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The coup leaders lost their minds and their insight the day they conspired against legitimacy, captured the elected president, Mohammed Morsi, and carried out a bloody military coup on...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Last Wednesday opposition activists in Syria reported over 1,000 dead after a gruesome attack in which rockets with chemical weapons were launched into the Ghouta area of Damascus. Doctors...
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January 23, 2014
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Samira Shackle
According to this morning's newspapers, the US and UK are finalising plans for a military strike on Syria. The attack is a response to the alleged use of chemical...
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January 23, 2014
Dr. Sudhanshu Tripathi
With the west serious about an attack on Syria on the grounds that the regime used chemical weapons last week, the ongoing crisis has taken a dangerous turn. Although...
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Instead of rushing to judgement, the Arab League states meeting in Cairo this week should have waited for the report of the UN weapons inspectors before handing the reins...
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A leader of Egypt's National Chamber of Commerce has joined the political and military attacks against the Muslim Brotherhood by labelling it a terrorist organisation. Ahmed El-Wakil, President of...
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January 23, 2014
Lama Khater
Suddenly, blood no longer holds any weight between brothers and no one affiliates with the common thread of Arabism. Talk of an Arab army's aggression towards Gaza is normalised...
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January 23, 2014
Hatem Azzam
A noted news correspondent for ABC in America, Martha Raddatz, could not hide her distaste and surprise as she told viewers of the recent comments made by Hazem El-Beblawi,...
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Some people wonder whether there is a link between the Ghouta massacre in Damascus committed by the Assad regime and the massacre committed by Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in the...
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January 23, 2014
Mahmoud Omar
Despite the poor living conditions of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Egyptians living in Palestine are, it is alleged, compiling lists of people they believe are "infringing" on...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
The continuation of peace talks between Israel and Palestine are being portrayed as a failure by both sides. Despite the apparently shared sentiment by Israeli and Palestinian alike, any...
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January 23, 2014
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Samira Shackle
Today marks the 20-year anniversary of the Oslo Accords, the 1993 attempt to set up a framework that would end the Israel-Palestine conflict. It was the first time that...
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Pictures released yesterday from Sinai showed the deployment of armoured vehicles and an army bulldozer destroying one of the tunnels to Gaza. We have also read reports about the...
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January 23, 2014
Hatem Azzam
The murder of Khaled Dumian, a member of the supreme council of Egypt's Social Democratic Party, and his cousin in Sahel Selim in Asyut by thugs recruited by the...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
An interview with Angela Merkel in Jewish Voice From Germany serves as an illuminating albeit expected insight into diplomatic efforts to elevate Israel into further immunity. Through a discussion...
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January 23, 2014
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Samira Shackle
For years, the relationship between America and Iran has been characterised by mutual distrust and outright hostility. During Barack Obama's presidency, the decade-long tension over Iran's nuclear programme has...
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The UN report into the Gouta chemical weapons massacre does not shine favourably on Russia and Syria. Much to their chagrin, the publication of the report coincided with the...
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Lest it be forgotten, let us remind ourselves that the Palestinians do not have a state or even a quasi-state; we live under military occupation. Israeli murders and attacks...
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Some Arab circles which backed the coup in Egypt are quoted as saying that what has happened is a step towards wiping out the Muslim Brotherhood in the region,...
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January 23, 2014
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Samira Shackle
The power of lobby groups in Washington has been well-documented. Whether their interest is in oil, tobacco, or international affairs, these unelected bodies have significant power over both parties...
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January 23, 2014
Shaaban Abdel Rahman
The Muslim Brotherhood, which was dissolved this week due to the issuance of a coup court injunction, is 85 years old (est. 1928). During this time it lived under...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
Obama's speech at the United Nations General Assembly was replete with imperialist references based upon the mainstream interpretation of history. Commencing with a glorification of the UN within a...
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Ahead of Mahmoud Abbas's speech to the United Nations today, 100 US Jewish leaders wrote to the Palestinian president urging him to announce publicly that he is giving up...
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January 23, 2014
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Samira Shackle
On Thursday 26 September, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met in New York. It was part of a wider meeting between...
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The most recent actions carried out by the coup in Egypt involve raiding Egyptian cities and villages with tanks armed with cannons in order to protect the planes flying...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
The Al Aqsa intifada was marked with escalating rhetoric of resistance by Hamas, overshadowing the attempt by Abbas to address violations embedded within the conflict since the Oslo agreements....
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January 23, 2014
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Samira Shackle
The last few weeks have seen a softening of rhetoric between the leaders of Iran and the USA. The new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has been on something of...
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The judiciary which now takes its orders from General Al-Sisi and his coup leader cronies has issued a ruling to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood; that sums up all that...
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Tensions between Israel and Iran are a given, but have been in the news this week. This was because of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the United...
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January 23, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
In a meeting with Israeli Labour MKs held in Ramallah, Mahmoud Abbas simplified the ramifications of Israel's illegal occupation in light of the peace negotiations, expressing optimism and stating...
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January 23, 2014
Mustafa Al-Sawwaf
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that the on-going negotiations with the Palestinians have achieved nothing and are in the same place as when they began. This was...
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January 23, 2014
Shaaban Abdel Rahman
With the beginning of the national dialogue sessions last Saturday, Tunisia has triumphed over those who have planned, conspired and tried desperately to help coup forces inside and outside...