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Items by Zulaikha Abdullah
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Bad News From Israel
Bad News from Israel is an authoritative, eye-opening and highly readable empirical study by the world renowned Glasgow University Media Group. It tackles and supports long standing lamentations about modern news values and practices such as its failure to explain and analyze more fully; its use of official voices...
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Israel’s Domestic Ticking Time Bomb
Briefing Paper – June 2010 “Israel has enjoyed strong economic growth over the last decade, but the benefits of this are being distributed unevenly. Poverty rates are higher than in any OECD country, which reflects the deep social and economic divides in Israeli society.”1According to most reports, Israel’s economy has managed...
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An analysis of the Tory foreign policy framework toward the Middle East
Briefing Paper – April 2010 Last month, Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, outlined a new foreign policy framework for a future Conservative government to an audience at RUSI – the Royal United Services Institute. Its fundamental premise was the need to preserve Britain’s role as a major player on the world...
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Reckless Posturing Sparks Renewed Tensions Between Syria and Israel
Briefing Paper – Feb 2010 Key Points Israel’s continued threats and belligerence toward its neighbouring states could plunge the region into all-out war. Given the current regional dynamics, it would be most prudent for Israel to come to a comprehensive peace agreement with the strategically placed Syria in order to avoid...
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Armistice Now - New Bottle, Old Wine
Briefing Paper – Mar 2010The March/April 2010 addition of Foreign Affairs1 features an article entitled ‘Armistice Now’ written by the Lafer International Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Middle East Commentator for Channel 2 News in Israel, Ehud Yari. The article’s central paradigm asserts that Israel...
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The Middle East Peace Process, 2003 - Present
Background ‘The Peace Process’ is the term that has come to be used to describe Middle Eastern diplomacy and peace negotiations following the 1967 War in which Israel on one side attacked its neighbours, Egypt, Jordan and Syria on the other. It has taken shape over many years and refers...
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Israeli Settler Violence against Palestinian Civilians
Israeli Settler Violence against Palestinian Civilians in the Occupied West Bank and Jerusalem “The holy martyr, Baruch Goldstein, is from now on our intercessor in heaven. Goldstein did not act as an individual; he heard the cry of the land of Israel, which is being stolen from us day after...