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Dominique Roch is a regular analyst and special correspondent for The Arab Weekly.
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BEIRUT - The United Nations has sounded an alarm on the staggering number of civilian casualties

Beirut - Despite diplomatic achievements in 2015, such as Palestinians effectively joining the I

PARIS - Despite Israeli charges that the European Commission guidelines for the mandatory labell

Beirut - Forget about the excitement of being, say, the first and only war correspondent to unc

PARIS - European consumers should, by the end of 2015, be able to tell if the Israeli goods they
The new wave of Palestinian anger expressed on the streets of Jerusalem and the West Bank comes a

BEIRUT - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius linked Paris’s recent decision to investigate all

PARIS - Clashes that placed Palestinian demonstrators against Israeli security forces inside and

BEIRUT - For almost three years, the Palestinians of Yarmouk district on the edge of Damascus ha

PARIS - For the past few weeks, there has been a flurry of diplomatic activities led by Russia an

BEIRUT - No doubt, 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh would not have wanted to become the worldwide symb

Paris - Emboldened by its success on the Iran nuclear deal, the Europe Union wants to revive peac

Paris - Despite the French intelligence success in uncovering a plan to attack a military base

PARIS - As the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks in Kuwait and T

Beirut - The resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians was not the only item

Paris - Behind closed doors there was clearly a feeling of frustration in Paris among members of

Paris - Losing a battle is not losing the war, Syrian President Bashar Assad said recently after

BEIRUT - Despite calls by their religious leaders not to leave, Iraqi Christians living in Leban

PARIS - The only similarity between Cannes on the French Riviera and Gaza was the red carpet un