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Articles of the author Luke Baker
With a roll of the dice and shouts of ‘yalla', Jews and Arabs face off
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — In the early evening on a backstreet in downtown occupied Jerusalem, Arabs and Jews are milling around, preparing for battle. But this isn't a new round of Middle East violence, it's a showdown over shesh besh, the local name (...)

02 - 03 - 2017
Diplomatic ties help Israel defang international criticism
Ahead of the release last week of a report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the Quartet of Middle East mediators, the word from diplomats was that it would be hard-hitting, especially on Israel and its settlement building. The United States, (...)

06 - 07 - 2016
With demolitions, Israel tightens squeeze on WB
In the past three months, the Israeli military has more than tripled its demolitions of Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank, United Nations' figures show, raising alarm among diplomats and human rights groups over what they regard as a (...)

09 - 04 - 2016
Corruption crackdown — Palestinian graft chief claws back $70m, more to recoup
The head of the Palestinian anti-corruption body says he has clawed back $70 million in five years but his investigators have failed to uncover evidence to justify allegations that hundreds of millions of dollars in government funds have gone (...)

26 - 02 - 2016
Acclaimed Palestinian theater in Jerusalem faces closure
The Palestinian National Theater, which for three decades has been the leading performing arts and cultural centre for Arabs in occupied Jerusalem, is facing closure after running up large municipal debts, its director said on Friday. Known as "Al (...)

28 - 11 - 2015
Plenty of diplomacy but slim hope for ME peace
Flare-ups in violence between Israel and the Palestinians have often accelerated peace efforts — the first intifada led into the Oslo accords of the mid-1990s and the second gave rise to the Arab and Geneva peace initiatives. But the latest surge in (...)

24 - 10 - 2015
Searching for glimmers of euro
Reuters After two years of turmoil that has shattered confidence in the economics and politics of European monetary union, it would be rash in the extreme to suggest an end is in sight. But through the pall of gloom that has hung over Brussels (...)

04 - 01 - 2012
Britain and NATO struggle for Afghanistan numbers
and-a-half years into an operation to secure vast desert reaches of Afghanistan from the Taleban, British commanders quietly admit they are seriously undermanned. While the official line is that Prime Minister Gordon Brown must decide if more (...)

12 - 09 - 2008
Uneven terrain
LAST week US Captain Roger Hill led a patrol into the Jaldez valley, just southwest of Kabul, and was immediately ambushed from three sides by 50 Taleban fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenades. The army of attackers, robed and bearded, fired (...)

09 - 05 - 2008
Five years on, Britain seeks low-key exit from Iraq
FIVE years after declaring it stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the United States in sending troops to invade Iraq, Britain is quietly easing its way out. Some 150,000 US troops remain in Iraq, but just 4,100 Britons - a tenth of the British invasion (...)

20 - 03 - 2008
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