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  • January 24, 2014

    Deir Yassin remembered

    Today is the 65th anniversary of the massacre at Deir Yassin, a village near West Jerusalem. Early in the morning of 9 April 1948, around 120 members of the...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Counting the cost of war

    On October 10, 2002 I was driving the family during a short vacation at Yosemite National Park. Indifferent to the family’s holiday disposition, I scanned the radio for the...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Little change on Iran's nuclear merry-go-round

    For months – even years – Iran and the West have been engaged in circular talks about Tehran’s nuclear programme. Last week’s talks, in the capital of Kazakhstan, were...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Human rights: An American weapon

    The US has sought to impose its philosophy, lifestyle and culture on the world ever since it became a “superpower” politically, economically, militarily and technologically after World War Two....

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  • January 24, 2014

    Another Spring: The Middle East between history of revolts and future geopolitics

    Spring is a time for optimism, with the green shoots of summer pushing through after a long winter. Alas, things in the Middle East are now very different. With...

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  • January 24, 2014

    No more sacred cows

    Is a British newspaper report of violations against protesters in a military hospital in Cairo defamatory of the Egyptian Armed Forces, justifying hostile official statements? Does it play down...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Factional sedition and the challenges of Egyptian national security

    Egypt is falling victim to various incidents perceived to be the results of tension between Muslims and Christians which are sometimes targeting Christians and churches. Such incidents began in...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Salam Fayyad: the rise and fall... and rise again?

    Yasser Arafat’s attempt to support the Aqsa Intifada in order to rebel against the terms of the Oslo Accords backfired. Far from ending the Palestinian Authority’s role as a...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Dissolve the Palestinian Authority to be debt-free

    If Ismail Pasha brought foreign occupation onto Egypt after drowning it in debt, then what will Salam Fayyad and Mahmoud Abbas bring onto the Palestinians who are already under...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The revival of the old regime and the crisis of the revolution

    Surprising things happened in Egypt this week, reminding us that we were on the verge of forgetting about the revolution and opening our eyes to one or two things....

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