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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Was the Iranian president's plane crash planned?
Plane crashes involving heads of states are always linked to conspiracies and claims that they were planned in order to effect regime change or other major political upheavals. Bad weather, mechanical malfunctions and the like are often discounted. Everyone likes, and so believes, conspiracy theories, whether from within the...
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Nakba commemoration is taking on a new meaning
The anniversary of the 1948 Palestinian Nakba arrived this year with a unique flavour, amidst the humiliation of the Zionist state over the past eight months of the most violent and longest military offensive that Israel has waged against any Arab adversaries since its establishment in the land of...
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Occupying the Rafah Crossing is no real victory for Netanyahu
Was anyone surprised that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insane determination to stay in power led to him sending tanks to the Palestinian side of the Rafah Crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border, lowering the Palestinian flag and raising the Israeli flag? He is defeated and he knows it. His...
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Turkiye’s decision to cut trade ties with Israel came 7 months too late
After seven months of the fierce Zionist war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Turkiye has finally woken up, and the Erdogan government has suspended all trade with the occupation state of Israel and closed its ports to Israeli ships. The decision, though, came seven months too late. More...
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America is witnessing student revolts; US citizens need to wake up to what’s happening
There is no doubt that the steadfastness of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in the face of the brutal Zionist aggression has inspired the people of the free world. By sacrificing their lives for their country’s freedom and independence, they are breaking the chains that shackle them. After...
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The Iranian attack that exposed the Zionist army
Iran threatened the Zionist state and vowed to respond to the bombing of its embassy in Syria and the killing of 16 people, including a senior commander in the Revolutionary Guards Quds Force and seven other officers on 1 April. The response came on the night of 14 April...
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The bloodied Eid in Gaza
“In what state did you come Eid? Are things the same or is there anything new?” This is how the poet Abu Al-Tayeb Al-Mutanabbi began his poem hundreds of years ago. It still rings true, especially given these dark days and painful circumstances of the brutal Zionist aggression against...
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Why didn’t the US use its veto against the UN Security Council ceasefire resolution?
While I acknowledge that UN Security Council Resolution 2728 calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip came six months too late, there were certainly political factors that prevented such a resolution being agreed any earlier. I appreciate that all of the local, regional and international parties connected to...
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Will Iraq regain its glory?
These days mark the 21st anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, with its sad outcome, its harsh defeats, its estrangement from its Arab surroundings (that conspired against it) and it being, instead, embraced by Iran. Twenty-one lean years have destroyed the civilisation of an ancient country that was...
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As the revolution in Syria enters its 14th year, free Syrians are waiting for the spark to reignite
The Syrian revolution has just entered its fourteenth year. The Arab Spring revolutions swept across the Arab world and broke out in Syria on 15 March, 2011. Had it not been for Russia’s intervention, the Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad would have been overthrown. He preferred Syria to fall into...
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Palestine Land Day 2024 will have a very different feel about it
We are approaching the 48th commemoration of Palestine Land Day, and there is no doubt that 30 March will have very different feel about it this year, with the Palestinians in Gaza being killed and starved in defence of their land against the brutal Zionist military offensive over almost...
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Gaza in Ramadan
There is no doubt that every Muslim with a sound heart and pure soul is experiencing two conflicting feelings upon entering the month of Ramadan this year: a feeling of innate joy in welcoming this holy month, which the Islamic nation eagerly awaits every year and receives with decorations,...
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These airdrops of humanitarian aid are hypocrisy in action
In order to hide the shame of complicity in Israel’s destruction of Gaza, the killing and starvation of the Palestinian people, and to save face in front of the world, airdrops have been used to parachute humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave. Jordan’s King Abdullah II started this as...
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The lie of the Palestinian state
The more that the pressure on the leaders of the Zionist state has intensified, the more that its friends in the West have promised to establish a Palestinian state in order to end the 76-year conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians and stabilise the Middle East. Such “promises”,...
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The displacement plan is still present, but …
Reuters news agency and the American channel, CNN, published a report, supported by satellite images, about what is happening on the Egyptian Rafah border, in what was said to be a buffer zone with an area of 20 square kilometres near the border. Equipped tents are being built in...
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The victor gets to set the conditions for peace
When a war comes to its conclusion, the two parties generally sit at the negotiating table, either face to face or through intermediaries, to thrash out the terms of the ceasefire. The victor usually speaks first, setting out their terms and conditions. The vanquished generally has no option but...
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Zionist attacks against UNRWA are proof of the global war on Gaza
It was no surprise to seer the US and its Western allies suspend their funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), as they are all involved in one way or another in the war against the Palestinians in Gaza alongside...
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We did not protect Egypt’s 25 January Revolution, and look where we are now
The thirteenth anniversary of Egypt’s glorious 25 January Revolution passed quietly. The media did not commemorate it, and it was completely absent from the programme schedules. It is no longer called the January Revolution officially, but the “January events”, which are blamed on the deteriorating economic conditions in the...
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Legitimate resistance is the key to a Palestinian victory
The genocidal Zionist war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has been ongoing for nearly four months without the occupation state achieving any of its stated goals. It has not eliminated Hamas, and has not been able to liberate the Israelis held hostage by the movement. Instead, some...
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South Africa did what the Arab countries should have done, but didn’t
It was not done by a neighbouring Arab country that shares its borders, nor an Islamic country that belongs to the same religion. Rather, it was done by a country thousands of kilometres away. It was the people of South Africa who were horrified by the bloodshed in the...
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Arouri’s assassination was not an Israeli victory; it confirmed its defeat
The Zionist state of Israel has been unable to present its people with any victory on the battlefield that they can celebrate with their flags and be proud of their supposedly invincible army. There is no military credibility in killing innocent civilians, mainly children and women. The so-called Israel...
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A purely Palestinian year
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October is the most important event, not only in the year 2023, but it is the most important since the October War of 1973, i.e., half a century ago. It is the earthquake that shook the entire world, and shook the ground beneath the...
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Israel shall not achieve in peace what it could not get through war
After more than 80 days of brutal and ferocious war on Gaza Strip, the Zionist entity has not achieved any of the goals it announced before the war. It hasn’t been able to eliminate Hamas, nor has it been able to free Israeli prisoners. Rather, it killed three of...
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A night on which the Zionists wept
When the Shujaya neighbourhood in Gaza was stormed last week, it was a very dark night, especially for the Zionist enemies. The moon, though, shone brightly in the sky above the besieged Palestinian territory, a territory filled with pride and dignity. It was a night on which the Arab...