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  • January 25, 2014

    Relations between Egypt and Israel in the wake of the revolution

    In the wake of the revolution, there are real indications that Egypt’s foreign policy has a new source and purpose. The appointment of Dr Nabil El-Arabi, who is known...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Egypt and Hamas - a historic moment

    With the signing of the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement in Cairo on 4th May, Egypt recorded a historic development in its relationship with the Palestinian cause. The most prominent chapter...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Where are the Arab billions?

    “Arab oil is not more important than Arab blood.” These are the memorable words of the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, uttered soon after the outbreak of the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Egypt's Second Grassroots Resurgence

    The Egyptian people must still yet overturn an overbearing force that has marginalized them for generations: top-down government control of budgets and local development.  Egypt’s central government administration consumes...

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  • January 25, 2014

    On the anniversary of the Nakba, demands for the right of return grow louder

    The sixty-third anniversary of the Nakba witnessed a number of important events set up by Palestinian refugees in Arab countries surrounding Palestine, in the Diaspora, and inside the occupied...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel has lost touch with reality

    We will probably never really know if, as Israel’s Prime Minister claimed, Iran and Syria orchestrated the Nakba demonstrations which led to the deaths of at least 12 Palestinians...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Selective Justice

    At a press conference held on 18 May in The Hague, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, announced that he was seeking warrants, in accordance with...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Welcome Hamas' conciliation with Fatah

    The birth of the Cairo reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas was slow and painful. But Palestinians welcomed its arrival. The tragic division which occurred in our national movement...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The vision of Jordan's National Front for Reform

    Former Jordanian Prime Minister Ahmad Obaidat has unveiled the vision of the new National Front for Reform in a press conference in Amman. Mr. Obaidat set out the plans...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel's PM is out to block peace in the Middle East, again

    Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has been very active in the last week in deploring the unity deal between Palestine’s two main parties, Hamas and Fatah. Netanyahu has even...

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