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May 5, 2014

Settlements give the game away; Israel wants all of the West Bank

Soon after the signing of the Wye River Agreement in 1998 Israel’s minister of infrastructure in the first Netanyahu government, the late, unlamented Ariel Sharon, urged settlers to “seize...

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May 5, 2014

As the military feathers its own nest, democracy can wait

The charges against deposed President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood co-defendants are a sad reminder of all that has gone wrong in Egypt since July last year. Those...

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May 5, 2014

Israel’s brinkmanship over Gaza

There is nothing imaginary about Israel’s threat to attack Gaza. It is real; both the Hamas-led administration and civilian population in the enclave have had to live with it...

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May 5, 2014

More of the same as Israel bites the hand that feeds it

Has the Israeli government crossed a red line in its dealings with the US? It is a reasonable assumption after Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s recent derisory comments about Secretary...

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May 5, 2014

Like lambs to the slaughter, the Palestinians are sleep-walking to disaster, again

If he succeeds with his current “peace” initiative, John Kerry would have killed three birds, not two, with one stone. With the stroke of a pen his “proposed framework”...

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May 5, 2014

As the junta hurls its stones, it will be swamped by the Brotherhood’s fruits

“Be like the fruit tree,” advised Hassan Al-Banna. “When people hurl stones at you, off-load your fruits on them.” This was one of the guiding principles that the founder...

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May 5, 2014

As boycotts mount, Israel is running out of friends

Israel’s international isolation has finally become a reality. Within the past week this was cemented by the absence of senior Israeli politicians from Nelson Mandela’s funeral, followed in rapid...

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May 5, 2014

Palestine is still on its own long walk to freedom

There are certain events in the life of nations that define their history for generations. In South Africa, the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and the 1976 Soweto Uprising are prime...

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May 5, 2014

Freedom and justice remain illusions in Kerry’s new-old package

US Secretary of State John Kerry’s current visit to Palestine was foreshadowed by a familiar dark cloud; every such high-level American visit results in more pressure on the Palestinian...

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May 5, 2014

Israel moves from rejection to obstruction of peace

This week’s decision by the Israeli daily Maariv to publish a report which claimed that John Kerry supported the organisers of the Freedom Flotilla was significant in many respects....

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