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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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The shameful intelligence leaks confirmed what we already knew
We did not need media leaks to reveal that an officer in Egypt’s intelligence agency, Captain Ashraf El-Kholi, was telling presenters on Egyptian TV channels what they should say about Donald Trump’s announcement concerning Jerusalem Published by the New York Times and broadcast by Egypt’s Mekameleen television station, the...
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On the savage executions in Egypt
The Egyptian government refused to allow 2017 to end in peace without shedding the blood of Egyptians. Therefore, it carried out the death sentence against 15 innocent citizens tried before a military court. Cases were fabricated against them, but we know they are innocent for the simple reason that...
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After our past wounds, should we keep our hopes up?
We are at the end of the current year and there are only a few days left before we are handed over to the new year, with all of the wounds and upsets of the previous year. Unfortunately, there were no victories to hand over to the new year....
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Jerusalem is lost only in the eyes of the insolent
The Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide in Egypt, Dr Mohamed Badie, said in court, “Palestine is our primary cause. Release us and we will liberate Jerusalem and Palestine.” The judge’s reply to him, “Jerusalem is lost and you are terrorists,” expressed the government he represents. This exchange shows how Egypt’s...
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Thirty years in the company of Hamas
Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, which was created from the womb of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. It was founded, among others, by Shaikh Ahmed Yassin, and all of its leaders and members were also with the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas...
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The deal of the century: Greater Israel
The year 2017 refused to end before the 100th anniversary of the cursed Balfour Declaration was crowned with Trump’s cursed declaration, recognising Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel and promising to move the American embassy to the city. This decision is no less of a disaster than the...
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Down with all the concession treaties!
All of the peace treaties between Israel and the Arab countries, such as Camp David, Wadi Araba, and the Oslo Accords, came crashing down with US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and signing off on moving the American embassy to Jerusalem. His announcement...
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Did the curtain fall on Shafiq’s fantasia?
Everything in Egypt has become absurd, making absurdity the main characteristic of the post-2013 coup phase. Things are in disarray, including the minds of people, and we are hearing things that are beyond logic and reason being said and believed by the Egyptian people, who have been brainwashed and...
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The assassination of Egypt’s Nile
Just as thousands of Egyptians have been assassinated in cold blood and the dreams of a nation that dreamed of freedom, dignity, justice and equality were buried alive, along with the first true democratic experience occurring in Egypt’s history; just as a coup was staged against the elected President...
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Sisi’s terrorist organisation
Last Friday was a sad day for Egypt, unlike any other. The country has never experienced such incidents like those we hear about in Iraq and Syria, where mosques are bombed during prayers. The state media has always told us, “At least we aren’t like Syria and Iraq,” but...
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The series of the arrogant prince
There is no doubt that the ambitious and arrogant Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, has entertained the world with an action series, similar to a Mexican soap opera, the first episode of which began with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef stepping down from his position....
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Between the Balfour Declaration and Trump’s declaration
November 2, 1917 was an ill-omened day in the history of the Arab and Muslim nation. It is the day that Arthur James Balfour sent a letter to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, a leader of the World Zionist Movement, in which he stated the British government’s support for the...
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Egypt is demeaned by its own president
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi went to France using three Rafale fighter jets, the French aircraft that he bought last year after the government in Paris had been looking for a buyer for more than ten years, and every country had refused. France was unable to sell the planes until Sisi...
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The security massacre
There is no doubt that 20/10/2017 is a sad day that will remain engraved in the public Egyptian memory and is a black day in the history of the police in particular. It is the day that the crème de la crème of the police were betrayed. On this...
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The night Egypt fell
The election of the UNESCO Director General this time around was unlike any of the previous elections, i.e. a legal and democratic measure to appoint someone to the position. It was more like a battle in the media and between diplomats that was unflattering for Egypt, in which it...
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The October War: between victory and defeat
Forty-four years have passed since the October War when the army passed through the fortified Bar Lev Line, which many claimed that even the napalm bombs could not bring down. Our courageous soldiers brought this down with water hoses and were able to breach the wall within 6 hours....
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Should we bid Hamas farewell?
I will not criticise Hamas or our people in the Gaza Strip any further. They bore what no other humans could, including three wars in ten years waged by Israel and a suffocating economic siege imposed by the Israeli enemy and their brothers in Egypt who control the Rafah...
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The Emad Gad bomb
During Al-Sisi’s latest visit to the US he had a shameful meeting with Netanyahu, during which he flashed a wide smile that was plastered on the media for everyone to mock. He also made his disgraceful speech at the UN General Assembly in which he said: “I tell the...
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Egypt has a government that fears the dead
Sheikh Mahdi Akef, the former General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, has died after spending over four years in Egyptian prisons since Al-Sisi’s 2013 coup. No charges were ever laid at his door, just like the rest of the political prisoners held by the regime. The government showed no compassion...
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Egypt is the country of contradictions
While Egypt is receiving a senior level Hamas delegation headed by Ismail Haniyeh, head of the movement’s political bureau, Egypt’s legitimate president is being tried on charges of plotting with Hamas. This is after Hamas was accused of being a terrorist organisation, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, and accused...
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Character assassination and murder are the norm in Egypt
The panic has reached its climax in Egypt with the countdown to the upcoming presidential elections, which are scheduled to be held next June. Al-Sisi fears the polls and does not want to hold them. Given his low popularity rating, he wants to avoid asking the oppressed citizens to...
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Two organisations shaking the General’s throne
Two reports by two international organisations condemning Egypt under Al-Sisi’s rule were issued yesterday. These organisations are Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders. In its report, the former accused Egypt of torturing detainees in order to obtain false confessions, accusing police officers of regularly torturing detainees by means...
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The destruction of the Egyptian economy
At a time when they are calling for the encouragement of investments, to the point where the Egyptian investment minister met with a Saudi businessman on his yacht while he was in shorts, in order to present him with investment projects that she begged him to choose from, the...
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America is angry, but what at?
Suddenly, without any warning, the US administration has reduced its level of aid to Egypt and frozen part of it. This aid has been sent to Egypt every year since the peace treaty was signed with Israel in 1979, stopping only when Obama froze it for a few months...
