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Advertisements Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s end is now inevitable, and his appointment of Omar Suleiman as Egypt’s “first vice president” shows his desperate flailing and lack of realistic options. Suleiman is very close to Mubarak and has always supported his policies, domestically and internationally. He has been heading Egypt’s intelligenceContinue Reading

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Advertisements The following piece was originally published at The Palestine Note I wrote yesterday about a particular instance where I felt the Guardian (UK) had distorted and enflamed the content of one of the increasingly notorious Palestine Papers. Today, fellow blogger Bernard Avishai takes it a step further. Avishai callsContinue Reading

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Advertisements The PLO’s spokesman, Saeb Erekat, released a statement today in response to Al Jazeera’s publication of The Palestine Papers. The release is pasted below. The statement would seem, at least at this early stage, to reflect genuine panic on Erekat’s part. The standard denial of something having been “takenContinue Reading