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January 27, 2014

Egypt awaits the international criminal court’s response

The international legal team appointed by the Freedom and Justice Party announced yesterday in London that representatives of the “legitimate Egyptian government” have launched an international case against the...

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January 27, 2014

Two historical narratives to the Egyptian crisis

Last Saturday, an Egyptian government fact-finding committee met to discuss the events that took place during the June 30th coup. At the same time, a group of human rights...

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January 27, 2014

Is Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi the only choice for Egyptians?

I will not argue the power of Colonel Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s popularity, but I will allow myself to argue him being the “necessary” man and that there is no...

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January 27, 2014

A flawed constitution of the ageing

Weeks ago I said in a talk that the place of this constitution is underneath the shoes of the new generation. Yet, I did not expect this to happen...

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January 27, 2014

Muslim Brotherhood will not be part of the blockade of Gaza and will not prevent resistance

A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Mahmoud Ghozlan, has denied any intention to tighten the siege on the Gaza Strip. He made his statement in the context...

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January 27, 2014

Mitchell’s imminent visit to the region… what hope?

By Senussi Bsaikri George Mitchell’s last visit to the region ended without the announcement of any tangible development. This was the case with all his previous visits. On October...

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January 27, 2014

Israel’s fear of the Goldstone Report

By Bilal Al-Hasan Al-Sharq Al-Awsat18 October 2009 The popular Palestinian and Arab campaign against the PA’s decision to defer the Goldstone report and not refer it to the Security...

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January 27, 2014

Good Riddance, Abbas

Foreign Policy (US). . Saree Makdisi 06/11/2009. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, was no good for Palestine. And his exit will make a peaceful solution more likely....

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January 27, 2014

Middle East Deadlock: a consequence of U.S bias and Israeli intransigence

By Zulaikha Abdullah This week marks twenty one years since the November 18, 1988 declaration of a Palestinian state. To coincide with commemorations of this event, and amid increasing...

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January 27, 2014

Jerusalem & Babylon / The story that got away

By Anshel Pfeffer I met this week a senior IDF general who had been intimately involved with the planning and execution of last year’s Operation Cast Lead. I asked...

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