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January 24, 2014

Hamas political deputy claims West Bank will not put up with PA much longer

The deputy leader of Hamas’s political bureau, Dr Mousa Abu Marzouk, has claimed that the Palestinians living in the Occupied West Bank “will not be patient for long with...

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January 24, 2014

Why the Israelis prefer Omar Suleiman

Since it was first mooted about eight years ago that the son of Hosni Mubarak was being groomed to take his place as president of Egypt, the Director of...

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January 24, 2014

The tragedy of the two-state solution

It is fairly obvious that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is messing around with US President Barack Obama, when on the one hand he declares that he is interested...

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January 24, 2014

The economics of occupation in the West Bank

By Dr. Abdel Sattar QassemThe Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967 have suffered from an odd economic situation ever since, in stages summarised as follows: 1. The Israeli occupation authorities adopted...

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January 24, 2014

Christians are massacred and Netanyahu gets a reward

By Abdel Bari Atwan At a time when Israeli intelligence is accused of breaking Egyptian security through spy networks and the involvement of its agents in fuelling sectarian strife...

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January 24, 2014

Palestinians and another deadline... that is not sacred?

The Palestinian leadership has begun to speak about this coming September as the month of the three appointments or deadlines; for the end of the year of negotiations approved...

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January 24, 2014

The Palestinian Authority and the problem of reform under Israeli occupation

By Dr. Mohsen Mohammed SalehIs real reform of the Palestinian Authority possible or can reform only ever be a matter of “dancing to the Israeli occupation’s tune”? Can the...

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January 24, 2014

Does President Abbas have the power to dissolve the Palestinian Authority?

Just one week separates two recent statements by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, each of which contradicts the other. He hinted in his first statement to a “conditional acceptance” of...

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January 24, 2014

American exclusion of the European role... when will it end?

By Ali Badwan European complaints about their exclusion from the current Middle East peace process have come rather late. For many years the United States effectively marginalized major international...

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January 24, 2014

Lessons from British compassion

By Mahmoud al-Mubarak The British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, began his most recent visit to Israel with the great confidence and cold boldness that matches the history of his...

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