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  • May 4, 2014

    Chas Freeman: Engaging the Middle East – after the Cairo speech

    By Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.), Tufts University, October 15, 2010 As an American, I look at the results of U.S. policies in the Middle East and...

    Commentary & Analysis
  • May 4, 2014

    Headlines twist Netanyahu’s devious diplomatic games

    The BBC is often accused of bias when it comes to the way it reports on the Middle East conflict; Zionists say that it is anti-Israel, while pro-Palestinians say...

    Commentary & Analysis
  • May 4, 2014

    Israeli settlers burn yet another mosque in occupied Palestine

    Hours after a meeting between the Israel Defence Forces’ Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, and his Palestinian interlocutors in Bethlehem, Israeli settlers have set fire to the Ambiya Mosque...

    Commentary & Analysis
  • May 4, 2014

    The Ineffable Lobby

    By Paul R. Pillar Lately one hasn’t heard much of the screaming against the observation that supporters of a certain Middle Eastern state exercise influence over U.S. policy that...

    Commentary & Analysis
  • May 4, 2014

    Obama is humiliated by Israeli blackmail

    It is shameful to see the United States grovelling before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extreme right-wing coalition government. The US government is Israel’s biggest political and...

    Commentary & Analysis
  • May 4, 2014

    Michael White in conversation with Sir Gerald Kaufman MP

    On Sunday 26 September, the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) held a joint fringe event with the Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) at the Labour Party...

    Commentary & Analysis
  • May 4, 2014

    Once again, PA caves on Goldstone Report

    By Philip Weiss Complete cave: The Palestinian Authority today acted in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to freeze the Goldstone Report, preventing it from going to the...

    Commentary & Analysis
  • May 4, 2014

    Egypt: 11 Morsi supporters died in custody since July 3 due to medical negligence and torture

    Families of 11 supporters of the ousted president Mohamed Morsi said their relatives died in custody due to absence of medical care in prisons. According to Anadolu news agency,...

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  • May 4, 2014

    Hamas is likely to take part in presidential elections

    A senior member of the Hamas political bureau said on Saturday that his movement is likely to take part in the proposed Palestinian presidential election. Speaking to journalists in...

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  • May 4, 2014

    Iraq’s top Shia cleric warns of election fraud

    Iraq’s top Shia spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, has warned of attempts to manipulate the parliamentary election results, his representative Sheikh Abdul Mahdi Al-Karbalai said on Friday. Iraqis...

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