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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel has lost touch with reality

    We will probably never really know if, as Israel’s Prime Minister claimed, Iran and Syria orchestrated the Nakba demonstrations which led to the deaths of at least 12 Palestinians...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Selective Justice

    At a press conference held on 18 May in The Hague, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, announced that he was seeking warrants, in accordance with...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Welcome Hamas' conciliation with Fatah

    The birth of the Cairo reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas was slow and painful. But Palestinians welcomed its arrival. The tragic division which occurred in our national movement...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The vision of Jordan's National Front for Reform

    Former Jordanian Prime Minister Ahmad Obaidat has unveiled the vision of the new National Front for Reform in a press conference in Amman. Mr. Obaidat set out the plans...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel's PM is out to block peace in the Middle East, again

    Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has been very active in the last week in deploring the unity deal between Palestine’s two main parties, Hamas and Fatah. Netanyahu has even...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The Syrian regime must go...now

    The gruesome images and horrifying accounts that keep coming from Syria defy linguistic description. They go beyond the pale of human decency. A few weeks ago, Hamza al Khatib,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Why June 5 matters

    I gasped as the first bullet struck a young man standing a few paces ahead of me. Watching him crumple to the ground, I struggled for breath and fought...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The return of Palestinian Egypt

    Egypt’s decision to reopen the Rafah border crossing with Gaza was anticipated; nevertheless its timing had significant political import. It was not just a positive undertaking on the border,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    When the people become the problem

    I have two observations on the current campaign against the result of the constitutional referendum led by loud voices among the political class; one on its form and the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israelis prepare to emigrate and Palestinians to Return?

    The number of Israelis thinking of leaving Palestine is climbing rapidly according to researchers, while many more, with actual millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing, prepare to exercise...

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