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December 8, 2014

Netanyahu: Moderate Arab governments do not see Israel as an enemy

After holding the Palestinians responsible for the failure of negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Arab countries no longer see Israel as an enemy. Netanyahu told the...

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December 8, 2014

Vienna film festival criticised for ignoring Palestinian suffering

The Jewish organisation Women in Black criticised the 8th International Human Rights Film Festival that was held in the Austrian capital Vienna for not displaying films about the suffering...

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December 8, 2014

Lieberman thwarts Netanyahu's plan to avoid early elections

The right-wing Israeli party Yisrael Beiteinu, led by the Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, yesterday rejected the formation of an alternative government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid entering...

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December 8, 2014

Britain's new base in Bahrain

On Saturday December 7, the British Government announced that it would re-open its first naval base in the Gulf since it withdrew from the region in 1971. The base...

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December 8, 2014

Organisations call on rich countries to resettle more Syrian Refugees

A coalition of 36 international organisations is calling on rich countries to resettle tens of thousands of Syrian refugees inside their borders. The call comes before a United Nations...

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December 8, 2014

Abbas calls for a transparent and open Palestinian State

If transparency and accountability prevailed in Palestine, the Palestinians will have the respectable state they deserve, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday. Speaking during a ceremony held in...

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December 8, 2014

Ennahda postpones naming presidential candidate it backs

Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement yesterday decided to postpone naming the presidential candidate it will support in the second round of the presidential elections until Saturday. The movement’s head of the...

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December 8, 2014

When will Arab states step up and face ISIS?

Saudi Arabia, with nearly $60 billion in defence spending each year, is the world’s fourth largest military spender after the United States, China and Russia. In the Middle East,...

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December 8, 2014

Ethnic cleansing manifesto...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and head of Yisrael Beitenu party published on November 28 a new manifesto outlining the party’s outlook for Israel. The updated platform entitled “Swimming...

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December 8, 2014

37 burnt bodies in Rabaa in June 2013

Secretary-General of the June 30 fact finding committee Judge Omar Marwan said his committee has documented the presence of 37 burnt bodies; seven of them were completely burnt at...

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