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Introduction – The OECD and Israel's impending accessionThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) does exactly what its name suggests. The group, established in its current form in...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Omar RadwanIsrael's military order allowing the expulsion of potentially hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank has serious implications for its neighbour Jordan. The order, which...
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Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, did not attend the 47-nation nuclear security summit in Washington DC, hosted by President Obama. Unofficial sources claim that Mr. Netanyahu feared that a...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Jonathan CookAn Arab member of the Israeli parliament is demanding that a newspaper be allowed to publish an investigative report that was suppressed days before Israel attacked Gaza...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Abdul Bari UtwanThe Arab region is presently experiencing strange circumstances which bring to mind the situation which prevailed before the 1973 war. The peace process is basically stalled,...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Khalid Amayreh Muhannad Salahat, 32, is another Palestinian journalist victimized by the Palestinian Authority Mukhabarat or General Intelligence. Earlier this month, Salahat, who lives in Amman, Jordan, but...
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In Israel, the main factor that determines the right of citizenship is "nationality" rather than the place of birth. Such nationality does not apply to all the current residents...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Fahmi Huwaidi The current consensus among the majority of Egyptians, with a loss of confidence in the present and growing concern for the future, brings to mind pivotal...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
The oppression of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is normally associated with the Israelis. However, the Palestinian Authority (PA) led by Mahmoud Abbas oppresses not only popular resistance...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
EXCLUSIVE ARTICLE FROM MEMOBy Mahan AbedinSituated deep inside the Bekaa valley, a stone's throw away from the historic town of Baalbek, sits the Jalil Palestinian refugee camp, the most...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
Deputy Minister of International Relations and Co-operation of the Republic of South Africa Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim used the occasion of the 2010 Budget Vote in the National Assembly (22nd...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Ali Jawad In the self-sensationalising world of modern media, some truths are better witnessed than told. Over the past fortnight, major media outlets have focused on Syria's alleged...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Ahmed MansourThose who take notice of such things will know that Israel, generally, is working according to a long-term strategy with the complicity of the Palestinian Authority on...
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January 27, 2014
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Dr Daud Abdullah
The dust from the Al-Mabhouh murder and forged passports affair has barely settled, yet Israel is again infuriating its European allies. After the furore following Al-Mabhouh's assassination in Dubai,...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Dr Mohsen Saleh Israel has a negotiating strategy that is designed to prolong the negotiations allowing more time for the construction of facts on the ground, putting it...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Dan Lieberman – Alternative Insight A question continually asked: Why has peace in the Middle East not been attainable? Clues to the answer are shunted from biased minds...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
Islamic Posts Filled by Secret PoliceBy Jonathan CookJob interviews for the position of imam at mosques in Israel are conducted not by senior clerics but by the Shin Bet,...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Encouraged by government flaccidity and leniency, Jewish settler terrorists in the West Bank are planning to carry out more arson attacks against...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
The Secretary-General of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr Mahmoud Al-Ramahi, has said that amid expectations that support for the Palestinian Authority will be stopped due to the financial crisis;...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By John SpritzlerAP reporter Rizek Abdel Jawad broke a taboo by providing truthful background in his report today on Palestinians in Gaza marching to commemorate the Nakba, which mean...
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January 27, 2014
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Ibrahim Hewitt
The importance of the Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be stressed enough. The high profile the issue has across the world illustrates its key status in world affairs. All the more...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Azmi BisharaCongratulating Israel on its "Independence Day" is to congratulate it on the successful armed robbery of Palestine and the brutal displacement of its people. When such congratulations...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Ala'a Al-Rimawi Since June 2007, the people of Gaza have been subject to an immoral and inhuman blockade imposed by Israel – with Egyptian support – which has...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Abdel Bari Atwan We know that the Islamic Resistance Movement is facing intensive Israeli and Arab efforts to bring about the downfall of the Hamas government in the...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Naomi Wimborne-IdrissiIn March 2010, protests in a London concert hall interrupted a live BBC Radio3 broadcast by an Israeli chamber music group and sparked vehement arguments about the...
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January 27, 2014
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Sameer Hamatto
Israel's political and military leadership clearly had no real strategy for dealing with the Freedom Flotilla intent on breaking the siege of Gaza. The country's government was unable to...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Yvonne RidleyHow many people remember the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro way back in October 1985? Four members of the Palestine Liberation Front took control...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine For many years, I have been arguing rather constantly that Israel is a decidedly terrorist state that differs little in character from other...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Abdel Bari Atwan We thank God that the Freedom Flotilla set sail from the ports of Turkey; we praise Him more that one of them, Mavi Marmara, was...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Yvonne Ridley The full extent of the atrocities carried out by Israeli commandos on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla is beginning to emerge as the survivors return home...
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
By Roger Higginson IssueThe time has come for a re-appraisal of UK policy towards Israel, 19 years after the Middle East Peace Process started in Madrid. On 16 March...
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January 27, 2014
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Ibrahim Hewitt
In the wake of Israel's assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, the international community called for the siege of Gaza to be lifted. US President Obama called it "unsustainable"...