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Trump tells Hamas, 'Only sick, twisted people keep bodies,' but what about Israel?
US President Donald Trump threatened the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, on Wednesday with “severe consequences” if it continues to hold Israeli captives and the bodies of dead hostages. “Only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are sick and twisted!” said Trump on his social media platform. “Shalom...
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Palestine condemns Fiji's decision to open embassy to Israel in Jerusalem
Palestine has strongly condemned Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka’s decision to open the country’s embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, calling it a violation of international law and relevant UN resolutions. The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, issued separate statements late on Tuesday, urging the Fijian...
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Did Palestinian fighters rape and sexually assault Israelis on 7 October?
The devastating Israeli war on the Palestinian people in Gaza didn’t only reveal the hypocrisy of the West, but also debunked the Western media’s claims that they abide by the rules of professionalism and neutrality in covering events. We have previously said Western media is biased to the Israeli narrative...
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Western hypocrisy on Palestine is at an unprecedented level
The latest example of Western hypocrisy is Germany’s outrageous and unjustified campaign against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who described the ongoing Israeli onslaught against the people of occupied Palestine as a “holocaust”. Such hypocrisy is at an unprecedented level. Despite the daily killing of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers and the...
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UN complacent for allowing extremist Gilad Erdan’s senior UN post appointment
The appointment of Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan on 7 June to the post of vice-president of the UN General Assembly was not only provocative to the feelings of the Palestinian people, but also an insult and disgrace to the values of humanity and justice...
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What is left for Turkiye to be in the western camp? The Armenian tragedy and the last fig leaf
The US – and most of the western governments – stance on the issue of the Armenian tragedy of 1915 was the last in a series of western positions that harmed their relations with Turkiye. Over the past decades, despite being a sincere and indispensable ally – as many...
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Does Turkey need the EU anyway?
Australia’s scrapping of the French submarines deal constitutes a turning point in the strength and solidarity of the Western alliance headed by the US, which dominated the world stage following the end of the Cold War period and the formation of the Western-oriented world order. Over the past three decades,...