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January 24, 2014

The Oslo swamp after two decades

The ill-fated Oslo Accords, signed 20 years ago, have only made Israel more arrogant and open about its disregard of the Palestinians’ national rights. Illegal settlements and their infrastructure...

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January 24, 2014

Syria: genocide by international consensus

Part 2: The destruction of a people On Monday, the residents of Kafr Zeita, a town in north central Syria, were retrieving the corpses of their loved ones from...

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January 24, 2014

No Chemicals my Lad, we said No Chemicals!!

The Revolution Leadership Council in Damascus (RLCD) For a long time, I thought commentary about the international community’s ‘inaction’ and ‘impotence’ and the rest of it has become clichés...

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January 24, 2014

From dismantling chemical weapons to dismantling Syria

After 30 months of violence, Syria appears to have collapsed and is almost lifeless. More than two-thirds of the population are in danger and much of the infrastructure has...

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January 24, 2014

Should the Islamists be punished for being the most organised?

In 2006, the US, Israel, Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority (PA), dominated by the secular Fatah movement, decided to end the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation. They...

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January 24, 2014

Israel denies Christian Peacemaker Teams entry to Palestine

Jonathan Brenneman packed for his second attempt at crossing the Jordan-West Bank border with a jacket, fully charged iPod, letters of official invitation and 500-page collection of Flannery O’Connor...

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January 24, 2014

The Syrian opposition coalition is dying and America has sold the Arabs to Iran

The phone call between President Barack Obama and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani ended more than 30 years of no official communication between leaders of the two states. It...

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January 24, 2014

Medical professionals in Syria demand neutrality for hospitals, ambulances and patients

More than 50 doctors and health professionals have demanded that the Syrian government and all armed groups in the country respect the neutrality of hospitals, ambulances and patients, and...

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January 24, 2014

The fight to defend Al-Aqsa

Thirteen years ago former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s visit to the compound of the third holiest site in Islam, Al-Aqsa Mosque, sparked the Second Intifada. The intifada, which raged...

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January 24, 2014

Iranian bankers look to Rouhani reforms to save industry

Bankers in Iran are hoping that new President Hasan Rouhani will follow through on hints that reform is coming to the industry, which is saddled with dangerous levels of...

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