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January 24, 2014

Why Saudi Arabia rejected its seat in the UN Security Council

Saudi Arabia has turned into a country of political surprises and shocks almost overnight. First its Foreign Minister, Prince Saud Al-Faisal, refused to give his speech at the UN...

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January 24, 2014

Hamas is going through a suffocating crisis but it's not weak and could still shuffle its cards

No one, neither inside or outside the occupied territories, would argue over whether or not the Islamic Resistance movement, Hamas, was living through a severe political and economic crisis....

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January 24, 2014

Iran-US reconciliation is part of a bigger picture

Change is happening in the Middle East, much more than is reflected in a fifteen minute phone call between Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and his US counterpart Barack Obama...

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January 24, 2014

Israel's latest stunt to keep settlement expansion away from critics

Whilst peace talks between Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are currently underway, internationally deemed illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank continue to mushroom....

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January 24, 2014

Indicators of geopolitical shifts in the Middle East

The impact of Turkish and Iranian rapprochement will cause the Gulf States to face pressure from Iran and complicate the situation in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. These pressures and...

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January 24, 2014

Israel prepares to renew cooperation with the UNHRC

In March last year Israel became the first country ever to sever ties with the UN Human Rights Council. The decision came after the body decided to investigate Jewish...

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January 24, 2014

In Bab al-Hawa Hospital, doctors are dealing with injuries they only read about

Today, they said, was a “quiet day”. There was a child with shrapnel wedged in her neck, a man in the ICU with amputated limbs and an FSA fighter...

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January 24, 2014

The GCC and Israel: an unlikely alliance?

“Ahmadinejad (Iran’s previous President) was a wolf in wolf’s clothing. Rouhani (Iran’s new President) is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a wolf who thinks he can pull the wool...

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January 24, 2014

Is Israel's strategic position improving in the Arab world?

Nearly a year ago, I wrote a column discussing how many people considered Israel to be the biggest loser in the events of the Arab Spring. Have things now...

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January 24, 2014

What are the options for the Palestinian Authority?

Twenty years after the Oslo Accords were signed, it can be concluded that they were, quite simply, ‘Israeli’. From the very beginning, the consequences of Oslo have been radically...

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