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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Crimes of apartheid do not have a statute of limitations
There is no doubt that the report by Amnesty International issued earlier this month pleased all the free people of the world, not only the Palestinians, and gave us a little hope that there is still some conscience in the international institutions which are typically totally biased towards Israel...
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Putin wants to turn the clock back and must be reined in
Since former KGB officer Vladimir Putin rose to power in Russia in 2000, he has dreamed of recreating the Soviet Union with its political and military influence, and rivalry with the US. He is working hard to return the independent former Soviet republics to Russia under his rule. To...
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Bin Salman is taking Saudi Arabia back to the days of ignorance
Few Muslims, I imagine, would have wished for Saudi Arabia to “modernise” and reach the condition that it is in today in terms of changing its identity and culture. The land of the Two Holy Mosques in Makkah and Madinah is on its way to becoming a secular state,...
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So Hariri has cried and left Lebanon’s politics, and the Shia suburbs cried with him
The Switzerland of the East with majestic mountains covered in green trees and snow; valleys running between them like white pearls, with rivers that dazzle the eyes and grab the hearts; magnificent legendary buildings and heritage; a country of science, culture, civilisation and urbanisation; a country of wealth, beauty...
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The revolution was assassinated by its own people
We are about to commemorate the eleventh anniversary of the Egyptian revolution. If the coup which brought Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to power was not staged in 2013, I believe that the Syrian revolution would have succeeded; who knows what the fate of the killer Bashar Al-Assad would then have...
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January reminds us that the torch of freedom is still burning
As soon as the month of January comes upon us, the memories of the Arab Spring are revived, despite all the painful blows that followed as the collective conscience of the Arab people was confined. Nevertheless, the memories remain, and the revolution is part of our history. The uprisings that...
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Does the killer Soleimani really deserve to be eulogised?
Hamas official Dr Mahmoud Al-Zahar spoke at the memorial ceremony for the criminal killer Qasem Soleimani on the second anniversary of his assassination at the hands of the Americans. Zahar praised this criminal and his courage and support for the Palestinian resistance. He glorified him and described him as...
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2021 may be gone, but its crises are still with us
The year 2021 may be gone, but its crises are still with us, and many of them affect the Arab world and were inherited from previous years. The year’s heavy legacy has been passed on to 2022. The crises it contains will continue to grow until they explode. I try...
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Hezbollah lost while Hamas won
Khaled Meshaal, head of Hamas abroad, has received an invitation to visit Lebanon by a number of Palestinian figures living in Lebanon. It was natural for the matter to be discussed within the Movement’s political bureau, which decided that the visit would be in mid-December, coinciding with the anniversary...
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Gaddafi is an idea that does not die
When Muammar Gaddafi declared the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in 1977, he invented a new way for the people to govern themselves. Not through democracy and the ballot box, but by what he called the General People’s Committee, wherein he placed his informants, followers, and supporters. Instead...
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Zionist sperm in the womb of Arab cinema!
I am at a loss for words to describe the film, Amira. The least we can say about this film is that it is a vile and despicable film that not only offends the honourable Palestinian prisoners, who pay the price for their heroic stances and their defence of...
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Lebanon may be independent, but it still depends on too many other states
Lebanon marks its “independence day” on 22 November annually, the day that it became independent of France in 1943. Or did it? Is Lebanon really independent? It has sovereignty over its land, and it can make decisions without external pressure from Paris, so why am I asking such questions? France...
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Blows continue to rain down on the Arab world, from its own people and from its enemies
“Two blows to the head hurt,” says an Egyptian proverb. But what if there are three? The UAE has announced, for example, that Israel is going to sell 50 million cubic metres of water annually to Jordan, on top of the 55m cubic metres provided free of charge, as explained...
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The surreal scene in Libya
There is no doubt that the appearance of Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, wearing his father’s cloak while presenting his candidacy papers for the presidency, provoked the wrath and anger of millions of Libyans, who revolted against his criminal tyrant father in a great revolution that he could not confront. He...
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Israel has become the gateway to government in the Arab world
The Arab people are living in their worst and darkest of times, experiencing an unprecedented level of humiliation and disgrace. The people have never approached their enemies asking for forgiveness and presenting themselves as loyal to the oppressors; nor have they sought to normalise relations with killers who shed...
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Civil forces in Sudan are the ones who lost their revolution
The counter-revolutions are still waging their fierce war against the revolutions of the Arab peoples. After burying the revolutions in Syria, Libya and Yemen, they marched north on Tunisia, the cradle of the Arab Spring revolutions, to make the birthplace of the Arab Spring its cemetery where it would...
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Is Lebanon the latest battlefield in the war between Saudi Arabia and Iran?
Lebanon is plagued by crises, with a new one added almost daily. The people are suffering from power cuts and fuel shortages, and queue for hours at petrol stations and bakeries. Daily life has become unbearable. There is also the conflict between the Lebanese armed forces and Hezbollah to...
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The Lebanese people are living in terror
I have become very cautious when writing or reading an article using the phrase “unprecedented” or “not the same as before” when referring to an important event as we, writers, become excited in the heat of the moment and raise our hopes, imagining an earthquake would hit and change...
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A rehearsal for a civil war in Lebanon
The scenes of masked snipers and the lines of contact between Ain El-Remmaneh and Chyah in Beirut brought back the nightmare of the civil war that Lebanon witnessed in the mid-1970s and 1980s, lasting 17 years. The area in Tabbouna Square, located between the Badaro area which has a Christian...
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The acts of Abbas’s comedy theatre continue
I still laugh sarcastically whenever I hear a speech or statement issued by Mahmoud Abbas, President of the security coordination authority with Israel. I am enraged, saddened and pained at the fact that this old man, who is over 86 years old, is the one in charge of the...
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Where is Tunisia heading?
Tunisian President, Kais Saied, continues his coup against the Constitution and extends the State of Emergency, exceptional laws, freezing parliament, lifting immunity from parliamentarians, and abolishing all oversight bodies. He has turned an exceptional situation into a permanent state of affairs as if there was no Revolution, nothing has...
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There is a fine line between a cold war and open warfare
When Australia cancelled its French submarine deal and replaced it with a US nuclear submarine deal, Switzerland followed a similar path, deciding to buy the F-35 aircraft from America instead of France’s Dassault Rafale combat aircraft. Less than 24 hours later, Romania announced that it no longer wanted to...
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France seems cursed, and it’s all down to Macron
As deceivers in world politics go, the offspring of Zionist capitalism takes some beating. As soon as Emmanuel Macron appeared on the scene as president of France, he dared to insult Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and defended the criminals who republished the infamous Charlie Hebdo cartoons as...
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The Palestinians are already free; it is we who are held captive by Zionism
Palestine is still the cradle of the world’s free people. The Palestinians are still the source of inspiration and hope for the Arab people who are oppressed and held captive inside their homelands. Fascist tyrant rulers, appointed by the colonialists before their departure, are still on their thrones. The...