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January 23, 2014

The most recent fabrications of the coup-leadership

Since the bloody coup in Egypt, the country has been in an irrational state; it is all a bit unreal. Everything occurring in Egypt at the moment is farcical:...

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January 23, 2014

Political repression undermines Egypt’s transition to democracy

Yesterday, a powerful car bomb ripped through a police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Mansoura. At least 14 people were killed and 120 more injured. Reportedly, five senior...

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January 23, 2014

US: a powerless peace broker

Palestinians and Israelis have met more than twenty times since July 2013 with little progress. Israel security issues dwarfed the final status negotiators while it continued to build, at...

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January 23, 2014

Israel distorts Palestinian resistance to further rhetoric of violence

The distortion of Palestinian resistance has escalated in Israeli official rhetoric. During an IAF graduation ceremony, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared the intention “to strike those who threaten...

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January 23, 2014

Lebanon struggles to leave its sectarian past behind

During the two and a half years of the Syrian war, there has been widespread anxiety in the region about the conflict spilling over into neighbouring countries. Nowhere is...

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January 23, 2014

Britain refuses UN call to house Syrian refugees

The United Nations has classed the Syrian refugee crisis as the worst since the Rwandan genocide ten years ago. They have compared it to the aftermath of the war...

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January 23, 2014

The Red-Dead Seas canal

The agreement for the two seas Canal connecting the Red and Dead Sea was summed up best by Israeli water minister Silvan Shalom who jubilantly described it following the...

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January 23, 2014

Free Egyptians declare that they are Brotherhood members

Paraphrasing the famous words of nationalist leader Mustafa Kamil, free and honourable Egyptians have declared, “If I wasn’t a Brotherhood member, I would wish to be a Brotherhood member.”...

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January 23, 2014

Ashton’s holiday to Luxor endorses military regime

Last week European Union foreign affairs policy chief Catherine Ashton and her family were photographed on their Christmas holidays in Luxor visiting the Valley of the Kings and sailing...

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January 23, 2014

Idan Raichel backs alleged IDF torturer “Captain George”

Internationally-renowned Israeli musician Idan Raichel has come out in defence of a former IDF interrogator accused of torture. Doron Zahavi, referred to as “Captain George” until a gag order...

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