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Remembrance and solidarity with Palestinians have once again been voiced in commemoration of the United Nations' resolution which lacerated Palestine, paving the way for decades of perfected massacres since...
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January 23, 2014
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Ben White
This Saturday, November 30, Palestinian activists will rally against plans for the ethnic cleansing of the Naqab/Negev in an internationally-observed 'Day of Rage'. The third such day in a...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
On November 15 2013 Palestine and Bolivia formally declared the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations during a United Nations session. The Bolivian permanent representative to the United Nations, Sacha...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
The latest poll by Zogby Research Services LLC, released to the public this week, has revealed that Egyptians are divided over the toppling of Mohammed Morsi. 51% believe he...
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January 23, 2014
Hilmy Al-Asmar
A constellation of Egypt's girls, a bunch of jasmine flowers, all in their teens, were yesterday cramped inside a cage to be tried, and for what? For thuggery. The...
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The Egyptian judiciary has met its Creator after its judges killed and buried it having subjected themselves to the coup government, being tempted by its gold and afraid of...
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Israel's inclusion in the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) by the UN in New York was hailed by allied countries and affiliated organisations as a move which would...
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January 23, 2014
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Samira Shackle
Over the last few years, Egypt has been home to repeated political turmoil. During the Arab Spring revolution in 2011, long-time military dictator Hosni Mubarak was toppled. Subsequent elections...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs published a fact sheet detailing the ramifications of settler-colonialism in Hebron. 'The Humanitarian Impact of Israeli Settlements in Hebron...
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January 23, 2014
Lama Khater
The frequency of talks between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators over the past 20 years has ingrained them in the minds of the people. They invoke negative thoughts associated with...
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January 23, 2014
Dr Saleh Al-Naami
Isaac Herzog, the Chairman of the Israeli Labour Party, has praised the role played by the Egyptian Minister of Defence, General Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi, in pressuring the Palestinian Islamic...
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January 23, 2014
Lama Khater
If you had the chance to notice the graffiti dating back to the first Intifada while walking down a street in Palestine, it would not only evoke the memories...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has travelled to Israel on an official visit, during which "issues related to bilateral cooperation and the situation in the Middle East" are to...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
A published United Nations press release incorporated another bout of concern following Israel's destruction of 30 dwellings in the Jordan Valley which displaced 41 Palestinian civilians, including 24 children....
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January 23, 2014
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Samira Shackle
The international arms trade is impenetrable at best. Deals between different companies and governments are rarely widely reported outside the specialised business press, and the details of such deals...
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January 23, 2014
Shaaban Abdel-Rahman
At Nelson Mandela's memorial service, President Obama criticised world leaders, during his speech, who claim to support Mandela's struggle for freedom, but do not accept their citizen's opposition. Of...
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Recent leaks have confirmed that the treacherous coup leader, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, has said that his dreams drove him to carry out the brutal coup against the legitimate elected...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
A brief report titled 'Council conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process' published yesterday by the Council of the European Union reaffirmed the ongoing trend of normalising Israel's colonisation...
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January 23, 2014
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Samira Shackle
The question of how to secure peace between Israel and Palestine, and what international powers do to secure it has vexed successive generations of politicians and diplomats. In recent...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk has once again elicited criticism over his claim that Israel is harbouring "genocidal" intent. During an interview broadcast on Russia Today, Falk asserted: "When...
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When the Tunisian revolution broke out on 18 December, 2010, no one knew that it would be the first spark of other revolutions in several Arab countries. Nor could...
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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...