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  • January 25, 2014

    Confined cruelty: Israeli treatment of Palestinian minors

    The innocence of childhood is precious, to be cared for gently and nurtured, allowing the child, whose future we are building, to develop happily and safely in an atmosphere...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Talking points and tensions

    Three representatives of Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party spoke in the Palace of Westminster recently where they were able to explain their plans and political vision. Invited by the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Arab revolutions through Israeli eyes

    Israeli researchers have been preoccupied from the very first days of the Arab revolutions to analyse the possible consequences for Israel; the Israeli establishment has not disguised its fear...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Islamists and governance: challenges and opportunities

    Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century, Islam has been largely absent from political activity in the Muslim world. The decline of the Ottomans...

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  • January 25, 2014

    When Beilin calls on Abbas to hand over the PA to Netanyahu, we should listen

    Yossi Beilin is a smart man – he told us so himself – and because of that, he is quite certain that the Netanyahu government will not accept the four...

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  • January 25, 2014

    New victory for Sheikh Raed Salah, the Sentinel of Al-Aqsa

    Sheikh Raed Salah’s legal victory against the British government’s decision to deport him from the UK represents one more example of the battles he has been fighting for years...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Simon Wiesenthal Centre's respect for dead Gentiles appears to be limited

    It is interesting to note that a recent robust defence of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s planned “Museum of Tolerance” in Jerusalem uses an attack on the credibility of Sheikh...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Solitary confinement and administrative detention

    Administrative detention provides a vehicle for the arrest of Palestinians where there is no genuine reason for them to be taken into custody, even under Israel’s draconian military occupation....

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  • January 25, 2014

    Maintaining Israel's demographic majority, but at what cost?

    In America, the Jewish community’s Anti-Defamation League (ADL) promotes racial integration, equality and multiculturalism within American society. The ADL and other Jewish organisations work closely at local levels with...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Libya and the ICC: in the pursuit of justice?

    The ongoing post-conflict reconstruction process in Libya is reigniting a crucial debate among transitional justice advocates about the role that the International Criminal Court (ICC) can play in delivering...

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