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May 3, 2014

We have witnessed penetration by Israel, not normalisation with it

Our national elites like to call relations between the Arab countries and Israel “normalisation”, but the truth is that what these countries are being subject to due to their...

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May 3, 2014

Christians in Egypt torn between church and citizenship

The January 25th Revolution in 2011 represented a real challenge to the structure of tyranny in Egypt at all levels, especially to the dominance of the Coptic Church and...

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May 3, 2014

Harvesting the sweet Golan apples under the bitterness of occupation and civil war

Nazem Khater, an aging apple farmer sits on his veranda looking out at the agricultural lands of Majdal Shams, in the occupied Golan. His father, and his father’s father,...

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May 3, 2014

From Democracy to Military Dictatorship: Egypt 2013 = Chile 1973

For months, leading up to the climax July 3, 2013, the Egyptian theatre was being set for a melodrama no less sensational than the one that unfolded on the...

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May 3, 2014

January tragedy, June farce

The difference between Gamal Abdel Nasser and Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi is as the difference between Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleon III, or Louis Napoleon as he was called. One can...

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May 3, 2014

A reminder of Palestine in Turkey

A gathering in Turkey last week was one of the rare occasions that Palestine was the topic of a conference rather than a marginal or traditional issue added to...

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May 3, 2014

Arming Egypt is playing with fire

America is once again getting a lecture from a client state in the Middle East. This week’s lecturer is Egypt’s president-in-waiting, a man who should be before a court...

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April 27, 2014

Defining political unity

The announcement that Fatah and Hamas will be embarking upon reconciliation has raised the ire of Israel and the US. As the formation of an interim unity government within...

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April 27, 2014

Latin American support for Palestine thwarts Zionist ambitions to dominate the region

A recent op-ed in the Jerusalem Post glorifying the international influence of Israel with particular reference to Guatemala has once again sparked the conviction that the settler-colonial state should...

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April 27, 2014

Impact of Syrian unrest on Ain Al-Hilweh camp

A bodyguard for a senior member of Fatah Al-Islam was shot dead yesterday, in the latest in a series of assassinations sparked by the Syrian war that have rocked...

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