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April 18, 2014

Al-Sisi's bicycle

Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi chose to begin his presidential campaign in Egypt by riding a bicycle valued at 40,000 Egyptian Pounds in an empty street with no vehicles other than...

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April 18, 2014

Haifa University launches course in pro-Israel propaganda

The University of Haifa has launched an academic course to combat the online “delegitimization of Israel”, in what it claims to be a “first” for academia. In a press...

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April 18, 2014

An anxious BICOM misrepresents negotiations breakdown

Prominent UK-based Israel lobby group BICOM (Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre) is worried. Not only are BDS campaigns on the up – prompting the publication of a booklet...

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April 18, 2014

Rejecting resistance, defending acceptance

“In response to the Palestinian violation of their commitments under peace talks…Israeli government ministers have been told to refrain from meeting their Palestinian counterparts,” reported the Times of Israel....

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April 18, 2014

Israel is an unprincipled entity

I remember standing outside the White House lawn on March 26 1979, protesting the signing of Camp David accord between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the ex-wanted British terrorist...

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April 18, 2014

Tension grips Saudi-US alliance

At the end of March, US President Barack Obama made his first visit to Saudi Arabia since Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power in Egypt in 2011. The fall...

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April 18, 2014

Palestinian prisoners' struggle disappearing from mainstream narrative

After Israel predictably failed to uphold its terms in the agreement, as confirmed by foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, to release the fourth group of Palestinian political prisoners, the Ma’an...

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April 18, 2014

The Iraqi elections: Nouri Al-Maliki and his opponents

The Iraqi parliamentary elections will be held on April 30th at a time when the political arena continues to be marked by an increasing number of conflicts and fragmentation....

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April 18, 2014

Why is Israel opposed to Palestine joining international treaties?

Last week, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that he had accepted the application of Palestinians to join 13 international UN conventions. Significantly, these include the Geneva...

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April 18, 2014

From ethnic cleansing to return: a peace process worthy of the name

This week marks the 66th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Miska, a Palestinian village whose roughly 1,000-strong population was expelled in April 1948 by Haganah forces. Located around...

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