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March 3, 2014

Gaza stands between acknowledgement and oblivion

Once again, “concern” has graced the rhetoric of official United Nations statements about Palestinians. Following a visit to Gaza, the UN Special Coordinator, Robert Serry, elaborated upon the ramifications...

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March 3, 2014

Chair of Israel’s Council for Higher Education: scientists are ‘army’ against BDS

A senior Israeli education official has described the country’s scientists as “an army…facing attempts to boycott us”. Speaking at a discussion on Israel’s participation in the EU’s Horizon 2020...

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March 3, 2014

Has the EU finally decided to get tough on Egypt?

Ever since Mohamed Morsi, the democratically elected president of Egypt, was ousted in July 2013, the European Union – along with other western powers – has been uncertain of...

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March 3, 2014

Cultivating acquiescence and complicity

Israel has once again exhibited its dramatic propaganda, this time during a ceremony organised by former MK Michael Ben Ari, which honoured a Zionist student for complaining about her...

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March 3, 2014

My January 25 revolution memoirs, Part II

I could not believe my eyes when I saw camels and horses running on the Nile Corniche heading to Tahrir Square. I was a witness to the battle which...

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March 3, 2014

Israeli government takes credit for ABP decision not to divest – but is it telling the truth?

Following recent decisions by major European investment funds to cut ties with Israeli entities, the announcement last week by Dutch pension fund ABP that it was not excluding Israeli...

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March 3, 2014

Who will succeed Abbas?

I believe that the past few months of his political life suggest that Mahmoud Abbas will not make it to the end of this year as president of the...

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March 3, 2014

The reality about cease-fire violations between the Palestinians and the Israelis

If we were to ask anyone, from an ordinary observer to a well-read media analyst, who breaks ceasefires more frequently, Palestinians or Israelis, they would almost certainly say the...

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March 3, 2014

Al-Maydan (The Square) film star: I fled my house escaping through the roof

Social media activists have reported the arrest of Majdi Al-Attar, one of the actors starring in the film Al-Maydan (The Square). On Tuesday evening, Al-Attar wrote on his Facebook...

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March 3, 2014

Palestinian women changing the resistance

On January 31 2014, the Popular Struggle Committees participants united as part of the “Melh Al-Ard” (salt of the Earth) campaign with the objective of revitalising the abandoned village...

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