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By Editorial - Feb 02,2016
France recently said that its patience with Israel, which continues to frustrate through its inaction on peace with the Palestinians, was running out and that if its last-ditch effort to implement the two-state solution fails, it will have no choice but to recognise a Palestinian
By Editorial - Feb 01,2016
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visits to Italy and France a week ago can be viewed as a big success when measured by the multibillion-dollar business deals he reached with these two European countries.Rouhani signed trade deals worth about $18 billion with Rome, his first sto
By Editorial - Jan 31,2016
According to Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, His Majesty King Abdullah will be telling the February 4 refugee donors’ conference that “the Syrian crisis is no longer a refugee concern only, but a security burden, an issue of sleeper cells, illicit drug trafficking, terror and rad
By Editorial - Jan 30,2016
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon used strong words against Israel’s latest plan to build yet 153 more housing units in the West Bank during a recent UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East.The UN head criticised Israel’s settlement activities, calling them “provocative act
By Editorial - Jan 28,2016
According to the Washington-based human rights organisation Freedom House, freedom and respect for human rights are slipping in most countries.In its just-released annual report, the organisation said that more than one third of the world’s population, 2.6 billion, that is, live
By Editorial - Jan 27,2016
In a recent statement to Israel Radio and Army Radio, the American ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, said that the current state of Israeli-Palestinian relations is characterised by a set of circumstances “that are leading to a bi-national state”.Israel’s continued expansion of
By Editorial - Jan 26,2016
During an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, on the sidelines of the Davos World Economic Forum, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked about the Syrian conflict and how he sees it end.There is no military solution to the Syrian civil war, Netanyahu stated, but when a
By Editorial - Jan 25,2016
It is not hard to figure out what Moscow is trying to tell the world and the opposition groups in Syria after seeing the air strikes it conducted on the village of Khasham, in the Deir Ezzor region, on the very eve of the projected peace talks between the opposition and Damascus.
By Editorial - Jan 24,2016
His Majesty King Abdullah attended the ceremony to change and raise the flag of the Great Arab Revolt in Aqaba, on Saturday, an event that marks the revolt’s centenary.Led by the Sharif Hussein Bin Ali against the Ottoman rule, the successful revolt was soon confronted by the des
By Editorial - Jan 23,2016
The much-anticipated peace talks on Syria will presumably be held next week in Geneva, but are now projected to be indirect negotiations between Damascus and the opposition, rather than face-to-face discussions.Much hope was pinned on these much delayed talks, but the fact that t

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