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Month: January 2017

Hizbullah and the Politics of Remembrance by Bashir Saade

5 years ago
Cambridge University Press has recently published a book entitled "Hizbullah and the Politics of Remembrance: Writing the Lebanese Nation" by Bashir Saade. Description "Born out of the Israeli occupation of the South of Lebanon, the political armed group Hizbullah is a powerful player within both Lebanon and the wider Middle East. Understanding how Hizbullah has, […]
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Palestine in the Age of Trump

5 years ago
By Rashid Khalidi* for The New Yorker -- With the advent in Washington of an Administration with radical new priorities regarding Israel, and a disdain for Palestinian rights, Palestine is facing a daunting reality. In recent years, ascendant political currents in America and Israel had already begun to merge. We have now reached the point […]
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An inauguration—into what?

5 years ago
by Graham E. Fuller -- With the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, it’s hard to know where first to focus attention. Rage and righteous indignation on all sides are mounting. There is more than enough blame to go around for how the US got itself into this situation. […]
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Democrats’ sympathy for Israel has crashed nearly 25 percent in last nine months — Pew

5 years ago
By Philip Weiss -- Liberal Democrats sympathize with Palestinians over Israelis by 38-26 per new Pew survey. A new Pew Research Center poll from January 4-9 of American views on foreign policy shows that Democratic Party sympathies for Israel are crashing, down ten points in the last 9 months, from 43 percent to 33 percent. That’s a […]
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At Paris Meeting, Major Powers to Warn Trump Over Middle East Peace

5 years ago
By John Irish and Lesley Wroughton, Reuters - Some 70 countries on Sunday reaffirmed that only a two-state solution could resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and warned they would not recognize any unilateral steps by either side that could prejudge negotiations. The final communique of a one-day international Middle East peace conference in Paris shied away […]
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Obama Belatedly Says No to Israel

5 years ago
If President Obama had confronted Israel over its illegal settlements earlier, he might have really achieved something, but his U.N. abstention as he heads out the door is better than nothing, observes Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn for Consortium -- For the first time in his eight-year presidency, Barack Obama said no to Israel. When […]
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Hamas and Dahlan Coordinate Positions ahead of PLC Conference

5 years ago
By Jasmin Rasheed -- Palestinian reliable sources revealed that Mousa Abu Marzook, member of the Hamas Political Bureau, met the representatives of Mohammad Dahlan to discuss future moves against Abu Mazen. According to these sources, a week ago, Abu Marzook met in Cairo two close associates of Mohammad Dahlan - Samir Masharawi and the PLC […]
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards position for power

5 years ago
By Babak Dehghanpisheh for Reuters | BEIRUT -- Iran's Revolutionary Guards look set to entrench their power and shift the country to more hardline, isolationist policies for years to come following the death of influential powerbroker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Former president Rafsanjani long had a contentious relationship with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), […]
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