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May 5, 2014

General’s speech intended to show military unity does the opposite

By Egyptian standards, the 40th anniversary of the Ramadan War was truly unusual. Instead of commemorating the heroic crossing of the Suez Canal by its armed forces against the...

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May 5, 2014

MEMO REPORT: Turkey feels betrayed by Obama, Saudi Arabia and UAE

It’s almost one hundred years since the Great Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. Spurred on by a promise of recognition from Britain and France, Arab leaders sought independence...

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May 5, 2014

June 30 anti-Morsi crowd figures just don’t add up

Despite the well-known difficulties of estimating large crowds, it is clear that the numbers game was played by the opposition and the military to orchestrate and justify the coup...

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May 5, 2014

Old habits die hard

Between 1945 and 2008 an estimated 363 coups were staged on the African continent. Of that number, only 88 led to the transfer of power to civilian rule. Throughout...

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May 5, 2014

Analysis of Sidi Gaber video suggests serious media complicity in propagating staged incident

Further to our detailed analysis of the controversial video “M B & Gama’a Islamiya throw kids off buildings in Sidi Gaber”, with a long list of clues as to...

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May 5, 2014

The struggle for freedom and justice will go on

Nothing that the National Salvation Front in Egypt can say will ever disguise the fact that its leadership engineered a military coup against the elected president of the country....

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May 5, 2014

Netanyahu’s grip on the reins of government is loosening

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had precious little to celebrate on the 100th day of his Likud-led coalition government. The occasion was marked this week with a vote...

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May 5, 2014

Palestinians are also victims of sectarian fallout from Syria

It was inevitable that Syria’s bloody civil war would engulf the 530,000 Palestinian refugees in the country. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near...

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May 5, 2014

There are no short cuts to freedom, justice and dignity

Palestine was shaken by a number of diplomatic tremors this week. The aftershocks were felt as far away as Washington, forcing US Secretary of State John Kerry to postpone...

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May 5, 2014

Mission impossible in the West Bank

The battle of wills between Fatah’s elite and the former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, Salam Fayyad, has finally ended with the appointment of his successor,...

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