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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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August 8, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Yasser Arafat International Airport
To those unfamiliar with the term, "Yasser Arafat International Airport" must seem like the punch line to some joke about international terrorism. Yet it existed in Gaza, briefly, and President Clin…
November 11, 2013
Israel
Yasser Arafat: Dead Again
With all the important news going on in the Middle East this past week, Al Jazeera took time out to remind its audience that Yasser Arafat is still dead. It has been nine years since the Palestinian …
August 25, 2015
Middle East and North Africa
Did Mahmoud Abbas Just Resign?
There’s a bit of confusion about the recent "resignation" of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. What actually happened? Abbas wears three hats, as his predecessor and mentor Yasser Arafat did: head o…
October 28, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Liberty and the Palestinian Authority
Palestinian Authority officials have given thousands of speeches over the years about removing the Israeli occupation, freeing Palestinians, self-government, and the like. But today --as in the days…
September 19, 2013
United States
This Week: Syria, Iran, and Israeli-Palestinian Diplomacy; Violence in Egypt
Syria. Diplomats in New York appeared stymied in their efforts to craft a new United Nations Security resolution calling for the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal. The Security Council bega…
