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January 24, 2014
Hamdi Abdulrahman
There is no doubt that the unbiased spirit of Bandung and the visions of national liberation leaders such as Nkrumah, Sekou Toure and Gamal Abdel Nasser have revived the...
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Saeed Al-Wahabi is a young Saudi writer. His pen is hard-hitting and quick. Last Sunday evening he summed up the public Saudi mood after Saudis had had enough analysis...
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January 24, 2014
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Dr Fadi Elhusseini
While analyses have abounded about the Middle East peace process, including details of the "secret" talks and evaluations of the positions of the negotiating parties, prominent Israeli writers have...
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January 24, 2014
Dr Fayez Rashid
As was expected, Iran and the P5+1 countries reached an interim six-month agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue. The deal sealed Western recognition of Iran's right to produce nuclear...
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January 24, 2014
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Jessica Purkiss
On Saturday, protests were held worldwide in global defiance of a bill currently going through Israel's Knesset. The bill, known as the Prawer Plan, aims to forcibly relocate up...
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January 24, 2014
Abdulrahman Farhaneh
It seems that there are two very surprising reconciliations underway and they involve two very significant Middle Eastern powers as they develop relationships with two world powers. These two...
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January 24, 2014
Izzat Al Rishq
Some Arab writers, journalists and media professionals are facing a real crisis. They have distanced themselves from the ethics of their profession in search of news reports made up...
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January 24, 2014
Dr Madawi Al Rasheed
Saudi foreign policy currently finds itself in a predicament that could soon lead to collapse. Over the course of the past few months, Saudi Arabia received several weakening blows...
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January 24, 2014
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Yassir Zaatreh
The aforementioned question seems a bit odd at the moment, it has been two years since the Syrian Revolution turned into an armed revolution and therefore there is no...
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January 24, 2014
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Samira Shackle
Joining the army is not optional for Israeli teenagers. At the age of 18, Israeli men face three years of mandatory service in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF); in...
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January 24, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
The question of legitimacy has recently been the subject of a report by Israel's secret agency, Mossad, claiming that a peace agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was impossible...
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January 24, 2014
Mubarak Fahd Al Duwayla
Failures in Gulf state foreign policies are happening daily. Support for the overthrow of President Morsi Egypt was followed by the removal of Qatar and Turkey from their lead...
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January 24, 2014
Sameer Al-Hajjawi
While we could say that the "Palestinian national project" suffers from neglect in the light of the internal divisions and other distractions around the Arab world, we actually have...
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January 24, 2014
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Fahmi Huwaidi
The potential scenarios for the New Year pose some interesting questions. Will an understanding between Iran and Israel, for example, be one of the options for the re-structuring of...
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January 24, 2014
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Jessica Purkiss
The festive season has begun. In Bethlehem, a large Christmas tree stands tall in Manger Square. The tree is a gift to the Palestinians from USAID, the lead US...
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January 24, 2014
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Abdel Bari Atwan
In refugee camps across Jordan and Turkey Syrian children are freezing to death and their peers in the Gaza Strip are drowning while the Arab countries, most notably the...
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January 24, 2014
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Jessica Purkiss
Bashir Habanin's house is full of the things he has made. As a professor of Décor at Khadoury Technical College in Tulkarem, West Bank, he was always making furniture...
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January 24, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
After decades of United Nations complicity allowing Israel's colonisation of Palestine, the yearly International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People has been upgraded symbolically to encompass a whole...
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In recent years, many young Palestinian activists living in the 1948-occupied Palestinian territories (Israel) have been questioning the absence of a unified national activist movement, in light of the...
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Statements by chief negotiator Saeb Erekat have revealed the political blunder in Palestine. The man admitted that since the resumption of negotiations in July 2013, Israel has killed 31...
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January 24, 2014
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Ibrahim Hewitt
Once again we hear that Israel has bombed the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip "in retaliation" for something that they've done against Israelis. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that...
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January 24, 2014
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Jessica Purkiss
In the Palestinian Christian village of Iqrit, only the church was left standing. On Christmas Eve 1951, Israeli troops destroyed the village. The houses were turned to rubble and...
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January 24, 2014
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Zaakir Ahmed Mayet
Many will recall the days that stunned the world exactly five years ago, when Israel launched Operation Cast Lead against the Gaza Strip. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly...
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January 24, 2014
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Abdel Bari Atwan
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is addicted to negotiations and secret channels with the Israelis and therefore it was not surprising when it was revealed that secret meetings had...
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January 24, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
Opposition to the Palestinian prisoners' release reverberated during a meeting organised by Deputy Defence Minister Danny Danon. According to reports in Maariv, Danon called upon Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
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January 24, 2014
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Samira Shackle
As the world focuses on the bloody civil war in Syria and the series of revolutions and counter-revolutions in Egypt, attention has drifted away from Iraq. Hundreds of thousands...
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January 24, 2014
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Dr Adnan Abu Amer
When Israel attacked and invaded the Gaza Strip exactly five years ago, its political and military forces realised that its success or failure relied mainly on the accuracy of...
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January 24, 2014
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Rana Awaisi
Although Israeli law considers racial incitement illegal, the Israeli media consistently provides a platform for extremists who commit racial incitement against groups that Israelis perceive as an "enemy," especially...
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January 24, 2014
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Dr Mohsen M. Saleh
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...
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January 24, 2014
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Haifa Zangana
The "new Iraq" government and its media are beating the drums of comprehensive sectarian strife. The Iraqi people, drowning in a flood of poverty, poor education and health provision,...
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January 24, 2014
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Jessica Purkiss
As people across the world welcome in the New Year, they will also reflect on the year just past. For Palestine and Israel, 2013 was a year that saw...
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January 24, 2014
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Samira Shackle
During his tenure as Secretary of State, John Kerry has placed an emphasis on the Israel-Palestine peace process – or, more accurately, on restarting the peace process, which has...