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Turning the page
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The landmark reconciliation agreement unveiled in Cairo between the Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas should be a cause for celebration, albeit tempered by some skepticism.
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Change of strategy
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| Daily Star Editorial | May 04, 2011 01:40 AM |
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The euphoria over the killing of Osama bin Laden is winding to a close. Many commentators in the United States are talking about achieving “closure” over the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Osama is dead. Good, but so what?
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| Michael Young | May 05, 2011 03:07 AM |
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Who truly regrets the assassination of Osama bin Laden? There are those of us who never saw the Al-Qaeda founder as an avatar of Arab frustration and humiliation.
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Do a deal on Palestine this time around, or don’t try
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| David Ignatius | May 05, 2011 03:07 AM |
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As Washington buzzes about yet another restart for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, I have been reading a book that summarizes the past 44 years of botched peacemaking, blown opportunities and, sometimes, sheer folly.
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The future of Al-Nahda in Tunisia
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| By Rajaa Basly | April 29, 2011 01:29 AM (Last Updated: 29/04/2011 01:29 AM) |
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Among the many results of the “Tunisian Revolution for Dignity and Freedom,” as Tunisians have taken to calling it, has been the legalization of previously banned political parties.
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We are at a watershed moment in the greenhouse-gas emissions debate
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| By Roland Kupers | April 29, 2011 01:29 AM (Last Updated: 29/04/2011 01:29 AM) |
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Japan’s nuclear crisis, and the recent 25th anniversary of the nuclear meltdown of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, have incited heated new discussions about the desirability of nuclear power.
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The return of the French has nothing to do with colonialism
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| By Michel Rocard | April 28, 2011 01:51 AM (Last Updated: 28/04/2011 01:51 AM) |
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How difficult is it to erase one’s past as a colonial power? Tunisia has been independent for 55 years, and Ivory Coast for 51 years, yet France is once more playing a decisive role in these countries.
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Law is Lebanon’s path to a new spring
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| By David M. Beatty | April 27, 2011 01:28 AM (Last Updated: 27/04/2011 01:28 AM) |
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Springtime is always pleasant in the Arab world. This year could be one of the best ever.
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Violent Afghan protests are a warning to Pakistan
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| By Qazi Abdul Qadeer Khamosh | April 27, 2011 01:28 AM (Last Updated: 27/04/2011 01:28 AM) |
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As I followed the bloody demonstrations in Afghanistan these past few weeks on the news, I wondered if dialogue could help people realize the consequences of reacting violently to incendiary or divisive news.
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Turkish journalists are behind bars, and that’s intolerable
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| By Alison Bethel McKenzie | April 27, 2011 01:28 AM (Last Updated: 27/04/2011 01:28 AM) |
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In a study released in early April, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, reported that 57 journalists are currently in prison in Turkey, mostly on the basis of the country’s anti-terrorism laws.
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The U.S. is disengaged, but none can fill the gap
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| By Dominique Moisi | April 26, 2011 12:44 AM (Last Updated: 26/04/2011 12:44 AM) |
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From Washington, the enthusiasm of the French for intervention in Libya is seen with a mixture of relief and puzzlement.
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Bashar Assad will find no long-term solution to Syrian unrest
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| By Nizar Abdel-Kader | April 26, 2011 12:44 AM (Last Updated: 26/04/2011 12:44 AM) |
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As millions of Tunisians, Egyptians, Yemenis and Libyans protested against their regime and called for reform and change, many analysts speculated that Syria was unlikely to be next.
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Even help from abroad may not be enough to save Syria’s regime
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| By Karim Emile Bitar | April 22, 2011 01:30 AM (Last Updated: 22/04/2011 01:30 AM) |
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The refreshing winds blowing from the Atlantic to the Gulf are dealing a serious and hopefully fatal blow to deeply ingrained Western misconceptions about the Middle East.
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Goldstone’s reversal is either unwarranted or premature
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| By Aryeh Neier | April 22, 2011 01:30 AM (Last Updated: 22/04/2011 01:30 AM) |
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Judge Richard Goldstone was condemned by many apologists for Israel’s human rights record for his conclusion that Israel intentionally targeted Palestinian civilians as a matter of policy during the 2008-2009 Gaza war.
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Libya confirmed the limitations of BRIC
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| By Harsh V. Pant | April 22, 2011 01:30 AM (Last Updated: 22/04/2011 01:30 AM) |
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It was supposed to be a new world order, the emerging powers making their presence felt even as the old and tired West relieved itself of the responsibility to maintain global order.
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Parochial aims mar Palestinian elections
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| By Basem Ezbidi | April 21, 2011 01:15 AM (Last Updated: 21/04/2011 02:05 AM) |
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Rumors of Fatah-Hamas reconciliation talks – whether in Cairo, Gaza or Istanbul – are once again rife.
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In the global economy, a good cause is worth some inefficiency
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| By Michael Spence | April 21, 2011 01:12 AM (Last Updated: 21/04/2011 02:05 AM) |
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The global economy is at a crossroads as the major emerging markets (and developing countries more broadly) become systemically important, both for macroeconomic and financial stability and in their impact on other economies, including the advanced countries.
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After Bhatti’s killing, his vision for Pakistan must live on
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| By Qurat ul ain Siddiqui | April 20, 2011 12:00 AM (Last Updated: 20/04/2011 12:57 AM) |
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Last month, Pakistan’s Minister for Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, was assassinated outside his Islamabad home. The so-called Tehrik-i-Taliban (Student Movement) of Punjab claimed responsibility for the attack in pamphlets discovered at the scene of the shooting.
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