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Items by Faisal Qassem
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This will be the new Syria if the Syrians remain silent
Everything we are hearing and reading about the political solution in Syria is nothing but a waste of time and jiggery-pokery. Do not believe that the UN or any other major power is interested in reaching solutions that please the people or achieve justice in crisis-stricken countries. On top of...
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Was Obama truthful with the Syrians for us to expect Trump to be?
There exists absolutely no sliver of a doubt that every single major settler-colonial power in the history of the world lacked morals. It is impossible for the coloniser to have moral standing to begin with. I believe that the Americans have exhibited a level of superiority in acting as...
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Arabs must not dream of freedom
Were popular revolutions much easier in the past? Were people able to take their rights into their own hands in days gone by, but are now powerless even after sacrificing everything? I have said repeatedly over the past seven years — the age of the Arab Spring — that...
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Long live the heroes of creative chaos
It is not true that America is plotting against us, as the basics of a plot involve secrecy and hatching it in the dark. More importantly, it must be unannounced. This definitely does not apply to the US projects we are calling conspiracies. What sets the Americans apart is the...
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We can learn from Italy and Israel
We Arabs may be the people in the world who write the most poetry and romantic odes about human virtues such as brotherhood, justice, equality and the need to protect humanity, its soul and its right to inheritance. Our emotions, though, are nothing more in today’s reality. The fact that...