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  • March 29, 2014

    UN envoy Brahimi was right to apologise to the Syrians

    The second round of peace talks on Syria has drawn to a close, with little evidence of any progress. The talks at Geneva were more than a year in...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The political violence of recognising Israel as a Jewish state

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s belligerent insistence upon the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is magnified to the extent that the Zionists’ hegemonic narrative attempts to dispel...

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  • March 29, 2014

    It is no surprise Geneva II failed, a military solution looks likely

    The failure of the Geneva II conference was expected due to the wide gap of understanding between the two delegations and groups of negotiators and each party’s insistence on...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The extent of terrorism in the Arab world

    Theories about terrorism contain all branches of the social sciences, including law, politics, sociology, economics and religion. The definition of terrorism is still not absolute, but in this article...

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  • March 29, 2014

    The failed coup d'état in Libya

    While the most problematic issue facing post-revolution authorities in Egypt and Tunisia has been the economy, besides the deep state and foreign conspiracy, the situation is very different in...

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  • March 29, 2014

    PA's negotiations with Israel unlikely to go anywhere

    The “peace process” freak show shambles on. Since August, Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials have met for secretive meetings supposedly intended to resolve the “conflict”. Under the emerging “framework”...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Even its friends aren't allowed to criticise Israel

    This week, the head of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, travelled to Israel and addressed the Knesset. It did not go according to plan. During Schulz’s speech, several far-right...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Pampering Mubarak and starving Morsi

    It is cruel and very painful to hear news of deposed President Mohammed Morsi, who begged his lawyer, Mohamed Salim Al-Awa, for “a bit of money” just so he...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Food security is high on the agenda for GCC countries

    Food security is high on the agenda for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) this year, with member states convening next month to discuss how a region which imports between...

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  • March 29, 2014

    Unfair peace treaty will hurt Palestinians the most

    Martin Indyk, Australian-American former ambassador to Israel, is the chief envoy for US Secretary of State John Kerry’s Arab-Israeli peace framework. He leads almost all the Jewish American negotiating...

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