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Items by Clayton Swisher
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Biased mediators: The end of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and how it happened
Palestine’s titular president recently declared the end of American mediation once and for all because it is “completely biased toward Israel.” President Donald Trump’s provocation to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem clearly forced Palestinians to take bigger stock of America’s exhaustive, if not suffocating, presence...
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Losing Jerusalem to focus on Iran
The US and its Arab allies have paved the way for Israel to expand its occupation of Palestine. The Palestinian cause is now clearly secondary to the supposed threat posed by Iran in the region. And so, it’s come to this. Jerusalem has been stolen in broad daylight, gone...
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‘Mabrook’ to PA President Abbas’ son Tareq
The son of the Palestinian Authority president Tareq Abbas is already said to own villas in Amman, Jordan and a rooftop pad in Beirut, Lebanon. Now, according to a review of official British Land Registry records from 2012, the world can know Tareq registered – under his legal name...