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January 24, 2014
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Jamal Kanj
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a $3.9 billion national budget for the 2013 fiscal year just one day before the March 31 deadline. The budget was approved without the...
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January 24, 2014
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Yassir Zaatreh
The media has played a vital role in the Arab Spring, from social networks to TV stations. It would be foolish to think otherwise, but if the media was...
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January 24, 2014
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Dr Adnan Abu Amer
It is no secret that Hamas was happy for Dr. Mohammad Morsi to win the Egyptian presidential elections. The source of most of its regional strength lies in Cairo,...
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It is no secret that Hamas was happy for Dr. Mohammad Morsi to win the Egyptian presidential elections. The source of most of its regional strength lies in Cairo,...
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January 24, 2014
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Samira Shackle
Today is the 65th anniversary of the massacre at Deir Yassin, a village near West Jerusalem. Early in the morning of 9 April 1948, around 120 members of the...
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January 24, 2014
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Jamal Kanj
On October 10, 2002 I was driving the family during a short vacation at Yosemite National Park. Indifferent to the family's holiday disposition, I scanned the radio for the...
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January 24, 2014
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Samira Shackle
For months – even years – Iran and the West have been engaged in circular talks about Tehran's nuclear programme. Last week's talks, in the capital of Kazakhstan, were...
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January 24, 2014
Abdul Hussein Shaban
The US has sought to impose its philosophy, lifestyle and culture on the world ever since it became a "superpower" politically, economically, militarily and technologically after World War Two....
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January 24, 2014
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Dr Fadi Elhusseini
Spring is a time for optimism, with the green shoots of summer pushing through after a long winter. Alas, things in the Middle East are now very different. With...
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January 24, 2014
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Fahmi Huwaidi
Is a British newspaper report of violations against protesters in a military hospital in Cairo defamatory of the Egyptian Armed Forces, justifying hostile official statements? Does it play down...
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January 24, 2014
Abdullah al-Ashaal
Egypt is falling victim to various incidents perceived to be the results of tension between Muslims and Christians which are sometimes targeting Christians and churches. Such incidents began in...
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January 24, 2014
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Yassir Zaatreh
Yasser Arafat's attempt to support the Aqsa Intifada in order to rebel against the terms of the Oslo Accords backfired. Far from ending the Palestinian Authority's role as a...
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If Ismail Pasha brought foreign occupation onto Egypt after drowning it in debt, then what will Salam Fayyad and Mahmoud Abbas bring onto the Palestinians who are already under...
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January 24, 2014
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Fahmi Huwaidi
Surprising things happened in Egypt this week, reminding us that we were on the verge of forgetting about the revolution and opening our eyes to one or two things....
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January 24, 2014
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Jamal Kanj
LEBANON commemorated the 38th anniversary of its Civil War last week. In the days leading up to April 13, 1975 the country was virtually divided across sectarian lines. The...
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January 24, 2014
Saleh Al-Na'ami
Despite the wide scale reaction caused by recent electronic attacks on Israel which targeted ministry websites and government facilities on the internet, it may be asserted that this attack...
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January 24, 2014
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Oraib Al-Rantawi
Dr Salam Fayyad resigned after Palestinians had had enough of the blatant and bold international interventions in their internal affairs; and after attempts to impose a high commissioner on...
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January 24, 2014
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Samira Shackle
On 16 April, it emerged that the US was sending 200 troops to Jordan, to establish a small headquarters near the border with Syria. While these troops will initially...
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January 24, 2014
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Fahmi Huwaidi
Opposition newspapers in Egypt insist that the Muslim Brotherhood were the ones who opened fire with shotguns during recent protests (yesterday, one newspaper mentioned what it called "The Brotherhood's...
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January 24, 2014
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Dr Adnan Abu Amer
If Israel could go back in time to October 2011, it wouldn't have gone through with the exchange agreement with Hamas and released 1,000 of their detained senior members,...
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January 24, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
UNICEF's report, Children in Israeli Military Detention, Observations and Recommendations, detailing the condition of Palestinian children detained in Israel's military jails fails to address torture as a modus operandi,...
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January 24, 2014
Saleh Al-Na'ami
Things have become clearer and there are indications that an Arab-American (Israeli) agreement regarding the Syrian issue has begun to manifest. What is important to us is the focus...
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January 24, 2014
Tamim Al-Barghouthi
Yes. This question seems odd and the answer even odder. Nowadays, some people ask if the liberation of Palestine is necessary, as people are preoccupied with their internal wars;...
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It is strange that some of our brothers in Egypt and Tunisia, appearing in television, radio, or print media, have talked negatively about Qatar's authority, people and resources. What...
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January 24, 2014
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Oraib Al-Rantawi
Israel is, once again, beating the war drums against Gaza. This time it is on the grounds of the missiles from Sinai that hit Israel, which it claims came...
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January 24, 2014
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Samira Shackle
Chuck Hagel, the newly appointed US defense secretary, did not get off to a good start with Israel. Indeed, his appointment earlier this year was nearly derailed altogether by...
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January 24, 2014
Lama Khater
Now that student body elections season in the West Bank has come to end, there is no doubt that the Islamic Bloc needs to carefully assess its experience in...
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January 24, 2014
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Oraib Al-Rantawi
In a comprehensive strategic sense, Jordan has a number of interests that need to be taken into account as Syria engages in an open civil-sectarian war; first of which...
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January 24, 2014
Dr Essam Nu'aman
Israel's Chief of General Staff Benny Gantz and former Head of Military Intelligence General Amos Yadlin have been discussing the situation in Syria and Lebanon, expressing concerns about Islamist...
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January 24, 2014
Dr Bashir Musa Nafi
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have gathered in the squares of six Iraqi cities since the last week of December. During 120 days of public protest against sectarian discrimination...
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January 24, 2014
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Yassir Zaatreh
Only a few months after the fighting in Syria began in earnest I wrote about the Afghan model there. Unfortunately, this has been confirmed over time. After more than...
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January 24, 2014
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Dr Adnan Abu Amer
150 days after Israel's last war on the Gaza Strip, security tension has resurfaced without warning. It comes amid preoccupation with pressing regional issues beginning with the enflamed Syria...