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The people's revolutions sweeping the Arab world "undermine stability and add possible threats" to the state of Israel, according to the Zionist state's Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny...
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President Mohammed Morsi has used his maiden speech at the UN General Assembly to speak out on behalf of Arab and Muslim issues. Mr. Morsi also told world leaders...
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Ismail Haniyeh, the elected Prime Minister of the Palestinian government in Gaza, has left the territory for a tour of Arab capitals and Turkey. This is his second such...
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A professor of political science at the University of Khartoum has rejected the notion that the Arab revolutions have been instigated by the West, particularly the USA, in order...
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A leading Egyptian intellectual and political commentator has said that the Arab revolutions open the way for the birth of a new political era and paradigm shift in which...
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A member of the General Secretariat of the World Federation for Human Rights, Dr. Ali Mohamed Alsalabi, has warned of plots against the popular Arab uprisings which toppled despots...
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A Kuwaiti political party has denounced the detention campaigns being carried out by governments belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council. Al-Omah Party said that "reformers, scholars, politicians, writers and...
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The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyyah, on Sunday stressed the strength of Palestinian-Egyptian relations saying, "No one can spoil them." The PM firmly ruled out any threat...
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January 25, 2014
Rashid Khalidi
Towards the end of his long, eventful life, in 1402, the renowned Arab historian Ibn Khaldun was in Damascus. He left us a description of Taymur's siege of the...
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January 25, 2014
Omar Radwan
The revolutions taking place across the Arab world have taken the spotlight away from an ongoing issue which Israel would like the world to forget: the siege of Gaza,...
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January 25, 2014
Majed Kayali
Two opposing phenomena are interacting in the Middle East; the first is Israel, moving back to the past with its policies, laws and ideology, looking ever more like a...
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January 25, 2014
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Nabil Al-Sahli
Israeli researchers have been preoccupied from the very first days of the Arab revolutions to analyse the possible consequences for Israel; the Israeli establishment has not disguised its fear...
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January 25, 2014
Mahmoud Al-Mubarak
Now that the results of Egypt's presidential elections have been declared, it is left to be seen exactly how much power the ruling junta will relinquish. With the proclamation...
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January 25, 2014
Robert Fisk
When Rached Ghannouchi met Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali – before Mr Ghannouchi wisely exiled himself to London as an enemy of the dictatorship – a very odd thing happened....
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January 25, 2014
Majed Kayali
Since the onset of the Arab Spring two years ago, with its public protests in the streets and squares of many Arab cities, it has become clear that there...
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January 25, 2014
Dr Saleh Al-Naami
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was keen to draw attention to his success in incorporating the Movement Party, led by former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, in his latest coalition...
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January 25, 2014
Dr Saleh Al-Na'ami
In just a few weeks, Israel plans on extracting gas from the "Tamar" and "Leviathan" gas fields, which were discovered dozens of kilometers into the waters northwest of Haifa. ...
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January 25, 2014
Dr. Bashir Musa Nafi
In response to the threat made to him by the Turkish foreign minister that he is about to face the same fate of Saddam Hussein or Qaddafi, Syria's President...
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January 24, 2014
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Dr Fadi Elhusseini
Spring is a time for optimism, with the green shoots of summer pushing through after a long winter. Alas, things in the Middle East are now very different. With...