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January 24, 2014

What peace are they talking about?

The construction of 1,200 housing units in the occupied West Bank does not threaten the peace process, although Israel finds it difficult to accept the “unfair accusations” that activities...

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January 24, 2014

Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations

The late Palestinian writer, Emile Habibi has coined the Arabic word “AlMutashail” out of the two halves of the Arabic words (mutafail /optimist and mutashaim /pessimist) to describe someone...

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January 24, 2014

"Feilool" Was Always a Misnomer

Towards the end of July, General al-Sisi delivered a new 48-hour ultimatum for the Brotherhood to end their protests against the military coup. Even as he demanded that the...

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January 24, 2014

Visualizing Palestine in a two state solution: A state of Palestine or a Palestinian Bantustan?

After a long career as a journalist covering the apartheid in South Africa, Allister Sparks travelled Israel and Palestine, shocked by what he witnessed he was compelled to comment,...

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January 24, 2014

Why Saudi Arabia is taking a risk by backing the Egyptian coup

King Abdullah fears the Muslim Brotherhood, which challenges the kingdom’s claim to be the protector of Islam It took almost 60 years for the CIA to own up to...

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January 24, 2014

Palestinian refugees, and the day following the failure of the negotiations?

What has been disclosed regarding the peace talks so far does not give us hope, and this latest effort can already be judged to be an immense failure for...

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January 24, 2014

It is tragic that only reports of chemical attacks return international attention to Syria

In recent months, Britain has been going through a phase of Syria fatigue. Astonishing figures of two million Syrians inside the country in desperate need, or the fact that...

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January 24, 2014

Will Gaza have a date with ‘lean' years in the future?

A state of anxiety and confusion has taken over the residents of Gaza as the tunnels leading to the Egyptian border have been almost entirely closed off. Humanitarian crises...

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January 24, 2014

Abbas forfeits Palestinian right to land and memory

Diplomacy and submission have been propelled to prominence with Mahmoud Abbas’s recent concession to Israel. Allegedly speaking on behalf of Palestinians, Abbas declared that the Palestinian Authority would agree...

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January 24, 2014

The Jordan Valley in a State of Palestine

Palestinian families used to come to Al-Oja spring, in the Jordan Valley, to spend summer days bathing. The spring overflowed with water, turning the land into the “bread basket”...

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