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  • March 29, 2014

    Lebanon's public services struggle to cope with refugees

    To date, almost one million Syrian refugees are registered or waiting to be registered in Lebanon, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Every day Lebanon...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Gulf states among world's largest arms importers

    New data released by the Stockhold International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), an authoritative research body covering the global arms trade, shows how UAE and Saudi Arabia are currently the...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The Arab revolutions: between tyranny and cultural heritage

    Did we, the Arabs, truly change after we revolted against our tyrants? Did we truly revolt so we could change? Are we capable of changing simply by overthrowing those...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The fall of the Syrian regime and Lebanon

    There is no need to speculate any further as to when and how the Syrian regime will fall because it has already fallen, specifically in the short battle that...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Choosing capitulation over resistance

    The peace negotiations which have embroiled Palestinians in further loss of land and autonomy have descended into a major capitulation to imperialist demands. Compromised before commencement due to an...

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  • March 29, 2014

    American feebleness in the face of the Israelis

    The reaction of the United States to disparaging comments by Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon was termed by the Israeli press as “unprecedented” and “the harshest ever”. Ya’alon had...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Tourism as a tool to erase Palestinian identity

    At the entrance of a Dead Sea resort located in the West Bank, Palestinian man Hazem paid his 70 shekels admission fee to the women sitting behind the desk....

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  • March 29, 2014

    Reining in Israeli collaborators in Gaza

    Since the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas-ruled Gaza that ended eight days of war in November 2012, both sides have been engaged in what is known as...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Controversial Saudi ban of Brotherhood backfires

    Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation, in an escalation of the campaign to stamp out the group across the region. Saudi Arabia’s decree...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Syria: Either a revolutionary victory or the fall of the regime

    All the parties participating in the Geneva conference (the West, Russia and the Syrian regime) and the Iranians did not embark on this step without considering the implications of...

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