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  • January 24, 2014

    Diplomacy on the firing lines

    In a comprehensive strategic sense, Jordan has a number of interests that need to be taken into account as Syria engages in an open civil-sectarian war; first of which...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Is Israel exaggerating or threatening?

    Israel’s Chief of General Staff Benny Gantz and former Head of Military Intelligence General Amos Yadlin have been discussing the situation in Syria and Lebanon, expressing concerns about Islamist...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Al-Maliki is directing Iraq to war once again

    Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have gathered in the squares of six Iraqi cities since the last week of December. During 120 days of public protest against sectarian discrimination...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Iran in Syria mirrors the Soviet Union in Afghanistan

    Only a few months after the fighting in Syria began in earnest I wrote about the Afghan model there. Unfortunately, this has been confirmed over time. After more than...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The outcome of the Israeli threats against Gaza

    150 days after Israel’s last war on the Gaza Strip, security tension has resurfaced without warning. It comes amid preoccupation with pressing regional issues beginning with the enflamed Syria...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Morsi's visits abroad demonstrate a shift in foreign policy priorities

    This week, Egyptian Prime Minister Mohamed Morsi has visited Brazil for the first time. In doing so, he has completed state visits to all of the so-called BRICS countries...

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  • January 24, 2014

    It's all about appeasing...

    US Secretary of State John Kerry has succeeded in tailoring yet another peace initiative to appease Israel. But it took Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu no time to effectively...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The Arab Spring: conspiracies or national will?

    Attempts to analyse the Arab Spring revolutions have included suggestions of foreign conspiracies to divide and rule what is left of the Middle East. Others suggest that the revolutions...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Al Assad is still Israel's strategic choice in Syria

    The Syrian conflict has dragged on for two years and claimed more than 80,000 lives. So far, the west has avoided direct intervention, though the US, Britain and France...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The Price of Statelessness: Palestinian Refugees From Syria

    Tragedy and resistance have been linked to Palestinians’ history since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and it is no surprise that there is an organic relationship between the current...

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