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May 4, 2014

My husband, Khader Adnan, has shed a light on Israel's disregard for human rights

The name of my husband, Khader Adnan, has now become known across the world. Four months ago he was unknown outside of our homeland, Palestine. His hunger strike of...

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May 4, 2014

From Muhammad Bouazizi to Khadr Adnan, oppressors know that their days are numbered

After sixty days on hunger strike, Palestinian detainee Khadr Adnan remains shackled to a bed in an Israeli hospital in Safad. Mr Adnan is not an Israeli citizen and...

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May 4, 2014

Syria between two massacres: Hama's memory endures

While Russia and China were using their veto to abort a UN security council resolution against the Syrian regime, the news of a massacre in Homs came thick and...

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May 4, 2014

Vested interests and the erosion of government

When Professor Paul Whiteley of the new Essex Centre for the Study of Integrity published his study “Are Britons getting more dishonest?” this month, he didn’t have to wait...

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May 4, 2014

Israeli settlements are an affront to European values

Nick Clegg’s condemnation of Israel’s settlements as “an act of deliberate vandalism” was the understatement of the week, but it still managed to provoke the wrath of the Israeli...

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May 4, 2014

Here we go again - another round of futile negotiations

The bad news from Israel keeps coming thick and fast. If the report by European embassies in Tel Aviv on Israel’s discrimination against Palestinian Arabs was bad, then surely...

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May 4, 2014

When Abbas refuses to be another Antoine Lahad

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has stressed in discussions on the sidelines of reconciliation talks in Cairo that he refuses to let the Palestinian Authority become a security apparatus protecting...

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May 4, 2014

Bethlehem deserves more than a single voice

Throughout 2011, as in previous years, the British political class remained pitifully indifferent to the tragedy of Bethlehem. When the Archbishop of Canterbury moved a debate in the House...

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May 4, 2014

The 'Arab spring' and the west: seven lessons from history

There’s a real sense in which, more than any other part of the former colonial world, the Middle East has never been fully decolonised. Sitting on top of the...

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May 4, 2014

Tunisia leads the way for Arabs striving for democracy

The Arab world is lucky that its spring started in Tunisia, a society of ethnic and sectarian homogeneity distinguished by its high educational standards, civil sentiment and political conscience....

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