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Items by Dr Mohsen M. Saleh
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Determinants of Turkey’s Policy vis-à-vis Hamas
Turkey was the first Muslim state to recognise Israel after its inception in 1948, and later established full diplomatic relations with it. The strict secular regime supported by the military, maintained this relation for quite a long period. However, when the Islamist Welfare (Refah) Party headed by Necmettin Erbakan formed…
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Is Egypt Heading to “Ikhwanization,” “Wafdanization,” or “Militarization”?
The conflict in and over Egypt cannot be reduced to being a mere struggle over political power, albeit the latter is an intricate part of it. Indeed, in a major part of it, it is an ideological struggle related to the identity of the state and its policies, and how…
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The Right of Return and the Right to Break the Fence
When the 12-year-old ‘Imad saw his mother prepare some sandwiches, which they can have during the march on 15/5/2011 to the southern Lebanese borders with Palestine, he wondered in surprise, “What is the food for? Will we have the time to eat it? Aren’t we going today to the borders…
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An analysis of the experience of the Palestine Liberation Organisation
An analysis of the experience of the Palestine Liberation Organisation The existence of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is an achievement to be proud of. It expressed the Palestines’ spirit to liberate the land and not see their cause subsumed in the wider Arab political and social milieu. Nevertheless, an…
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Can a Breakthrough Be Made in Palestinian-Israeli Peace Negotiations?
It appears that the Arab Spring’s aftershock/counter-revolution, culminated with the military coup in Egypt, has given a strong push for the peace process with Israel; encouraging the Israeli-American party to take advantage of the historical opportunity offered by an Arab strategic environment – that is weak, fragmented, and mired in…