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  • March 29, 2014

    Jordan and the deadly files

    In December 2002, Jordan’s King Abdullah II visited Washington. This was about three months before the Americans launched their war on Iraq. On his way to the American capital,...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Iran sanctions bill's demise shatters the myth of AIPAC's invincibility

    As top diplomats from Iran, the European Union and six world powers convene in Vienna this week to negotiate the terms of a long-term agreement on Iran’s controversial nuclear...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The right of return is for individuals to decide, not for Abbas to concede

    Yet again, we hear that President Mahmoud Abbas has more or less conceded the lawful right for Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland. Last year he told Israelis...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Searching for the other Israel

    A recent article by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy has become somewhat of an internet phenomenon. Since its publication, there are those who believe Levy’s works to be a conspiracy...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Settler couple suing Bedouin community over fumes from bread oven

    An Israeli settler couple are attempting to sue a Bedouin community over the fumes being emitted from their bread oven. Yaakov and Bareket Goldstein from the illegal Israeli settlement...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Myths and facts about Turkey's Gülen movement

    The recent crisis in Turkish democracy, caused by the attempted bureaucratic coup by followers of the Gülen Movement against the civilian government, has led to a plethora of Western...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The right of return for Jewish refugees

    Israeli voices are calling for the right of return for Jewish people to their “historic homeland” and say that the time has come for them to return and be...

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  • March 29, 2014

    What's next after the 'demonisation' of Hamas?

    I read a story in Egypt’s Al-Akhbar newspaper last month which suggested that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) had sent brigades led by the “Mujahid” Ahmed Jabari to...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Ramiya: Under threat of erasure in the Galilee

    “There used to be a water well here but they’ve destroyed it too”. 49-year-old construction worker Salah Swaid, or Abu Nazih as many refer to him, has been organizing...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Federalism and Yemen's great game

    Overshadowed by the Civil War in Syria, Yemen a troubled state on the periphery of the Middle East, is in danger of becoming a new site for proxy war...

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