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A Caabu Briefing Paper 1. Introduction 1.1 The Oslo Accords which were intended to lead to peace between Israelis and Palestinians were signed as long ago as 1993. Yet...
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May 13, 2014
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Sawsan Ramahi
There has been much talk over the past ten years about the "new Middle East" which America has called for. This US project is based around four main areas:...
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May 13, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
The Israeli government sets a state budget which is allocated to all sectors of society. Claims of economic discrimination are rife given the disparity in living conditions between Palestinian...
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May 13, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
Following the leak of some 1600 documents a selection known as the Palestine Papers were released by Al Jazeera and the Guardian newspaper; they highlight previously unknown details relating...
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May 11, 2014
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Sawsan Ramahi
Briefing Paper – October 2010By Sawsan Ramahi Hebron is one of the oldest cities in Palestine, perhaps one of the oldest in the world, and is located in the...
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Briefing Paper – September 2010 A step towards another historic handshake, perhaps, but not necessarily a solution. Preamble The latest round of Middle East "peace talks" is under way....
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May 11, 2014
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Sawsan Ramahi
Briefing Paper – June 2010By Sawsan Ramahi Racism was, and still is, an inherent feature of Zionism and the state established on its back, Israel. From its declaration of...
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Briefing Paper – June 2010 An overview of the Christian presence in Palestine The estimated number of Palestinian Christians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem is...
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) The last decade has seen some major welcome developments by the international community to promote universal justice and human rights. This is manifest, for...
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Briefing Paper – June 2010 "Israel has enjoyed strong economic growth over the last decade, but the benefits of this are being distributed unevenly. Poverty rates are higher than in...
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Briefing Paper – April 2010 Last month, Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, outlined a new foreign policy framework for a future Conservative government to an audience at RUSI –...
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May 11, 2014
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Sawsan Ramahi
Briefing Paper – Mar 2010 By Sawsan Ramahi Background Land Day is considered to be a milestone in the history of the Palestinian struggle. It is the day when...
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Palestinians in Israel's 'democracy': The Judaization of the Galilee Briefing Paper – Mar 2010 By Ben White Summary Points The 'Judaization of the Galilee' refers to Israeli...
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May 11, 2014
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Sawsan Ramahi
Briefing Paper – Mar 2010By Sawsan Ramahi World Water Day is upon us. Initiated by the United Nations in 1992 during its Conference on Environment and Development, 22 March...
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Briefing Paper – Feb 2010 Key Points Israel's continued threats and belligerence toward its neighbouring states could plunge the region into all-out war. Given the current regional dynamics, it...
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Briefing Paper – Mar 2010The March/April 2010 addition of Foreign Affairs1 features an article entitled 'Armistice Now' written by the Lafer International Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East...
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IntroductionPalestinian civil society in the Occupied West Bank today faces one of its most daunting challenges in decades. Saddled with a military occupation Palestinians must also contend with an...
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May 11, 2014
Silvia Nicolaou-Garcia
Briefing Paper – Dec 2009 After last month's astonishing speculation about a breakthrough in the prisoner exchange negotiations between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza and Israel, it...
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May 11, 2014
Middle East Monitor
The people of Gaza have been suffering for more than two years now under an illegal siege put in place by Israel. This siege has been aided and abetted...
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May 11, 2014
Middle East Monitor
FACT SHEET According to hundreds of Palestinian, Arab, Israeli, and Western sources, both written and oral, Zionist forces committed dozens of massacres against Palestinians during what was called the...
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May 11, 2014
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Maha Salah
FACT SHEET Although the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel have the right to vote in the Israeli elections, many have chosen not to, due to the fact that Israeli...
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May 11, 2014
Middle East Monitor
– Israel's anti-African protests, which have turned into full-fledged race-riots, started about a year ago. – In January 2011, the daughters of Nigerian migrant workers were attacked by a...
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May 11, 2014
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Sawsan Ramahi
FACT SHEET The recent escalation of Israeli attacks on Muslim and Christian religious sites in Palestine, including Jerusalem, other cities in the occupied West Bank and the area occupied...
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FACT SHEET 1.1 – The issue of Palestinian prisoners is one of the worst consequences of the Israeli occupation. Since 1967, over 700,000 Palestinians, 20% of the population of...
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FACT SHEET Sheikh Raed Salah came to Britain at the invitation of the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) last June for a 10 day speaking tour. He was invited to...
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May 11, 2014
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Sawsan Ramahi
Human beings are endowed with essential basic rights. These include the right to freedom, equality and prosperous natural living conditions. As such, every individual has a public duty to...
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FACT SHEET Over the past two decades, Palestinians have sat around the "negotiating table" on numerous occasions with successive Israeli governments and with a stated view of achieving a...
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May 11, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
FACT SHEET As candidates prepared for elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in 2006, the Israeli authorities began a campaign of detention and imprisonment to thwart the growing...
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May 11, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
The imprisonment of Palestinian children is a common feature of Israel's occupation of the West Bank. Defence for Children International (DCI) estimates that since 2000 around 7,500 Palestinian children...
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Her upbringing and education Ahlam al-Tamimi was born on 20/10/1980 in the Jordanian city of al-Zarqa to a Palestinian family with roots in the Palestinian village of al-Nabi Saleh...
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May 11, 2014
Middle East Monitor
Freedom for Samir Al-Qantar in a 2008 exchange deal between Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel was one of the last of such deals between Israel and an Arab entity prior...
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May 11, 2014
Middle East Monitor
Palestinian Parliament members Detained at the Red Cross in Jerusalem On July 1st 2010 four democratically elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council sought refuge in the compound of...