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Trouble in Algeria
The president and the policeA mysterious murder exposes a rift within the country’s ruling circle
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Palestinian politics and the mosques
Can the Islamist tide be turned?The West Bank’s secular rulers want to stop preachers backing the Islamists
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Israel's controversial intelligence service
Does Mossad really make Israel safer?In the wake of the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai, presumably by Mossad, the agency’s effectiveness, attitude and leadership are under scrutiny
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Israeli spies in Lebanon
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Yemen's elusive peace deal
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Iraq, Iran and the politics of oil
Crude diplomacyIraq has ambitious plans for its oil industry. That could have important implications for Iran and the rest of the region
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Iran and Israel in Africa
A search for allies in a hostile worldIran’s proclaimed ambitions in Africa are particularly worrying for Israel, which once had a lot of friends on the continent and wants to keep the few that remain
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Iran
Barricades and the bombIran’s demonstrators need support as much as its nuclear engineers need restraining
- Joe Biden criticises Israel's plans to build 1,600 new houses in east Jerusalem. Mr Biden is meeting Palestinian leaders today as part of the Obama administration's effort to restart the peace process.
- Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Cairo's 1,000-year-old Islamic university and one of Sunni Islam's most important clerics, has died while visiting Saudi Arabia.
- On a trip to Kabul, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused America of playing a "double game" in Afghanistan.
- A court case brought by the family of Rachel Corrie, an American protester killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003, has begun in Haifa.
- Marc Lynch argues that Iraq's elections went surprisingly well. The rest of the Middle East is less sure.
- Barbara Slavin thinks George Mitchell's trip could be a big test for Obama's Middle East policy.
- Erik Tarloff bemoans the hostility and partisan nature of any debate about the Middle East.
- Stephen Walt has some suggestions on how not to contain Iran.
Waking from its sleep
The Arab world has experienced two decades of political stagnation. But there is a fever under the surface More»
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