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Mahmoud Abbas’s collapse

It was not a slip up, but rather a national and moral slip by Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in his recent statements. He launched a sharp attack on the...

yesterday 6

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Thaher Saleh

Netanyahu’s speech on Saturday made his strategy clear

In an unusual move, Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Israeli people on Saturday evening, at the end of the Sabbath. This suggested that he was...

previous day 20

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Suhail Kewan

Echoes of burning flesh: From ‘The Napalm Girl’ to Hind Rajab

What happened to six-year-old Hind Rajab on 29 January, 2024, is a haunting echo of the horror that befell nine-year-old Kim Phuc in the Vietnamese...

previous day 20

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

A senior Indonesian parliamentary official speaks for Gaza, but more needs to be done

The Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) Puan Maharani spoke at the inter-parliamentary forum in Istanbul recently and delivered...

previous day 20

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Palestinian voices are throttled by the promotion of foreign agendas

Almost all political rhetoric about Israel’s genocide in Gaza completely misses the point. That includes the Palestinian Authority’s purported...

previous day 9

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Ramona Wadi

‘Open prison’: UK lawmakers decry ‘heartbreaking’ conditions after West Bank visit

Two British lawmakers, who recently visited the Occupied West Bank to witness first-hand the conditions faced by Palestinians, described the...

previous day 9

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Anadolu Agency

‘Voluntary migration’ doesn’t disguise Israel’s forced displacement campaign in Gaza amid deafening international silence

Israel is no longer concealing its intention to forcibly displace Palestinians from their homeland, as it now announces this plan more openly than...

previous day 10

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Euromed Monitor

Israel faces surge of petitions to end Gaza war

As the bloody assault on Gaza continues, Israel is witnessing an unprecedented surge in petitions, letters and public statements signed by hundreds...

previous day 10

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Aziz Mustafa

Sheikh Zayed lacked faith in US protection of allied Arab leaders during difficult times, British documents reveal

Newly unearthed British documents reveal that Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder and late president of the United Arab Emirates,...

wednesday 6

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Amer Sultan

The re-engagement of Anatolia with the Levant

The relationship between Turkiye and Syria is like a dense tapestry woven with threads of imperial legacy, ideological divergence and strategic...

wednesday 2

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Dr Elif Selin Calik

The Board of Deputies of British Jews missed a possible turning point

It was with some surprise that I read the letter to the Financial Times signed by 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BOD)...

wednesday 20

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Professor Kamel Hawwash

The implications of the Trump envoy's return and Putin's gratitude to Hamas

It appears that the time given by US President Donald Trump to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “finish the job” in the Gaza Strip is...

wednesday 10

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Hazem Ayyad

Forgive Me, Gaza...

I write forgive me, not forgive us, because this guilt is deeply personal. It’s a burden I carry in the comfort of my home, sipping clean water...

wednesday 10

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Jamal Kanj

Deporting dissent: The dangerous precedent set by the persecution of pro-Palestine activists

“Rights are granted to those who align with power,” Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student, eloquently wrote from his cell. This...

22.04.2025 7

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

Euphemistic practices: The IDF, killing aid workers and self-investigation

Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice. Killing civilians...

22.04.2025 8

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

The Zionist enemy will not manage to seize the Resistance's weapons

The enemy’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has stipulated that Hamas must surrender its weapons and its brave men and their families must...

22.04.2025 10

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Dr Amira Abo El-Fetouh

Fatwa chaos deepens Gaza's suffering

Despite the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip — now surpassing 560 days and resulting in over 51,000 martyrs and 116,000 injured — the...

22.04.2025 10

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Mahmoud Hassan

Gaza’s unquenchable thirst: The water tragedy amid relentless bombardment and total blockade

Under the weight of war and a suffocating blockade, more than two million people in the Gaza Strip are facing an unprecedented water crisis that...

22.04.2025 1

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Dr. Abdulmajed Al-Aloul

Breaking down Netanyahu’s ‘no choice’ narrative

According to Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel has no choice but to keep fighting in Gaza. There’s another definition of genocide coming...

22.04.2025 3

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Ramona Wadi

Tehran and Washington as natural allies in an artificial order

One of the paradoxes of contemporary history is that political shifts in the United States—particularly during the Trump era—unexpectedly brought...

21.04.2025 4

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Peter Rodgers

The myth of conquest: Why Gaza will never be subdued by Israel

To conquer a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that...

21.04.2025 9

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

The generals of Islamabad and their Zionist daydream

The generals in Islamabad—ever resplendent in starched uniforms and an exaggerated sense of self-importance—are once again casting furtive glances...

21.04.2025 1

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Junaid S. Ahmad