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  • March 29, 2014

    Settler couple suing Bedouin community over fumes from bread oven

    An Israeli settler couple are attempting to sue a Bedouin community over the fumes being emitted from their bread oven. Yaakov and Bareket Goldstein from the illegal Israeli settlement...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Myths and facts about Turkey’s Gülen movement

    The recent crisis in Turkish democracy, caused by the attempted bureaucratic coup by followers of the Gülen Movement against the civilian government, has led to a plethora of Western...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The right of return for Jewish refugees

    Israeli voices are calling for the right of return for Jewish people to their “historic homeland” and say that the time has come for them to return and be...

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  • March 29, 2014

    What’s next after the ‘demonisation’ of Hamas?

    I read a story in Egypt’s Al-Akhbar newspaper last month which suggested that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) had sent brigades led by the “Mujahid” Ahmed Jabari to...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Ramiya: Under threat of erasure in the Galilee

    “There used to be a water well here but they’ve destroyed it too”. 49-year-old construction worker Salah Swaid, or Abu Nazih as many refer to him, has been organizing...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Federalism and Yemen’s great game

    Overshadowed by the Civil War in Syria, Yemen a troubled state on the periphery of the Middle East, is in danger of becoming a new site for proxy war...

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  • March 29, 2014

    UN envoy Brahimi was right to apologise to the Syrians

    The second round of peace talks on Syria has drawn to a close, with little evidence of any progress. The talks at Geneva were more than a year in...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The political violence of recognising Israel as a Jewish state

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s belligerent insistence upon the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is magnified to the extent that the Zionists’ hegemonic narrative attempts to dispel...

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  • March 29, 2014

    It is no surprise Geneva II failed, a military solution looks likely

    The failure of the Geneva II conference was expected due to the wide gap of understanding between the two delegations and groups of negotiators and each party’s insistence on...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The extent of terrorism in the Arab world

    Theories about terrorism contain all branches of the social sciences, including law, politics, sociology, economics and religion. The definition of terrorism is still not absolute, but in this article...

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