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  • January 25, 2014

    News black-out and political farce over Jerusalem clashes

    Despite their ferocity, last Friday’s clashes in the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa failed to make international headlines. The virtual news black-out was indicative of prevailing attitudes towards Jerusalem as...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel and the looting of Arab natural resources

    In just a few weeks, Israel plans on extracting gas from the “Tamar” and “Leviathan” gas fields, which were discovered dozens of kilometers into the waters northwest of Haifa. ...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Double agent Adnan Yasin avoided sentence under Israeli pressure

    By Zuhair Andraos Yesterday, Israeli reports revealed that the Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, Mossad, was able to plant bugs in Mahmoud Abbas’s (Abu Mazen) office in 1993 while he...

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  • January 25, 2014

    On tenth anniversary, Israel partisans behind Iraq War still at large

    Three years ago this month, I wrote a piece entitled “Who’s to Blame for the Iraq War?” to mark the seventh anniversary of the US invasion. My sole purpose...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Nakba is now 64 years old and counting

    May 2012 sees Israel entering the sixty-fifth year since it was established on the ruins of historic Palestine. Those years have been a colonial journey unprecedented in history. Israel...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Judaisation of Jerusalem

    The Judaisation of Jerusalem has occupied a prominent place in the Arab and Muslim media recently, and is the focus of many statements made by officials and heads of...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Modifying the Egypt-Israel peace treaty

    The question of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was raised after the Eilat incident and its aftermath when six Egyptian border police were killed by Israel. In...

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  • January 25, 2014

    From Damascus to Sanaa, Cairo and Tunis: changing the course of history is inevitable

    In response to the threat made to him by the Turkish foreign minister that he is about to face the same fate of Saddam Hussein or Qaddafi, Syria’s President...

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  • January 25, 2014

    UNESCO and Jerusalem

    The recent reference by the United Nations Educational, Science and Culture Organisation (UNESCO) to the occupied city of Jerusalem as the “capital of Israel” was both surprising and contrary...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Hamas and recognition: goals and cautions

    The clampdown on Hamas continues: despite some clear sky here and there, the demands are the same; recognition of Israel as a Jewish state in exchange for recognition of...

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