in state policies?

The resignation of the Director-General of satellite TV network Al-Jazeera has caused an uproar befitting the status of the man charged with drafting the policies of the most important...

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January 25, 2014

Irreparable Cracks in the Syrian Regime

In March 2011, only a week before the Syrian revolution sparked off, Michael Broning of Foreign Affairs wrote an article about the “Sturdy House that Assad Built”, arguing the...

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January 25, 2014

A Palestinian-American view of the US veto

The Palestinians have been suffering for decades at the hands of one of the most brutal military occupations in the modern world. They are dehumanised on a daily basis,...

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January 25, 2014

UK government conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism in Salah trial

Renowned Palestinian activist and religious leader Sheikh Raed Salah was at the UK’s Sheldon immigration court in Birmingham this week. His appeal against the government’s decision in June to...

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January 25, 2014

What is the UN there for?

Article 1, paragraph 1 of the Charter of the United Nations says that the purpose of the organisation is “to maintain international peace and security”. On that level, the...

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January 25, 2014

Leaked documents explain events at Al-Jazeera

There has been a cascade of rumours about the shock resignation of Al-Jazeera’s Wadah Khanfar. While some point to diplomatic reports of a power struggle between Islamists and secular...

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January 25, 2014

Netanyahu and the Jewish state

“It is not possible to terminate negotiations without starting them.” This precious piece of wisdom was uttered by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with BBC Arabic...

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