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  • January 25, 2014

    Keeping Gaza in the dark

    Efforts to keep the Gaza Strip in the dark, including its many hospitals, homes and street lights, is immoral and inhumane and constitutes collective punishment against the Palestinians. It...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The problem with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is not Sharia

    Western media simplistically cast the divide between revolutionaries and the Brotherhood in secular-Islamist terms Secularism is not my cause and sharia is not my fear but I am one...

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  • January 25, 2014

    The new WMD is Israel: a weapon of mass deception

    We are living in momentous times, with political changes sweeping across the Middle East and Western countries pushing democratic values as the panacea for all human ills. This is...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Homes destroyed, land stolen, lives shattered

    Criminal demolition in the OPTs Within the catalogue of criminality that is Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the destruction of Palestinian homes must rank as one...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Calling all friends of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa

    Palestinians have been putting their bodies and lives on the line against repeated Israeli aggression in the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Sometimes...

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  • January 25, 2014

    A united, democratic nation with equal rights for all

    AS A FORMER legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team, I spent more than six years working toward a “two-state” solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During that period, we...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Why did the voters say yes to the Muslim Brotherhood?

    The election results in Egypt which have favoured the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Freedom and Justice Party” are reflected across the Arab Spring countries; the Islamic movement has come of political...

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  • January 25, 2014

    There can be no election without Jerusalem and Hamas

    It looks as if Israel intends to put many obstacles in the way of the proposed Palestinian election, not least that it does not want polling stations in Jerusalem...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Religion and politics in Syria

    Many politicians and journalists are fearful of the future which can be facing the religious minorities in Syria following the revolution. Very often, these fears are expressed in the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Islamists and Palestine after the Arab Spring

    There is no doubt about Islamists’ commitment to the Palestinian cause, regardless of their ideological classifications, or whether they are in government or opposition. Nevertheless, a number of statements...

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