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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
A recent blog in the Times of Israel by Dani Dayan, Chief Foreign Envoy of the YESHA council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria (known to the rest...
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Since the bloody coup in Egypt, the country has been in an irrational state; it is all a bit unreal. Everything occurring in Egypt at the moment is farcical:...
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Yesterday, a powerful car bomb ripped through a police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Mansoura. At least 14 people were killed and 120 more injured. Reportedly, five senior...
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Palestinians and Israelis have met more than twenty times since July 2013 with little progress. Israel security issues dwarfed the final status negotiators while it continued to build, at...
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The distortion of Palestinian resistance has escalated in Israeli official rhetoric. During an IAF graduation ceremony, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared the intention "to strike those who threaten...
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During the two and a half years of the Syrian war, there has been widespread anxiety in the region about the conflict spilling over into neighbouring countries. Nowhere is...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
The United Nations has classed the Syrian refugee crisis as the worst since the Rwandan genocide ten years ago. They have compared it to the aftermath of the war...
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The agreement for the two seas Canal connecting the Red and Dead Sea was summed up best by Israeli water minister Silvan Shalom who jubilantly described it following the...
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Paraphrasing the famous words of nationalist leader Mustafa Kamil, free and honourable Egyptians have declared, "If I wasn't a Brotherhood member, I would wish to be a Brotherhood member."...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Last week European Union foreign affairs policy chief Catherine Ashton and her family were photographed on their Christmas holidays in Luxor visiting the Valley of the Kings and sailing...
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Internationally-renowned Israeli musician Idan Raichel has come out in defence of a former IDF interrogator accused of torture. Doron Zahavi, referred to as "Captain George" until a gag order...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
Eliminating chronology and context from the recent Palestinian resistance against Israel's state terror, its ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, urged UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to condemn...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
A recent report in the Times of Israel illustrates the emphasis which Israeli officials place upon diplomatic rhetoric, instead of expounding upon the prevailing expansionism associated with the Zionist...
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Routine torture in Israeli prisons occasionally makes the news as a reminder of its existence combined with the perpetrators' impunity. The recent outrage over detained Palestinian children exposed to...
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January 23, 2014
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Ben White
Dutch pension fund giant PGGM has withdrawn all its investments from Israel's five largest banks because of their complicity in West Bank settlements. The report in Israeli newspaper Haaretz...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
Echoing previous statements regarding Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to recognise the Palestinian right of return, Israeli government officials have declared their refusal of "a symbolic acceptance of the so-called right...
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Israel has confirmed plans to start working on a pipeline to export natural gas to Jordan via the Dead Sea, informed Israeli sources told Bloomberg earlier this week. Work...
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January 23, 2014
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Ben White
Even by the standards of The New York Times' news coverage, a recent Jodi Rudoren piece on "incitement" by Palestinians was abysmal. Based on the article's word count, an...
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January 23, 2014
Yasser Abu Hilalah
Other than the fact that they both graduated from the Military Academy, it is hard to find any similarities between the late president Gamal Abdel Nasser and the future...
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During a political and cultural event organised by the Embassy of Palestine in Cuba and the Arab Union of Cuba, representatives of both organisations reiterated the importance of revolutionary...
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They feared that he would appear like a lion behind bars, so they hid him at an undisclosed location and claimed falsely that he could not be transported to...
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The British parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee held a special session on Tuesday to listen to the Palestinian and Israeli ambassadors to the UK, as well as Middle East...
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January 23, 2014
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Samira Shackle
The conflict in Syria is nothing if not complicated. Over the course of the conflict, which has now raged for two and a half years, the opposition to President...
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January 23, 2014
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Ben White
Ariel Sharon, after fighting with the Haganah during the Nakba, went on to head up Unit 101, forces whose activities, in the words of Eyal Weizman, "mostly constituted the...
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January 23, 2014
Middle East Monitor
A resident in Gaza has made himself an electric car to beat the fuel shortage and long queues at the petrol stations across the Gaza Strip. Although Monther Al-Qassas...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
During the Arab Spring social media channels were elevated to heroic status. Tunisian Facebook pages bore the slogan 'Ben Ali, Out', a harsh signal to the former president in...
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January 23, 2014
Summ Khan
The images of Gaza you see on the news are only half of the story. Images of destruction, reconstruction, poverty and conflict do not do justice to the lives...
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January 23, 2014
Sara Khorshid
The incident about the subway ad sponsored by anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller ("In any war between the civilized man and the savage support the civilized man. Support Israel, defeat...
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January 23, 2014
Dr. Ilyas Mohammed
The anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims, was brought from obscurity by the Egyptian television, al-Nas, and transformed by interested parties into a means to mobilize Muslims across the world...
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January 23, 2014
Karen Dabrowska
I love the spiritual side of Ramadan in London," Houda Mizioudet from Tunisia who is holidaying in London told the Tripoli Post. I don't like Ramadan in Tunisia. I...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Women wearing luminous orange vests and huge red rubber gloves sort through the cans and plastic bags passing by on the conveyor belt before them. The masks that cover...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
If you have a craving for coffee in the middle of the night in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, it's not difficult to find a café that's open 24/7. The...