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May 14, 2014

Israel refused to anchor Russian missile ship in Haifa

Israel rejected a Russian request one month ago to anchor a missile ship in the port of Haifa, Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed on Wednesday. An Israeli official told the...

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May 14, 2014

Hamas recognises differences with Fatah but stresses importance of unity

Senior member of Hamas’s political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouk recognised on Tuesday that there are differences between his movement and Fatah, but he stressed the importance of unity and reaching...

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May 14, 2014

The illusive peace: the legacy of Oslo 20 years on

In 1993, the Oslo accords launched a transitional process that was supposed to end in May 1999 with a Palestinian state in all of the West Bank, including Jerusalem,...

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May 14, 2014

Oslo's Roots: Kissinger, the PLO, and the Peace Process

Al-shabaka policy brief Overview U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s highly publicized efforts to foster negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Oslo...

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May 14, 2014

Israel's arrest campaign against Palestinian parliamentarians

Introduction According to international law and even the Israeli legal system, no one should be detained for their political beliefs. However, this is not the reality in the occupied...

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May 14, 2014

Weighing up the Jordanian-Palestinian Confederation

Introduction The idea of a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation, which first emerged four decades ago, has resurfaced in recent months and is creating something of a controversy. The origins of the...

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May 14, 2014

The Coalition between Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu's Likud Party and Avigdor Lieberman's Ultranationalist Yisrael Beitnu party

,p>Prior to Operation Pillar of Defence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party Likud had been declining in popularity. Netanyahu was also threatened by an opposition alliance of the former...

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May 14, 2014

EU-Israel Association Agreement upgraded?

The EU-Israel Association Agreement is the legal framework upon which relations between Israel and the European Union are based. It was signed in 1995 and came into effect in...

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May 14, 2014

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails: Their legal status and their rights

Introduction The status of prisoners of war is a very complicated issue in international humanitarian law. Many people think – wrongly – that all of the Palestinian prisoners in...

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May 14, 2014

Freedom and Justice Party: Egypt fails to get false information from the UK

The head of the committee of foreign affairs in the Freedom and Justice Party, Mohamed Sudan, has said that Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi returned from the UK with...

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