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Items by Hussam Abu-Hamed
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The Haredim and Netanyahu: Will the traditional right wing camp fall apart?
It may not have occurred to David Ben-Gurion 77 years ago, when he approved a limited exemption from military service for a few hundred yeshiva students, that he was sowing the seeds of a crisis that would threaten Israel’s existence. The goal at the time was purely political, as he…
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Yarmouk is moving from being a refugee camp to a Damascus neighbourhood
In April 2018, Syrian regime forces and those Palestinian factions allied with them used Russian air cover to launch a military assault on Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp and the neighbouring Al-Hajar Al-Aswad district, with the stated aim of expelling Daesh. After 33 days of fighting, Daesh members and their families…