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Nuclear Irony is Lost on West

By Jamal Kanj It is ironic that Western nations seeking to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions are the same countries that sold nuclear technology to it in the first place. Iran worked with the US and […]

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Israel Hints It Created Flame Malware

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon has strongly hinted that Israel was involved in creating the computer virus Flame — a new Stuxnet-like espionage malware — to sabotage Iran’s nuclear plans. Speaking in an interview […]

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Leila Khaled – Book Review

Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Sarah Irving. Leila Khaled, Icon of Palestinian Liberation, Pluto Press, London 2012, 155 pp.) Western discourse about Palestine or Palestinians is peppered by stereotypes such as ‘terrorists’, ‘suicide bombers’, ‘irrational’ or […]

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Tareq Aziz: A Son’s Plea

By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘We don’t need spectators to witness our suffering and tell us they feel with us. We need help to put a stop to it.’ – Raja Shehadeh, 1951, ‘When The Birds Stopped […]

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‘We Egyptians,’ No More?

By Abdelrahman Rashdan Consider this a very opinionated piece and let me talk in the ‘I’ figure of speech because the presidential elections proved that not all Egyptians believe in what I believe in. ‘I’ […]

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Israel’s Abysmal Lack of Humanity

By Vacy Vlazna Every time Israel bans Palestinians from leaving Israel’s West Bank-Gaza Prison, and every time a well-meaning foreigner is refused entry to give humanitarian assistance to Palestinians, Israel is consolidating its reputation as […]

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Palestine’s Future in Safe Hands

By Ramzy Baroud The commemoration of the Nakba needs to be more than a ritualistic event; the remembrance should be integrated into a clear and comprehensive national project aimed at offsetting the harm wrought to […]