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January 4, 2019

Israel: Labor moves to oust Gabbay as polls show sharp decline in support

Israel’s Labor Party is trying to oust its chair Avi Gabbay, as the latest polls show a sharp decline in the party’s popularity following his dramatic dismissal of opposition...

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January 4, 2019

Netanyahu revels in the enthusiastic Arab normalisation with Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced last Monday that some Arab countries consider Israel “an indispensable ally” in the fight against Iran and Daesh. During a visit to Rio...

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January 4, 2019

Sudan is bored with Al-Bashir

They never learn from others’ mistakes. This seems to be how presidents act; the latest of whom is Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir who is facing angry protests in which...

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January 4, 2019

Abbas and his suicidal decisions

On 22 December Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), dissolved the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). He did so despite the fact that the law does not...

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January 4, 2019

Israel forces open fire at school students in Nablus

Israeli soldier shot live ammunition and tear-gas bombs at Palestinian students who were leaving their school in the northern occupied West Bank village of Tell in Nablus yesterday. Palestinian...

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January 4, 2019

Arabs can confront Israel’s racist nature by going to the polls

One of the most difficult and dangerous jobs in Israel is to be a Palestinian Arab member of the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, and for good reason. Such MKs...

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January 4, 2019

Source: No progress on formation of new Lebanon government

A source familiar with consultations to form a Lebanese government said recent talks “did not result” in finding a solution to the government formation crisis. The source told the...

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January 4, 2019

PA ministry calls on Security Council to stop Israeli attacks against Palestinian journalists

The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Information has called on the UN Security Council to implement Resolution 2222 and protect Palestinian journalists from Israeli attacks. “Hardly a day goes by...

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January 4, 2019

Rights group calls on UN to save thousands of civilian abductees in Iraq

An Iraqi human rights centre has called on the United Nations to intervene and save thousands of civilians who have been abducted and held in prisons run by militias....

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January 4, 2019

Iraq questions Saudi’s use of oil port it built

A senior Iraqi official said his country will seek clarifications from Saudi Arabia over the kingdom’s recent use of a Red Sea oil port that was built with Iraqi...

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