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  • March 29, 2014

    The new Palestine according to Kerry

    Since 1967, the Americans have embarked on thousands of rounds of negotiations in the Arab and Islamic world with the hopes of finding a solution for the Palestinian issue...

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  • March 29, 2014

    I hope that Abbas disappoints us

    I told one of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s close friends that I would be writing a different article in which I would note his steadfastness in the event that...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The Rafah Crossing: Gaza’s gate to the world

    The Egyptian controlled Rafah border crossing, which is located in the southern Gaza Strip, links Gaza with the outside world. The Palestinians of the tiny impoverished enclave are denied...

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  • March 29, 2014

    International law hinders Syrian aid

    Before the war in Syria broke out in 2011, the country had been polio-free for almost two decades. However, the World Health Organisation (WHO) publicly reported the first cases...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The evacuation of Homs: Humanitarianism or ethnic cleansing?

    During the now dead and buried Geneva peace talks, the Syrian opposition and government reached a deal allowing evacuation of the 3,500 residents of the Old City of Homs,...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The Wahabists and Hezbollah

    Earlier this week The Guardian newspaper published a picture on its front page depicting a scene from Yarmouk Refugee Camp on the outskirts of Damascus. It reminds all believers...

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  • March 29, 2014

    S is for Sanctions

    It is often forgotten that BDS is a three letter word. To achieve real success and a free Palestine we need to make progress on every front: B, D...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Saudi Arabia’s housing predicament

    The housing crisis in Saudi Arabia is multi-faceted, deep-rooted and difficult to solve completely: but the government response has been limp at best, at times even exacerbating the problem....

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  • March 29, 2014

    Disbanding the Palestinian Authority

    In December 2010, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in a television interview that if Israel continued to build settlements in the West Bank he would disband the Palestinian Authority...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Israel’s latest attempt to incite Muslim-Christian sectarianism will fail

    On Monday Israel’s parliament, the Knesset passed yet another retrograde and discriminatory law. But there was a new twist this time. Racist Likud legislator Yariv Levin championed the law....

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