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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Saudi’s Bandar Bin Sultan shouldn’t bank on shaving his beard to celebrate Zionist victory
On the eve of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, the Saudi Ambassador to Washington, reportedly sat on the arm of the chair on which US President George W Bush was sitting and said, “I will only shave my beard after you strike Iraq.”...
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It’s time to tear up the Oslo Accords
No sane person can refuse to consider reconciliation between conflicting parties, especially if they are from the same land. It is hard to believe that reconciliation is possible between two parties heading in the opposite direction, even if they prayed for the party going against history, geography and religion...
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Security coordination with Israel and normalisation are two sides of the same coin
The statements made by Palestinian Authority officials are laughable rather than provocative. They are immoral and fraudulent, and falsify the facts. Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki, for example, has announced that the state of Palestine has quit its revolving chairmanship of the Arab League in protest at its position on...
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The League of Shame (Part 2)
The rejection of the Palestinian draft resolution by the Arab League was not a self-inflicted coup de grâce, but rather the last nail in its coffin; the league has been clinically dead for many years. It is revived whenever ordered by its master in the White House, as happened...
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The League of Shame, part 1
I did not expect a courageous response from the so-called Arab league regarding the UAE-Israel normalisation agreement, because the dead cannot talk, and the Arab League is basically dead and buried after rejecting the draft Palestinian resolution to condemn the deal. It did so despite the fact that such...
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Macron and the weak return of French colonialists
French colonialists have returned to Lebanon, with President Emmanuel Macron wanting to restore the colonial “glory” of his predecessors in the region who tortured the people and looted their wealth and resources. Macron went to Lebanon last month as a new conqueror, on the centenary of the establishment of...
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The alliance between the UAE and Israel is a poisoned dagger in the Arabs’ back
Following the public announcement of the Zionist-Emirati love affair, a US-Israel-UAE deal was signed to supply F-35 aircraft to the Gulf State. This was viewed as controversial within decision-making circles in Washington and Tel Aviv, prompting US President Donald Trump to defend the agreement with a businessman’s mentality: “They...
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In fifteen years between Hariri’s assassination and the Beirut explosion what did we learn?
There is no doubt that the verdict of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon regarding the assassination of Rafic Hariri, the former Prime Minister, shocked those searching for the truth. The court’s ruling was a disappointment, because it acquitted the leaders of the criminal Syrian regime and Hezbollah, and only...
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The functionary state is officially in Israel’s embrace: Part two
Read part one here. As I mentioned in my earlier article, what is going on behind the scenes is even more serious and dangerous than what we are seeing out in the open today. Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv’s cooperation is based on fighting Islam under the pretext of fighting “terrorism”...
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The functionary state is officially in Israel’s embrace: Part one
In my previous article, I wondered, in whose interest the battle that the UAE is calling for and wants to ignite between Egypt and Turkey will be, in order to understand the truth of its functionary role. Who is it playing for and in whose interest? Which state is...
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The UAE is working against Turkey, but for how long?
The UAE has been the spearhead in the wars against the Arab nations demanding freedom, justice and equality. It has been entrusted with the task of destabilising the region, fighting Islam around the world and acting in the vanguard of the counter-revolutions against the Arab Spring. Although small in size,...
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The UAE is a tool in the service of the US and Israel
The United Arab Emirates is a relatively a young country that is small in both area and political weight. Nevertheless, it has the ability to conspire against Muslims, not only in the Arab world, but also around the world, from Mali to Turkey, the Balkans — where it is...
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July is the month for coups
Although the month of June comes and goes every year, the effects of incidents during the month are apparently never ending. In June, 1967, for example, Israel defeated the Arab armies in the Six Day War. The Arabs lost Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque, the West Bank, the Sinai Peninsula and...
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Political meddling may lead to the Tunisian revolution being killed off
Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution was the icon of the Arab Spring that put some spirit in the Arab countries having been clinically dead for many years. The people rose up in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria against oppressive rulers and tyrants, overthrowing them all except Bashar Al-Assad in Syria, who...
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Hagia Sophia reconnects modern Turkey with the legacy of the Ottomans
There is no doubt that Turkey’s decision to annul the 1934 Council of Ministers edict to convert the Hagia Sophia Mosque into a museum has pleased Muslims around the world. The mosque, it has been confirmed, was the personal property of Sultan Mehmet II, and he decreed that it...
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Will Libya be the rock which destroys NATO?
The current dispute between two important NATO members, France and Turkey, over their opposing views on Libya could be the beginning of the end for the alliance. If the differences escalate, will Libya be the rock upon which NATO founders? This is not an easy issue given that the...
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Ahmed Erekat was executed with the blessing of Abbas and the Oslo people
Ahmed Erekat was not the first Palestinian to be killed by the Israeli occupation forces in cold blood, nor will he be the last to be killed “because he tried to attack” them. The young man was shot dead as he helped his sister with her wedding preparations. Instead...
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The US Caesar Act is four years too late
Nobody — not the killer Bashar Al-Assad and his supporters; not the Iranians; and not the Russians — could have ever expected that an unknown person would come from the heart of the Assad regime to turn the tables on all of them. The unknown individual was a Syrian...
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Will Netanyahu accomplish what Ben-Gurion couldn’t?
An Israeli newspaper said that the countdown to the implementation of the plan to annex the West Bank and the Jordan Valley has already begun, explaining that the Israeli security services are preparing to count the Palestinian residents located in the areas covered by Trump’s plan and which will supposedly fall under Israeli...
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Does Martin Luther King’s ‘dream’ or Malcolm X’s ‘nightmare’ await America?
Two weeks have passed since the murder of George Floyd, who was suffocated under the knee of a white policeman in Minneapolis. Protests still sweep cities across the US, despite the imposition of curfews. Perhaps the most important of these cities is New York, home of the World Trade Centre....
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The ‘I can’t breathe’ protests target police brutality and injustice
The protests in the wake of the killing of black American citizen George Floyd by a white police officer have spread way beyond the city of Minneapolis where it happened. Protesters have taken to the streets in cities across the US. Citizens burnt down the precinct police station in Minneapolis...
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Omar Al-Mukhtar’s Libya is now fighting a global proxy war
As I have said before, I was counting on the Libyan heroes of the February Revolution to continue their struggle against the reckless criminal Khalifa Haftar, and defeat his mercenary militias. My intuition proved to be right when the Libyans managed not only to control all the cities of...
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The Nakba in its 72nd year
This year marks the seventy-second anniversary of the usurpation of our beloved Palestine and the anniversary comes as the world is occupied by the coronavirus pandemic and the imposed lockdowns. Therefore, we haven’t seen any gatherings or mass protests to commemorate its painful memory. Instead, everyone is commemorating it in their...
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Libya’s Don Quixote Haftar
Almost a year ago, when the coup leader Khalifa Haftar attacked the Libyan capital Tripoli with his mercenary militias, I wrote an article in which I said, “The battle of Tripoli is a decisive battle between the forces of the revolution and the counter-revolution forces; it separates truth from...