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A Palestinian boy waits for his family to receive food from a United Nations food distribution center in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 31, 2014. (AFP Photo/ Said Khatib)


Opinion: What Happens When the Fighting Stops?

Opinion: What Happens When the Fighting Stops?

As mourners comfort each other over the passing of their loved ones, they often wish that the loss will be “the last of sad times.” But they are not aware that, in doing this, they unintentionally overlook the fact that sadness at the calamity of death only ends when...
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epa04328719 A destroyed Al qsa martyer’s mosque after an Israeli air strikes in Gaza during a military operation in the east of Gaza City, 24 July 2014. At least 23 Palestinians were killed before dawn 24 July 2014 on the 17th day of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip amid reports that both sides […]


Opinion: From Gaza to Mosul, the Killing Continues

Opinion: From Gaza to Mosul, the Killing Continues

Nothing justifies the tanks of the Israeli “Defense” Force shelling thirty Palestinian families, none of whom had any chance of taking shelter or running away. This happened in the town of Khuzaha, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, just days after the streets of the...
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Palestinians remove debris as they search for bodies at a beach cafe hit the previous night by an Israeli air strike while people were watching the World Cup semi-final football match, on July 10, 2014 in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis. Eight people were killed and at least 15 wounded in the […]


Opinion: Gaza’s Fifth War, and Not its Last

Opinion: Gaza’s Fifth War, and Not its Last

Over the past few days people on the street, in the press, and on satellite TV and radio stations, have been saying that Israel has decided to launch its third war against the Gaza Strip, coming as it does from the two wars of November 2008 and December 2012. But...
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This photo taken on Tuesday, July 1, 2014, shows damaged homes due to clashes between fighters of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Iraqi security forces in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced this week that it has […]


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Refugees fleeing from Mosul head to the self-ruled northern Kurdish region in Erbil, Iraq, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, on Thursday, June 12, 2014. (AP Photo)


Opinion: Arabs and the Culture of Dialogue

Opinion: Arabs and the Culture of Dialogue

Arab countries have been going through a downward spiral on a number of levels over the past few years. In fact, the situation in the Arab world is going from bad to worse. Take the recent UN report on the numbers and conditions of refugees around the world released...