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  • January 24, 2014

    Ultimately, the outcome in Syria is not just about Syria

    After more than two years, the conflict in Syria shows no sign of abating. If anything, the situation appears to be getting more intractable, as different foreign interests support...

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  • January 24, 2014

    On Hamas, Syria, Iran and Hezbollah

    The Syrian crisis encompasses a number of thorny and complicated issues, the details of which are intertwined and the courses of which branch out. This produces a strange state...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Why John Kerry is wasting everyone's time

    It’s back ladies and gentlemen. The latest instalment in the Israel-Palestine peace-process-charade is upon us once again. US Secretary of State John Kerry was back in the Middle East...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The conflict over Palestinian legitimacy

    The large controversy caused by Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi’s visit to Gaza as the chairman of the International Union for Muslim Scholars’ delegation is not a new phenomenon in the...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Sectarian drums of war lead us to communal suicide

    The worst thing that could happen to the Arab world is for the struggle for communal improvement and development to turn into a doctrinal conflict leading to fragmentation and...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Criticism of Israel's human rights record branded "anti-Semitism"

    For two days at the end of May, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the “Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism” to discuss the “global challenge” of such racism. In...

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  • January 24, 2014

    The Arab world and democracy

    The Arab Spring hit the Middle East to the core but has come unstuck in Syria. Nevertheless, the issue of democracy is now to the fore with demonstrations calling...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Israel prays for demonstrators in Taksim Square

    I have a number of comments to make on current events in Turkey; some regarding its appearance and others regarding its substance. In his daily column for the London-based...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Suspicious organisations in Egypt

    On Tuesday, the Cairo criminal court sentenced 43 defendants to 1 – 5 years in jail over a foreign funding case. The defendants were of American, German and Egyptian...

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  • January 24, 2014

    Was civil war predictable in Syria?

    Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal in January 2011 that his country is immune to the so-called “Arab Spring” that had already started in Tunisia and...

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