
Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
Professor in the Department of Political Science, Kuwait University
Items by Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
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- January 23, 2025 Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
The debate over the narratives of victory and defeat in the war on Gaza
Israel’s acceptance of the ceasefire agreement sparked controversy over its three stages, stopping Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza after arduous negotiations and mediation led by Qatar, Egypt, the Biden administration, and Trump’s envoy to the Middle East. It was reached despite the inflexibility, evasion and avoidance of Israeli Prime...
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- December 3, 2024 Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
2024: The year of setbacks for Iran and its axis
History will record that the year 2024 was a critical year with all its phases, developments and wars, inflicting severe harm to the project and status of Iran, its axis and its allies more than any year before it. Israel’s aggression continued in its war of extermination on Gaza. The...
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- October 25, 2024 Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
Israel: From Haniyeh and Nasrallah to Sinwar… A strategic failure
History teaches us that ideas and ideologies do not fade and end with the assassination and killing of their leaders and founders but, rather, they rediscover themselves through its members and staff who emerged, trained and acquired intellectual, ideological and even combat expertise and capabilities. Yahya Sinwar, the architect of...
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- July 24, 2024 Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
Netanyahu’s dilemma is the decline of deterrence and the exposure of the occupation
Israel has always prided itself on its ability to wage sudden, short wars against Arab states and defeat them without the need to fight within the territories it has occupied since the 1948 Nakba and the June 1967 Naksa. It invaded Lebanon to fight, and has fought six wars...
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- May 21, 2024 Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
The latest Arab Summit and the ongoing Palestinian catastrophes
I was hoping that the latest Arab Summit, the thirty-third, which the Kingdom of Bahrain hosted for the first time, would be called the “Gaza Summit” in keeping with King Salman Bin Abdulaziz calling the twenty-ninth Arab gathering the “Jerusalem Summit” in 2018. “Let everyone near and far know...
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- February 5, 2024 Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
Illusions and obstacles to the two-state solution initiatives after the Gaza war
One of the most prominent results of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza and its residents, who were cornered in Rafah on the Egyptian border to force them to migrate to Sinai, is the spread of Arab and international awareness and informing the public of the...
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- November 7, 2023 Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
Biden's falling moral standard and his bad bet on his fallen partner, Netanyahu
I ended my last article “Israel’s war will not eliminate Hamas … it will eliminate Netanyahu” by saying “Netanyahu’s chaotic leading of a tyrannical adventure will push him to his death, the fall of his fascist government and the end of his political career and his extremist government after...
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- October 31, 2023 Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
Israel's war will not eliminate Hamas ... it will eliminate Netanyahu
Since the beginning of Israel’s brutal aggression against the Gaza Strip, its siege and the cutting off of all basic supplies, such as water, electricity and fuel to operate hospital generators, it has been committing widespread and diverse war crimes on many levels, including barbaric and brutal bombing of...
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- September 26, 2023 Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
Saudi Arabia is strengthening its leadership role in the Middle East
The rise of Saudi Arabia in various Gulf, Arab, regional and international issues cannot be overlooked. The Kingdom has imposed itself as an influential player in regional reconciliations, and in the transition from confrontations and cold wars, especially with Iran and its proxies from Yemen to Iraq and from...
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- June 22, 2023 Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
Are we seeing Saudi Arabia taking steps to lead the region in world affairs?
Two weeks ago, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made his second official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, his first since the success of Chinese mediation between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and the end of the cold war between the two countries. The US was surprised by...
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- June 21, 2022 Dr Abdullah Khalifa Al-Shayji
Will Biden's visit reassure allies and prevent another war in the Middle East?
US President Joe Biden’s first visit to the Middle East is scheduled for 13-16 July after he has already made five overseas trips elsewhere. This illustrates the declining position of the region in US foreign policy, compared with his predecessor Donald Trump, whose first foreign visit as president was...