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Items by Yvonne Ridley
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Trump's reckless gamble with world peace
Iran is not given to knee-jerk reactions, but those who run the country are extremely unpredictable nonetheless. That is why it is so difficult to anticipate what will result from the assassination of the nation’s well-loved and respected Major General Qassem Soleimani. Just a few days ago, the equally unpredictable...
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The crisis in the Gaza Strip shames the world as ‘unliveable’ 2020 arrives
It’s that time of year again when vast amounts of money are spent on celebrating the New Year. Nowadays that often means wasteful firework displays with money quite literally going up in smoke. This time, we are also entering a new decade, and already the great and the good...
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The stench of injustice hangs over the Khashoggi murder trial
Once again the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is headline news around the world after a court in Saudi Arabia announced the death sentence for five men and long jail terms for three others, all of whom were found guilty of the grisly killing in Turkey in October last...
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Will the ICC actually hold Israel to account over war crimes?
Why does Israel consider itself to be above the law? And why do supporters of the Zionist state look the other way when its war crimes raise their ugly head? Accusations followed by routine denials are the norm now that the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has announced that...
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'King' Trump lashes US Jews for not loving Israel enough
Rabid Zionist Donald Trump has proved once again that you can stand up in a room full of Jewish supporters and spew out anti-Semitic tropes with complete immunity as long as you give unconditional support to Israel. The US President, who earlier this year embraced the title “King of...
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The Zionists seeking to silence Corbyn are focusing on the wrong target
Around the same time that Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was pressed on his party’s record on anti-Semitism, an American pastor and supporter of Donald Trump unleashed an hour-long TV rant around what he believes is a “Jew coup” to impeach the US President. However, as far as...
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Mohamed Morsi and journalism have both been killed in Sisi’s Egypt
There has never been a more dangerous time to be a journalist than in the 21st century because the simple act of telling the truth can cost you your life. Despotic regimes that routinely crush human rights will first try to control the media as they go about the...
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Trump delivers another blow to Palestinians
In the world of US President Donald Trump, the illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land with flagrant disregard for international law have been declared legal. The acquisition of territory through military means remains illegal in international laws and conventions, but that has not deterred this wretched president....
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Israel's precision propaganda tries to justify the slaughter of innocents
The seriously misnamed Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and its supporters get very upset when members of the fifth largest army in the world are accused of targeting innocent women and children. They issue vehement denials to the world even though that is exactly what happens as a direct consequence...
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Don't lose sight of Syria's main terrorist leader
So, after a dramatic press conference presided over by Donald Trump, we are led to believe that Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi died in an underground tunnel “whimpering and crying” like a dog. There will be few tears shed for the terrorist leader and, not surprisingly, the US military...
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When giving bread to Gaza is a crime
Qatari envoy Mohammed Al-Emadi arrived in the Gaza Strip last weekend with $180 million to distribute among Palestinians in need. In Gaza’s case, that means virtually the whole population as they lurch from one humanitarian crisis to another thanks to the brutal siege imposed by Israel on one side...
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Is this the beginning of the end of America’s bungling foreign policy in the Middle East?
I’m bamboozled by all the hand-wringing over the retreat of US troops from Middle Eastern soil in recent weeks. Some American soldiers were pelted with rotten vegetables as their convoy rolled out of northern Syria after President Donald Trump said he wanted to extricate America from “endless wars” in...
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The US has betrayed the Kurds, yet again
As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rolled out the military offensive called “Operation Peace Spring” on his country’s southern border with Syria, the big surprise was not the invasion itself but the reaction from the neighbouring Kurds and their supporters. All are, collectively, still reeling. Erdoğan has proved, once again,...
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Critics of conditions in Gaza Zoo expose the value placed on Palestinian lives
Animal rights activists are furious that a zoo in the Gaza Strip which was shut down earlier this year because of the poor conditions has reopened with lions billed as the main attraction. The big cats were apparently smuggled into the tiny Palestinian enclave via tunnels from Egypt recently. Personally,...
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Jamal Khashoggi: questions still need answers, while hypocrisy is rife
The first anniversary of the barbaric murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi is approaching, but most world leaders apparently wish that we would forget about it and move on, none more so than the petulant Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’ de facto ruler. His fawning ministers...
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Orthodox Jews are blamed for Israel's 'Titanic' moment, but the Palestinians will pay the price
The fall of the Zionist State of Israel is being forecast by a leading Israeli academic, but his prediction has nothing to do with the latest election crisis which has left the state divided and fragile. While likening Israel to the ill-fated Titanic, Professor Dan Ben-David of Tel Aviv...
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Scholars for dollars sell out Palestine and its people
Palestine polarises people, of that there is no doubt. Those condemning Palestinians usually do so out of their blind loyalty to the concept of the Zionist State. With today’s backdrop of real and alleged anti-Semitism, and the ever pervasive shadow of the Holocaust, it is easy to see why...
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Assad's debts mount as Putin calls the shots in Syrian ceasefire
It is significant to note that Saturday’s ceasefire in Syria was announced by Russia and not by the ruling Assad dynasty, whose corrupt behaviour triggered the brutal civil war back in 2011. Ironically, it is this same family corruption which could bring an end to the horrific conflict which...
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Israel has hit Gaza with illegal collective punishment because Netanyahu wants more votes
Imagine if rogue neighbours on your street fired off some protest rockets towards the nearby parliament; you probably wouldn’t be too happy about it, and there would be national outrage, and rightly so. Action against the perpetrators would follow swiftly. What would not happen, though, is any form of collective...
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The Palestinians’ inalienable right to return is the real story
European settlers were behind the foundation of the United States of America and Israel, both of which are currently steering a path towards right-wing extremism fuelled by race hate. As such, perhaps we should not be in the slightest bit surprised at the blatant emergence of the three-headed monster...
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This triumvirate of evil has turned its sights on Kashmir
Russian revolutionary leader Lenin once said, “Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.” If we apply this to Narendra Modi and India, we can see that the Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy counts among his closest allies both Israel and...
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Leading British Zionist says Labour's anti-Semitism definition is not fit for purpose
Two of Tony Blair’s closest political allies have joined-in with the ongoing row embroiling pro-Palestine leader Jeremy Corbyn over the Labour Party’s handling of anti-Semitism allegations, claiming that an “existential crisis” is looming due to his poor leadership. It is doubtful that it is entirely coincidental that the attacks...
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Jews are being used as human shields in the war of words over anti-Semitism
US President Donald Trump provoked outrage recently when he launched a blisteringly racist attack against courageous American Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, during which he basically told them to go back home. Many viewed his outburst on women of colour as a descent into...
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The Saudis and UAE abandon Yemen crisis to sabotage Sudan's pro-democracy movement
Shameless is the only word I can find to describe the behaviour of the rulers of both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates who five months ago basked in glory as praise was heaped upon them for jointly pledging well over one billion dollars in the largest ever...
