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  • January 24, 2014

    Conspicuous Arab abstention from International Jerusalem Day

    Last week, Iran celebrated International Jerusalem Day with angry demonstrations marching in its various cities including the capital Tehran and was attended by hundreds of thousands, chanting anti-Zionist slogans...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Direct negotiations; a goal for Israelis …a means for Palestinians

    By Raghid el-Solh At the start of these direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, many questions were raised about the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s, real position...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Your apology is not convincing

    By Abdel Bari Atwan It was right that the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad did apologize for the actions of elements within the security apparatus under his authority. They...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Palestinian negotiators back to square one

    By Bilal Al-Hassan Palestinian acceptance of direct negotiations with Israel without preconditions is in effect a return to square one in the process of political settlement between the two...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Resuming negotiations and the "carrot" of reassurances

    By Dr Ahmed Yusuf Ahmed The US administration has decided to commence direct negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians on 2nd September. The Palestinian Authority accepted the invitation...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The repressive Palestinian state

    A symposium planned by the Popular and Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the People’s Party (formerly the Communist party) has been prohibited by the Palestinian Security...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Why is Israel afraid of our cemeteries?

    By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban After demolishing all the houses of Al-Arakib, the Israeli occupation authorities razed the village cemetery, completely erasing the memory and history of this Palestinian village,...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Palestinians in Israel complain to the United Nations

    By Mohamed Mohsen Watad – Umm al-Fahm A complaint is to be lodged with the human rights agencies of the UN about the intensification of house demolitions in the...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Palestinian Authority lowers the volume of call to prayer so as not to disturb Israeli settlers

    By Yasser Al-Za’atraPalestinians across the West Bank noticed it before the facts were revealed in the Israeli media: the volume of the call to prayer (azan) from mosques in...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The concept of Israeli security and the illusion of peace

    By Prof Abdullah Al Ash’al The Arab Initiative’s mandate to hold direct negotiations with Israel which was the result of its Committee meeting on July 29th 2010 is bound...

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