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  • March 24, 2014

    Palestinian refugees will determine the future of the Middle East

    The US Secretary of State plans to disregard the Palestinian refugees’ right of return and resettle them in Jordan, Gulf countries, Australia and Canada. John Kerry is aware that...

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  • March 24, 2014

    Al-Assad: learning lessons from Serbia's Milosevic

    This week the most conclusive evidence of Syria’s brutal regime was smuggled out of the country, into the hands of leading international lawyers and released to the public; photographs...

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  • March 24, 2014

    The state of Egypt's revolution, three years later

    The Muslim Brotherhood has survived three major crackdowns in its 80 year history with its reformist agenda in tact. One under the monarchy in 1949, and two under Nasser...

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  • March 24, 2014

    Intimidation of John Kerry

    Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon articulated publicly what Israeli leaders say privately: Give us your tax money, weapons and your veto power but “leave us alone.” He called the...

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  • March 22, 2014

    Crisis files challenge everyone in Egypt

    A resolution to the crisis in Egypt doesn’t look as if it is on the agenda as we enter the revolution’s fourth year. This should not surprise us, as...

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  • March 22, 2014

    Catherine Ashton, the EU and Egypt: A different kind of democracy

    Catherine Ashton, the EU Foreign Affairs High Representative, remains the only foreign official to have met with ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during his detention. Shortly after the coup...

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  • March 22, 2014

    US rationale for turning to Iran

    The interim agreement between Iran and the P5 +1 world powers (the United States, Russia, Britain, France, China and Germany) in Geneva on November 24 last year, which saw...

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  • March 22, 2014

    The motives behind the bureaucratic assault on politics in Turkey

    One recent tweet summed up the feelings of many of its own citizens about Turkey: “It would have been a very enjoyable country if only we weren’t its citizens.”...

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  • March 22, 2014

    Russia set to step into the Gulf as Washington looks to Iran

    Russia is keen to capitalise on the opportunities presented by the Iranian nuclear deal, as Gulf states become open to working with new international partners. However, it’s unclear the...

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  • March 22, 2014

    Three goals for making the most of Geneva II on Syria

    The Geneva II conference on Syria, first announced by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in September 2013, will finally convene in Switzerland...

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