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  • January 23, 2014

    Arab League and Iran differ over Syria, making solution ever more unlikely

    Two years down the line and the bloodletting continues in Syria. Despite the fact that the opposition to the Assad regime consists of many different groups with wildly varying...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Examining Israel’s claim to ‘unilateral action’

    Benjamin Netanyahu has once again created a hodgepodge consisting of the holocaust, the ‘Iranian threat’ and anti-Semitism in order to justify the possibility of Israel taking unilateral action against...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Extension of Israeli nationality law entrenches racial discrimination

    Security concern continues to usurp collective consciousness and Jewish identity. Last Sunday, the Israeli government approved a proposal by Interior Minister, Gideon Sa’ar, to extend the citizenship law by...

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  • January 23, 2014

    An exhibition of historical oppression

    British approval for Israel to temporarily display the Balfour Declaration during the inauguration of a museum in 2015 has met with verbal condemnations from the Arab League and leading...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Sectarian violence continues to divide Iraq

    Throughout his reign in Iraq, Saddam Hussein played up ethnic and sectarian tensions at every opportunity. He spearheaded a long campaign of violent oppression against Shi’ites (who make up...

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  • January 23, 2014

    What’s behind the proposed visit of Qatari royal to Israel?

    Qatar’s foreign policy is nothing if not enigmatic. Since the Arab Spring, the small Gulf state has drastically upped its diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, the culmination of...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Palestine’s search page on Google ‘harms peace’

    Israel’s furore at Google’s decision to replace Palestinian Territories with Palestine in its localised search pages led foreign minister Ze’ev Elkin to issue a statement addressed to Google’s CEO,...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Stephen Hawking’s boycott decision elicits Zionist hatred

    Academic boycotts seem to resonate deeply within Israel, veering towards the dynamics of vengeance. Cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott the Israeli Presidential Conference sparked a furore on social...

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  • January 23, 2014

    The ICC on trial

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that it will launch a preliminary inquiry into Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, which resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Israeli law seeks to protect IDF from ‘defamation’

    The Israeli Ministerial Law Committee has approved a law developed by Yoni Chetboun of Jewish Home party, which would enable the IDF to press charges against individuals or entities...

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