Over the last three years, even when Mohammed Morsi was president, Egyptian media outlets have carried out an unprecedented campaign against Hamas. Egyptian hostility toward the movement has grown since July 2014, when many Egyptians held Hamas responsible for the bloodshed in Gaza after Israeli military strikes against the Strip. The Egyptian media have linked Hamas to several […]
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When King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia died Jan. 23, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement that was conspicuously warm. One might have thought that considering the broad support the late king gave to the Egyptian state-led crackdown of the Brotherhood in Egypt, such a declaration would be negative at best. Within a few weeks, however, rumors
By Jim Lobe The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Bibi Netanyahu’s election, persistent violence through much of the Middle East and North Africa, and intensified efforts to forge a nuclear deal between the P5+1 and Iran topped the news here in Washington this week. But a much bigger story in terms of the future
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By Ramzy Baroud No matter how one attempts to wrangle with the rise of IS, the movement – as explainable historical circumstance – just doesn’t add up It is as if leaders of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) are getting tips on demonising Muslims from world leading Islamophobes and as if they are trying
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By Marwan Bishara Netanyahu is sure to translate the election results into a new mandate to further Israel’s colonial goals in Palestine. A Palestinian man reads a local newspaper, which features the Israeli election on its front page, in the southern Gaza Strip [REUTERS] This will be Benjamin Netanyahu’s fourth and Israel’s 34th government since its
By David Hearst Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrate at the Likud Party’s election headquarters There are five states of Israel, only two of which are going to the polls today. There is the Jewish state which is a democracy for its Jewish citizens only. These voters are unsentimental about their political leaders
By Chris Doyle Netanyahu opposes a Palestinian state. He will continue to build settlements. He could not have been clearer For a few brief happy days, the US President, European leaders and the whole Middle East peace process circus could dream of an alternate reality – an Israeli coalition that at least could talk of
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By Max Blumenthal Netanyahu has described a suicidal Jewish extremist as his personal hero. Will he follow in his path? March 22, 2015 “ICH” – “Alternet” – Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu propelled his Likud Party to victory over the centrist Zionist Union in national elections this week with a vehement rejection of
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By Alan Hart February 21, 2015 “ICH” – If perverted and violent Islamic fundamentalism (PVIF) in all of its manifestations is to be contained and defeated there’s one thing above all others that must happen: Western leaders, starting with President Barack Obama, must open their minds to the fact that consequences have causes and then
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By Walden Bello French Muslims pray in the streets of Marseille. (Reuters/Jean-Paul Pelissier) This article is a joint publication of TheNation.com and Foreign Policy In Focus. From Germany to Belgium to France, European countries have been on a manhunt for terrorists in the wake of January’s shootings at the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo and a Parisian kosher
