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January 24, 2014
Ufuk Ulutas & Sabrien Amrov
The Arab Spring arrived 10 years after George W. Bush declared the advent of the "war on terror". The events of September 11 allowed the Bush administration to launch...
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January 24, 2014
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Yassir Zaatreh
Syria's apparent use of chemical weapons provides a good excuse for an American-Western military intervention in Syria. If the West was driven by the immorality of killing on a...
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I am a peace activist but at the moment one wrestling with her conscience because, in truth, if someone gave me a gun and Syria's President Bashar al-Assad strolled...
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January 24, 2014
Ali Jaradat
Since America became the leader of the "free world", interference in the independence and sovereignty of nation states around the globe has become a permanent fixture of US foreign...
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January 24, 2014
Ismail Adam Patel
Visiting Aleppo in late July was one of the most horrendous journeys I have ever undertaken. Travelling in a convoy of 30 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid, my initial...
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January 24, 2014
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Sophie Cousins
Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled the crisis in their war-ravaged homeland, leaving behind family, friends and their livelihoods. Escaping with little more than the clothes on...
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January 24, 2014
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Wadah Khanfar
There's little trust in America's motives, and an airstrike would not stop the brutal slaughter of civilians. Far better to help the rebels directly The Arab world has longed...
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January 24, 2014
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Samira Shackle
As the eyes of the world turn to Syria, the Egyptian crisis is continuing. This week, it was announced that deposed president Mohammed Morsi and 14 of his Muslim...
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January 24, 2014
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Jessica Purkiss
On Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem to Israel, a young Jewish settler was asked if his country is an apartheid state. His reply was...
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January 24, 2014
Al Quds Newspaper
If President Barack Obama has disappointed the Syrian opposition by seeking congressional approval for an attack on Syria, he did the same to America's allies in the Middle East....
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January 24, 2014
Majed Kayali
Given the involvement and degree of relative success of the Islamic movements perhaps we should be referring to the "Islamic Spring", not the "Arab" version. It is worth considering...
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January 24, 2014
Dr Azzam Tamimi
I've just watched on Al-Jazeera Arabic with interest, amusement and amazement the first part of a new documentary called "The Price of Oslo" produced by Al-Jazeera Programmes Department as...
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January 24, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
The Egyptian army and Israel have grown much closer in the weeks since the coup d'etat. In a Ha'aretz report, Amos Harel, suggested that the Egyptian and Israeli relationship...
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January 24, 2014
Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi
Debates have taken place around the world about the crimes committed in Syria, the most worrying of which was the death and injury of thousands due to the use...
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January 24, 2014
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Yassir Zaatreh
The campaign to remove Hamas from government in Gaza has started: a "rebellion" movement has been announced; journalists have been invited to meet its "secret" leader; and Fatah's Azzam...
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January 24, 2014
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Abdel Bari Atwan
US Secretary of State John Kerry is prepared to say anything in order to rally support for Barack Obama's plans for a military attack against Syria, including outright lies....
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January 24, 2014
Namir Shabibi
"When more Yemeni children attend school and learn to read, they are better able to contribute to this great nation—as knowledgeable and skilled citizens. This is our dream." So...
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January 24, 2014
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Nabil Al-Sahli
One of the blunders of modern science was the creation of weapons that can spread toxins and disease within a matter of minutes. However international awareness about the dangers...
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January 24, 2014
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Nabil Al-Bukiri
The fallout from the coup in Egypt includes a number of answers to questions regarding political and security issues since the fall of the Soviet Union. The collapse of...
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January 24, 2014
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Ibrahim Hewitt
The world has been transfixed by events in Egypt and Syria, with the West's moral conscience missing over the former but resurfacing on the latter thanks to the use...
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The official Jordanian position on what is happening in Syria remains unclear. After nearly two years of revolution in Syria, Jordan has tried to distance itself as much as...
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January 24, 2014
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Jessica Purkiss
Last week, Congress was due to vote on a resolution which would authorize US President Barak Obama to conduct "limited" military strikes, aimed at "deterring" Syria's leader Bashar Al-Assad...
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January 24, 2014
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Fahmi Huwaidi
I'm not sure if we are all aware of the extensive efforts taking place around us in order to use the "failure" of the Muslim Brotherhood's year in office...
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January 24, 2014
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Yassir Zaatreh
The conspiracy against the Syrian Revolution has never been more pronounced than it is now after the deal to rid the country of its chemical weapons. It is clear...
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January 24, 2014
Majed Kayali
Two decades after the Oslo Accords, and many violations of its terms and much delusion, the Palestinian Authority established as a result of the agreement appears to be facing...
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January 24, 2014
Amr Salahi
Part 1: A green light to Assad Ever since the Syrian regime gassed its own citizens in the Damascus suburbs in a chemical attack on August 21, the issue...
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January 24, 2014
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Dr Fayez Rasheed
The ill-fated Oslo Accords, signed 20 years ago, have only made Israel more arrogant and open about its disregard of the Palestinians' national rights. Illegal settlements and their infrastructure...
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January 24, 2014
Amr Salahi
Part 2: The destruction of a people On Monday, the residents of Kafr Zeita, a town in north central Syria, were retrieving the corpses of their loved ones from...
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January 24, 2014
Yasmin Khaled
The Revolution Leadership Council in Damascus (RLCD) For a long time, I thought commentary about the international community's 'inaction' and 'impotence' and the rest of it has become clichés...
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January 24, 2014
Ghazi Dahman
After 30 months of violence, Syria appears to have collapsed and is almost lifeless. More than two-thirds of the population are in danger and much of the infrastructure has...
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January 24, 2014
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Motasem A Dalloul
In 2006, the US, Israel, Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority (PA), dominated by the secular Fatah movement, decided to end the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation. They...
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January 24, 2014
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Alice Su
Jonathan Brenneman packed for his second attempt at crossing the Jordan-West Bank border with a jacket, fully charged iPod, letters of official invitation and 500-page collection of Flannery O'Connor...