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An Israeli law lecturer has called the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan a "puppet state" which had never existed in reality or on a map and whose people are "a...
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Middle East,
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The Israeli occupation forces have blocked the preparatory work on an agricultural wells project funded by Norwegian People's Aid in the occupied West Bank. The project was being implemented...
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Middle East,
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Human rights campaigner Mazin Qumsiyeh has published online the Charter of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in order to remind everyone, Palestinians included, that the charter has never been amended...
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Middle East,
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his Facebook page on Tuesday to insist that he refuses to advance the peace process with the Palestinians. Netanyahu was seeking to counter...
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Middle East,
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A former Speaker of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, has declared that the 1993 Oslo Accords "are dead". Avraham Burg added that finding a solution to the conflict between the...
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Middle East,
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EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian fishermen do not trust Israel's announcement that they will be allowed to work up to six nautical miles offshore. They fear that this could be a...
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Middle East,
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Veteran Fatah politician Abdul Aziz Shahin, known by his kunya of Abu Ali, has passed away, aged 80. He died on Tuesday morning after spending weeks in Al-Shifa Hospital...
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Middle East,
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Two days ahead of John Kerry's visit to the Middle East in an attempt to jumpstart peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis, a member of Israel's ruling coalition has...
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Middle East,
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Media reports in Israel claim that the government is going to vote on the Palestine prisoner release plan prior to the first round of talks with the Palestinians expected...
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Middle East,
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An activist for prisoners' issues, Fo'ad Al-Khofosh, has called on the Palestinian Authority to clarify the terms of the prisoner release deal agreed with Israel as part of the...
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Middle East,
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A recent Israeli study accused the deposed Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi, of planning to annul the Camp David peace Accords signed in 1978 between Egypt and Israel. The study...
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Middle East,
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According to Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights, Israel still has a number of prisoners from Jerusalem who have been in prison since before the signing of...
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Middle East,
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Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon has criticised the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and refuses to consider the evacuation of settlements in the occupied West Bank to be negotiable. "The negotiations...
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Middle East,
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Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister appears to be waging a campaign against the creation of a Palestinian state on land occupied by Israel since 1967. Zeev Elkin has expressed his...
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Middle East,
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Oxfam has said that life for the Palestinians is worse now than when the Oslo Accord was signed 20 years ago. The current negotiations, claimed the aid organisation, have...
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Middle East,
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A Palestinian rights centre has revealed that hundreds of Palestinians are serving life sentences in Israeli jails. The Al-Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights said in a...
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Middle East,
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In an op-ed for the New York Times, Israel's Deputy Defence Minister Danny Danon has called upon Israel to annul the Oslo Accords. Danon says that despite repeated rounds...
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Middle East,
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Israeli media reported on Wednesday that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to release the second batch of Palestinian prisoners two weeks early in order for them to...
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Middle East,
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The Islamic Resistance Movement; Hamas has paid tribute to Nelson Mandela saying he was one of the most important symbols of freedom in the world. A member of Hamas...
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Middle East,
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EXCLUSIVE IMAGES In the early hours of December 31st 2013, 18 Palestinians who had been locked-up within the Israeli prison system since before the Oslo accords received a hero's...
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In a desperate effort to push forward the peace process, on Friday evening US Secretary of State John Kerry met the Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in the...
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Donors will not continue to subsidise the Palestinian Authority forever and if Palestinian-Israeli talks do not make any progress, donations could be stopped according to the Norwegian foreign minister,...
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The Middle East Monitor, in coordination with Spinwatch, have released a report into the work of the British Israel Communications and Research Centre. The report, Giving Peace a Chance...
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Earlier this month, Oxfam published 20 facts about Oslo that painfully illustrate why the "peace talks" between Israel and Palestine have abysmally failed. In the past ten years alone,...
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Activism,
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
The 13th of September will mark 20 years since the White House lawn signing ceremony between Yasser Arafat and Yitzak Rabin, flanked by former US President Bill Clinton. The...
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Article,
Inquiry
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
This past week marked a decade since the sad, early passing-away by cancer of Edward Said, and I would like to dedicate this column to him. Edward Said was...
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Article,
Inquiry
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January 28, 2014
Saeed Eraikat
The US State Department is circulating a confidential letter urging European Union (EU) members and other "friendly" countries to help block Palestinian attempts to secure non-member Observer State status...
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January 28, 2014
Hani Almasri
US President Barack Obama will pay a visit to the Middle East next month. This will be his first trip to Israel in particular since his election in 2008...
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The Palestinian national project is experiencing a loss of direction which prevents progress and blocks opportunities to take advantage of the enormous potential of the Palestinian people. The route...
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January 25, 2014
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Nabil Al-Sahli
In recent weeks the Palestinian territories have witnessed a wave of demonstrations by citizens demanding better living conditions. The worsening economic crisis has had a serious impact on the...
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January 25, 2014
Peter Oborne
It is impossible to understand the modern Conservative Party without a grasp of the scale and profundity of its links to the state of Israel. The connection dates back...
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January 25, 2014
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Jamal Kanj
A DAY after the UN vote to upgrade Palestine's status at the UN, the right-wing Israeli government responded by adding 3,500 illegal Jewish-only homes in the occupied West Bank...