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  • January 25, 2014

    Another (made for Israel) global disaster derailed

    LAST August I predicted that as the US election drew closer, and as the President’s re-election became certain, a credible scenario would be for Israel to strike Iran, pre-empting...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Morsi in charge, at home and abroad

    The past few weeks have witnessed a convergence of several important issues facing post-uprising Egypt: new Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s opportunism in his attempt to reform the judiciary (as...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Revisiting the Egypt-Israel peace treaty

    Thirty years after it was signed, the Egypt-Israel peace treaty is the focus of attention in strategic debate in Washington, Tel Aviv and Cairo. The renewed interest arises from...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Israel squirms despite "show trial" claim

    ISRAEL squirms and wriggles like a worm on a fishhook over the Turkish trial into the deaths of nine unarmed humanitarian aid volunteers on board a ship bound for...

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  • January 25, 2014

    New rules of military engagement between Hamas and Israel

    Contrary to what Israel might have expected, Hamas’s reaction to the latest Israeli escalation in Gaza didn’t follow the normal pattern. Thus, Israeli calculations have been confused. Normally, Hamas...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Against Morsi, not Israel

    Within the past two weeks, Cairo has received two messages of special significance. The first was from Washington and the other was from Tel Aviv. During his election campaign,...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Why is the PA reluctant to investigate Arafat's death?

    Out of nowhere, a sister of the late President Yasser Arafat has insisted that no exhumation of his remains should take place. We have never heard of this honourable...

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  • January 25, 2014

    America is a partner in Israel's wars

    On 15 November, 1988, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) National Council, a body representing all Palestinians, declared an independent Palestinian state. The gesture did not change life for Palestinians...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Hamas and the Arab Spring: positions and repercussions

    The revolutions in a number of Arab countries and their effects on a number of strategic issues, at the forefront of which is the Palestinian case, are at the...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Gaza in Ramallah and Nazareth

    The criminal Israeli offensive on Gaza is taking place in the midst of the Israeli general election campaign. There should be no doubt that it is connected to the...

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