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  • March 8, 2014

    Obama turns up the heat on Netanyahu

    Over the last few months, the US president Barack Obama has remained largely silent on the matter of the Israel-Palestine peace process. His secretary of state, John Kerry, has...

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  • March 8, 2014

    Israeli president's comments priorities the fragmentation of Palestinian identity

    In a recent interview with Arab news website Panet, Israeli President Shimon Peres indulged in a discussion about alleged cooperation, while using language which intensified the consistent fragmentation of...

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  • March 8, 2014

    Israel and US hail Egypt's war against Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood

    Egypt is playing the role of Israel in the battle against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, a former military Israeli official said on Thursday. According to Israel Radio, former...

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  • March 8, 2014

    Why did the Gulf states withdraw their ambassadors from Qatar?

    In a collective statement this week, three members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) announced their intention to withdraw their ambassadors from Qatar. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United...

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  • March 8, 2014

    BDS the elephant in the room at this year's AIPAC conference

    When John Kerry, the US secretary of state, attempted to restart the stalled Israel-Palestine peace process, he set a deadline of April 2014 for an agreement. That deadline is...

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  • March 8, 2014

    Ukraine crisis sees Israel lose and Iran win

    Israel has acknowledged that its strategic interests will be harmed if an end is not put to the escalating crisis in Ukraine. It has suggested that Iran will be...

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  • March 8, 2014

    Abbas perfects his capitulation to Israeli demands

    Reports in the Jerusalem Post about Mahmoud Abbas’s latest discourse portrays his capitulation to Israeli demands, even as the PA President reiterates his remote threat to resort to international...

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  • March 8, 2014

    Israel's occupation even suppresses Palestinian football

    Sports exemplify joy, pride and community. For a people without a recognised country, the Palestinian national football team is a source of huge pride. Any harm done to the...

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  • March 8, 2014

    Creating delusions

    After the coup-led government in Egypt failed to bring about anything beneficial or useful to the poor struggling Egyptian people in order to relieve them from their stress and...

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  • March 3, 2014

    The Muslim Brotherhood's deadly mistake

    Everyone makes mistakes, and some may think that the Muslim Brotherhood made a mistake when it first met with ex-intelligence chief Omar Suleiman at the beginning of the January...

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