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EU Feels Force of Israeli Demolitions
By Daan Bauwens
BRUSSELS - All 27 foreign ministers of the European Union have strongly spoken out against Israeli demolitions in Area C of the West Bank. Since the beginning of 2011 not less than 60 EU-funded projects have been demolished while 110 others are currently at risk. Several analysts claim the Israeli authorities are specifically targeting EU-funded projects.
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Presidential Hopefuls Haunted by their Past
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - One is a conservative Islamist attempting to reinvent himself as a pragmatic liberal, the other is a secular statesman trying to distance himself from the authoritarian regime he once served. Both aspire to be Egypt’s first civilian president.
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Remembering Is Now 64 Years Old
By Pierre Klochendler
LIFTA, Jerusalem - "There is the beginning of my life. My father would call for prayer, ‘Allahu Akbar’," says 72-year old Yacoub Odeh, pointing to a collapsed house perched high on the hill. "The whole village would hear him." Odeh was then eight years old: "I’m the son of yesterday."
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Hunger Feeds Growing Protests in Prison
By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
JERUSALEM - With more than 1,500 Palestinian prisoners weeks into an open-ended hunger strike in protest against worsening conditions in Israeli jails, including two that have gone without food for 72 days, human rights groups say many lives are in danger and are calling for urgent intervention.
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Double U-Turn in ‘Theatre of the Absurd’
Analysis by Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - A double-barrelled ‘coup de théâtre’ – advanced, then postponed, elections within days – has disoriented a polity accustomed to grappling passively with their Prime Minister’s backstage intrigues. But the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ played outwardly by the "virtuoso of Israeli politics" conceals a deep need for stability.
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Palestinian Children Labour for Little in Israel
By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
AL-FASAYIL, Occupied West Bank - "It’s tiring," says 15-year-old Ibrahim*, deep lines running across his forehead. "But there is no alternative." Only a teenager, Ibrahim has been working full-time for three years already.
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Egypt-Israel Gas Issue Becoming Explosive
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - The two weeks since Egypt's abrupt cancellation of a Mubarak-era gas-export deal with Israel have seen an exchange of indirect threats and warnings between the two countries, culminating in an apparent Israeli military build-up on the border of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
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Ethnic Minority Youth Lead New Wave of Student Activism
By Gabriel Schivone
TUCSON, Arizona - In December 1985, The New York Times reported on what was believed to be the first anti-apartheid conference of U.S. high schools discussing divestment from corporations operating in South Africa.
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Mubarak Still Has His Billions
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - More than a year since president Hosni Mubarak was removed from power, the money he allegedly syphoned from Egypt during his 29-year rule remains beyond the reach of authorities attempting to recover it.
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U.S. Sets Israel in the Election Mood
By Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - If on Sep. 4, exit polls confirm what opinion polls currently predict – the reinstatement of a right-wing government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu – Israelis might still ask themselves, what was this general election about?
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Lebanese Groups Arming Syrian Unrest
By Zak Brophy
BEIRUT - The Lebanese army seized a ship last weekend carrying three containers filled with weapons reportedly intended for Syria’s rebel fighters. Although Lebanon has remained relatively stable throughout the sustained violence next door in Syria, this discovery is the most recent reminder that the country is far from immune to the unrest plaguing its neighbour.
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U.S.
Israeli Dissent May Create More Space for Iran Nuclear Deal
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - The threat of a military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities this year appears to have substantially subsided over the past several weeks as a result of several developments, including the biting criticisms voiced recently by former top national security figures of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister, Ehud Barak.
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Media Faces New Crackdown
By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
JERUSALEM - The Palestinian Authority’s arrest of journalists and activists critical of its policies are threatening freedom of expression and journalistic freedoms in the West Bank, according to local human rights groups.
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After six decades of unresolved hostilities and tens of thousands of civilian casualties and displaced families, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains as relevant as ever, as the greater Middle East pitches and heaves with revolutionary fervour. Talks seeking a two-state solution persist despite outstanding contentious issues - including Israeli concerns about security and state-sanctioned terrorism, the jurisdiction of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and the blockade on the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the controversial campaign for U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state continues and negotiations for reconciliation between the militant Hamas and the relatively moderate Fatah groups advance in Palestine. With correspondents throughout the region, from Tel Aviv to Ramallah, IPS reports on the latest developments and broader context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.