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  • January 23, 2014

    The Red-Dead Seas canal

    The agreement for the two seas Canal connecting the Red and Dead Sea was summed up best by Israeli water minister Silvan Shalom who jubilantly described it following the...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Free Egyptians declare that they are Brotherhood members

    Paraphrasing the famous words of nationalist leader Mustafa Kamil, free and honourable Egyptians have declared, “If I wasn’t a Brotherhood member, I would wish to be a Brotherhood member.”...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Ashton's holiday to Luxor endorses military regime

    Last week European Union foreign affairs policy chief Catherine Ashton and her family were photographed on their Christmas holidays in Luxor visiting the Valley of the Kings and sailing...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Idan Raichel backs alleged IDF torturer "Captain George"

    Internationally-renowned Israeli musician Idan Raichel has come out in defence of a former IDF interrogator accused of torture. Doron Zahavi, referred to as “Captain George” until a gag order...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Displacing decades of colonial incitement

    Eliminating chronology and context from the recent Palestinian resistance against Israel’s state terror, its ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, urged UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to condemn...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Diplomacy takes precedence over violations of international law

    A recent report in the Times of Israel illustrates the emphasis which Israeli officials place upon diplomatic rhetoric, instead of expounding upon the prevailing expansionism associated with the Zionist...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Developing indifference to torture

    Routine torture in Israeli prisons occasionally makes the news as a reminder of its existence combined with the perpetrators’ impunity. The recent outrage over detained Palestinian children exposed to...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Dutch pension giant boycotts Israeli banks, G4S faces OECD investigation

    Dutch pension fund giant PGGM has withdrawn all its investments from Israel’s five largest banks because of their complicity in West Bank settlements. The report in Israeli newspaper Haaretz...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Maintaining illusions of equality during negotiations

    Echoing previous statements regarding Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to recognise the Palestinian right of return, Israeli government officials have declared their refusal of “a symbolic acceptance of the so-called right...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Israel moves forward with plans to export natural gas to neighbouring countries

    Israel has confirmed plans to start working on a pipeline to export natural gas to Jordan via the Dead Sea, informed Israeli sources told Bloomberg earlier this week. Work...

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