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Israel FM: Palestinians Who Kill Israeli Troops Aren’t Terrorists

Israel’s foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, has broken a taboo by declaring that Palestinians who kill Israeli soldiers are not terrorists.Her comments provoked fierce criticism in Israel and a Right-wing member

Egypt: Skepticism Over Govm’t. Release of Political Prisoners

Egyptian authorities announced the release of about 950 political detainees affiliated with Jamaa Islamya (The Islamic Group) who had renounced violence, in a step that human rights organizations and analysts

Common Ground: Definition of Terrorism

President George W. Bush has told us time and again that we do not negotiate with terrorists. Rarely do we consider the inverse: that it is the terrorists who refuse to

Mubarak’s Remarks… a Timely Surprise

Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak sparked a political storm when he cast doubt on the loyalty of the Shiaa community in Iraq in an interview with the Arabic channel Al Arabiya.

Egypt’s Engineers Demand Elections

During a conference held last week at the headquarters of the Press Syndicate engineers struggling to have the judicial sequestration imposed on their own syndicate in 1995 lifted called upon

Confer and contrast

Next Saturday’s one-day conference, organised by the Policies Committee of National Democratic Party (NDP) which is headed by Gamal Mubarak, will be the third in three months. Its aim is

The Mechanics of Democracy

Every time there’s a messy election somewhere, pundits drag Winston Churchill out of his grave to tell us, “Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms

Judges’ plight in Egypt

The judiciary and the executive are the two major pillars of the democratic system, and these are supplementary and complementary to each other. However, the strange thing in Egypt is

Opposition Parties Tripped Up

With a recent gunfight at an opposition party headquarters and a series of arrests of Muslim Brotherhood members, the state of the Egyptian opposition has seldom been more uncertain. "We’re

Howeidy: Not anxious about rising Muslim Brotherhood (MB)

"I am not anxious about the 88 MB members of Parliament who won in the last Parliamentary elections," Fahmy Hweidi said in an interview with (www.masrawy.com).