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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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Saudi-Israel normalisation seeks the complete surrender of the Palestinians
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was very clear about Saudi Arabia’s inclination towards normalising with the Zionist enemy in his speech at the UN General Assembly: Israel, he claimed, is “at the cusp” of normalisation with the Kingdom. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman said that his country...
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The Oslo Accords are the war Israel won without fighting
The 30th anniversary of the cursed Oslo Accords is upon us; 13 September 1993 was the day that the Palestine Liberation Organisation signed an agreement with the Israeli enemy, after the First Intifada, the anniversary of the end of which falls on the same day. The uprising shook the...
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Was Gamal Abdel Nasser aware that his son-in-law was an Israeli spy? Part 2
To answer the question posed in yesterday’s article — Was Gamal Abdel Nasser aware that his son-in-law was an Israeli spy? — we have to look at Ashraf Marwan’s character. He was very ambiguous and was surrounded by much controversy. It is frustrating to pose questions and find several...
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Was Gamal Abdel Nasser aware that his son-in-law was an Israeli spy?
Israel’s Mossad spy agency published a book recently that includes historical documents and a photograph that it claims is of Ashraf Marwan, the son-in-law of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Marwan is pictured with a Mossad officer, “Dobby”, suggesting that he was the most important spy for...
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Libya and the scandalous steps towards normalisation
It is unfortunate, even shameful, that the Arab rulers live in the illusion of the Zionists, that they are the protectors of their thrones and their lifeline to reach the heart of America in order to please it, so they strive to gain the honour of the Zionists’ approval...
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The killing of ‘Putin's cook’ will expose more about the power struggle in Moscow
The commander of the Russian Wagner mercenary militia, Yevgeny Prigozhin, rebelled against his master Vladimir Putin in June, and was able to control large parts of Russia on the border with Ukraine during his march towards Moscow. This was his protest against the way that the ministry of defence...
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Will Qatar’s mediation resolve the crisis between Algeria and Morocco?
Qatar is becoming the go-to mediator these days. The US entrusted it with negotiations with Afghanistan’s Taliban movement, and relied on Qatar to secure the departure of American troops from the country. It has also mediated between the US and Iran in complete secrecy until a settlement was reached;...
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Rabaa has reached its 10th year
The Rabaa and Al-Nahda square massacres are still stuck in my mind, and my heart refuses to let them go. It is as if time stopped there. This event lives in my mind, with vivid pictures of the day. On occasions I speak to the memories and my body...
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Parts of Africa are switching from obedience to France, to obedience to Russia
In my previous article, I mentioned the military coups in the Arab region, which are a plague. They were not done for the sake of God and the homeland, but rather for the sake of America and its interests and influence in the region. America came up with the...
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Coups in the Middle East generally have America’s blessing
With the end of World War Two and the victory of the allies led by the US, it was only natural for it to assume the leadership of the “free world”, inherit the mantle of the British Empire and dominate Britain’s former colonies in the Middle East. It managed...
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Egypt’s 1952 coup changed the shape of the Arab world
Egypt has just celebrated the 71st anniversary of the coup of 23 July, 1952; or revolution, call it what you will. It is generally agreed that this changed the shape of the Arab world as well as the shape of the regime in Egypt, for the better or for...
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Will the Cairo Summit resolve the Sudan crisis?
There is no doubt that the war in Sudan affects neighbouring countries and the rest of the region, perhaps by spreading even more chaos. As such, the summit of Sudan’s neighbouring countries held in Cairo last week was important. It followed the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) summit in...
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Relations have resumed between Egypt and Turkiye
According to Winston Churchill speaking after World War Two, history teaches us that there are no lasting friends and no lasting enemies, only lasting interests. In other words, in politics you have to be pragmatic. That is what “realpolitik” is all about. Egypt and Turkiye haven’t gained much from...
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Freedom of speech is used in the West to cover attacks against Muslims
The burning of a copy of the Holy Qur’an in front of the Grand Mosque in Stockholm was not the first such incident in Sweden and it is unlikely to be the last. In January, for example, a Dutch man burned a copy of the Holy Book in front...
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Jenin tells the story of Palestine
Jenin refugee camp is just one kilometre square, but is home to 12,000 Palestinians. It lies seventy kilometres north of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, and very close to the part of Palestine occupied since 1948 which now forms the occupation state. The people of Jenin have sacrificed...
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Lebanon is without a president or government
The Lebanese parliament has failed, for the twelfth time, to elect a president for the republic, a position that has remained vacant since Michel Aoun’s term ended last October and he left Baabda Palace. The Hezbollah state-within-a-state that rules Lebanon wants to impose a figurehead president who will allow...
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Wounded Syria remains in the embrace of a butcher
The butcher Bashar Al-Assad has duly taken his seat at the Arab League, which has been vacant for the past twelve years. He delivered a sterile and empty speech at last month’s summit in Saudi Arabia, proclaiming his triumph over the free Syrian people. News of his ongoing crimes...
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It took just one Egyptian border guard to boost the nation amid normalisation with Israel
Today marks the 56th anniversary of the start of the 1967 Six Day War, and the terrible defeat of the Arabs by Israel. The Zionist enemy occupied Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights in Syria, and the West Bank and East Jerusalem in Palestine, with the latter including Al-Aqsa...
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Erdogan defeated all the hyenas on earth
These were not the US elections that the entire world follows closely, that dominate the international media and that people around the world stay up late to learn the results to see who will rule the US and determine the course of the world during their presidency. This time,...
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Bringing Assad back into the League of Shame does nothing for Arab unity
We no longer expect to see or hear anything from the moribund organisation that doesn’t lift a finger to help the people it is supposed to represent, despite the numerous calamities afflicting them across the region. I refer, of course, to the League of Arab States, which is forever...
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We will not commemorate the 75th Nakba with tears, but with the strength of resistance
The 75th anniversary of the Nakba of all Arabs and Muslims, not just Palestine, is upon us. It is the catastrophe of the entire Islamic nation that began in 1948 and its consequences continue to this day. We remember that day, on 14 May 1948, on which the hearts...
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Khader Adnan was a nation standing on his own
Khader Adnan remained, until his last breath, standing tall like Palestine; like the hills of Nablus; like the mountains of Andalusia. He was a brave man, but he was a nation standing on his own. We felt shame in the face of his steadfastness against the enemy of the...
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Sudan’s people are caught between the anvil of the army and the hammer of the RSF: Part Two
Sudan has witnessed many military coups since independence. The generals have been in power for more than 58 years in total, almost 90 per cent of its years as an independent state. Military rule has been interspersed by transitional periods between the military and short-lived sovereignty councils for periods...
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Sudan’s people are caught between the anvil of the army and the hammer of the RSF
The fighting between the Sudanese army led by Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Chairman of the Sovereignty Council and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, Vice President of the Sovereignty Council, is no surprise. Events since Al-Burhan...