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January 24, 2014

The return to negotiations fractures Palestine even further

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Eraket and his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni have sat down for “talks to begin talks”, a process which US State of Secretary John Kerry has spent...

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January 24, 2014

A critique of eternal negotiations at any cost

Discussing the points of view that support the resumption of “eternal and at any cost” negotiations we can see that some have called publically on the top decision-maker to...

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January 24, 2014

Is Palestine's first planned city part of the resistance or a whitewash of the occupation?

From the disorder of a construction site in the occupied West Bank, a new vision of Palestine is rising. Not far from Ramallah, workers in hard hats are busy...

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January 24, 2014

A raid on Sinai

The bad news is that an Israeli drone strike killed five Egyptians in Sinai last week; they were, it is alleged, “jihadists” who intended to launch a rocket against...

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January 24, 2014

What peace are they talking about?

The construction of 1,200 housing units in the occupied West Bank does not threaten the peace process, although Israel finds it difficult to accept the “unfair accusations” that activities...

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January 24, 2014

Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations

The late Palestinian writer, Emile Habibi has coined the Arabic word “AlMutashail” out of the two halves of the Arabic words (mutafail /optimist and mutashaim /pessimist) to describe someone...

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January 24, 2014

"Feilool" Was Always a Misnomer

Towards the end of July, General al-Sisi delivered a new 48-hour ultimatum for the Brotherhood to end their protests against the military coup. Even as he demanded that the...

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January 24, 2014

Visualizing Palestine in a two state solution: A state of Palestine or a Palestinian Bantustan?

After a long career as a journalist covering the apartheid in South Africa, Allister Sparks travelled Israel and Palestine, shocked by what he witnessed he was compelled to comment,...

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January 24, 2014

Why Saudi Arabia is taking a risk by backing the Egyptian coup

King Abdullah fears the Muslim Brotherhood, which challenges the kingdom’s claim to be the protector of Islam It took almost 60 years for the CIA to own up to...

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January 24, 2014

Palestinian refugees, and the day following the failure of the negotiations?

What has been disclosed regarding the peace talks so far does not give us hope, and this latest effort can already be judged to be an immense failure for...

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