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Abdul Sattar Qassem

The author is a professor at Al-Najah National University, Palestine.

 

Items by Abdul Sattar Qassem

  • The Palestinians between reconciliation and national unity

    All Palestinians, on every level and front, are concerned with the issue of reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas. A lot is focused on the search for this elusive concord. Many Arab states and Palestinian domestic parties have tried to mediate a reconciliation agreement in an effort to end this devastating...

  • The partisanship of Egypt's judiciary

    In every country in the world, the judiciary is the source of justice and it delivers justice to the oppressed, or so it should be. The judiciary is the entity that should reassure people, regardless of their affiliations, that the law is applied to everyone without exception and should...

  • The PA and the Security Council

    Following in the footsteps of the Arab regimes, the Palestinian Authority continuously rushes to the United Nations in the hope of finding a light that would lead to the settlement of the Palestinian issue. However, just like the other Arab regimes, the PA is disappointed and frustrated either because...

  • You can't take terrorism away from the terrorist

    Nowadays, America is intensifying its efforts for what it calls combatting terrorism. It is working very hard to establish an international coalition consisting mainly of Arab countries to combat terrorism, especially the Islamic State organisation (ISIS). It is apparent that America is speaking against terrorism extensively and is making many...

  • The resistance is making history

    The Palestinian issue suffered a decline in the regional media with the onset of the Arab uprisings. Indeed, many believed that the issue had been consigned to the history books and would disappear, submerged by the chaos affecting Arab countries. There are those who were very happy to see such...

  • America's struggle to maintain unipolar domination

    The fall of the Soviet Union pleased America immensely, but the return of its ghost in Russia as a major player on the international stage is a concern. Post-Cold War, the US president could strut the stage at the head of the world’s only superpower, able to threaten and...

  • Resuming the negotiations which never really stopped

    The news that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are to be resumed after a publicly announced three year break hasn’t been confirmed by the release of any formal agreement between US Secretary of State John Kerry and the Palestinian Authority. This, of course, may never materialise, but we can consider the fact...