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  • April 18, 2014

    Why is Israel opposed to Palestine joining international treaties?

    Last week, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that he had accepted the application of Palestinians to join 13 international UN conventions. Significantly, these include the Geneva...

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  • April 18, 2014

    From ethnic cleansing to return: a peace process worthy of the name

    This week marks the 66th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Miska, a Palestinian village whose roughly 1,000-strong population was expelled in April 1948 by Haganah forces. Located around...

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  • April 18, 2014

    Post-coup politics raise tensions between Egypt and Sudan

    Relations between Cairo and Khartoum are tense. Although many fleeing the coup have made it to Libya or London, hundreds if not thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members are thought...

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  • April 18, 2014

    Nabi Saleh breaks the military siege

    For three days, a small village in the West Bank, Nabi Saleh, was subjected to a military siege imposed by the Israeli Occupation Forces as a form of collective...

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  • April 18, 2014

    The Palestinian cause needs an active Turkish government

    We have to be optimistic that the Arab Spring uprooted tyranny in at least some countries, and while the Palestinians are being criticised for showing their joy at the...

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  • April 18, 2014

    The forbidden visit

    Ever since the signing of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty in 1979 it has been the position of the Coptic Church under Pope Shenouda III that, “There will be no...

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  • April 18, 2014

    Has the third Arab liberation movement failed?

    Three diplomats sat in the French consulate in Beirut in May 1916 while the First World War raged and agreed on a secret plan to divide the Middle East...

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  • April 18, 2014

    Welcome to Egypt, 2014

    From whichever angle you look at it, the situation in Egypt is unbelievable. It is unfathomable that three years after the Egyptian revolution, for which 1,000 martyrs paid with...

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  • April 18, 2014

    Returning all of Palestine to the negotiations

    A few days ago, I spoke at the Palestinian Centre for Policy Research and Strategic Studies “Masarat” Conference held in al-Bireh, titled “The Future of Negotiations”. Also scheduled to...

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  • April 18, 2014

    Where is it written that Palestinians have to be killed? Good question.

    The speaker was a Palestinian woman, a refugee from Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Syria; she is now a double refugee living, if that’s the right word, in northern Jordan....

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