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Items by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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The bloodied Eid in Gaza
“In what state did you come Eid? Are things the same or is there anything new?” This is how the poet Abu Al-Tayeb Al-Mutanabbi began his poem hundreds of years ago. It still rings true, especially given these dark days and painful circumstances of the brutal Zionist aggression against...
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Why didn’t the US use its veto against the UN Security Council ceasefire resolution?
While I acknowledge that UN Security Council Resolution 2728 calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip came six months too late, there were certainly political factors that prevented such a resolution being agreed any earlier. I appreciate that all of the local, regional and international parties connected to...
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Will Iraq regain its glory?
These days mark the 21st anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, with its sad outcome, its harsh defeats, its estrangement from its Arab surroundings (that conspired against it) and it being, instead, embraced by Iran. Twenty-one lean years have destroyed the civilisation of an ancient country that was...
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As the revolution in Syria enters its 14th year, free Syrians are waiting for the spark to reignite
The Syrian revolution has just entered its fourteenth year. The Arab Spring revolutions swept across the Arab world and broke out in Syria on 15 March, 2011. Had it not been for Russia’s intervention, the Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad would have been overthrown. He preferred Syria to fall into...
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Palestine Land Day 2024 will have a very different feel about it
We are approaching the 48th commemoration of Palestine Land Day, and there is no doubt that 30 March will have very different feel about it this year, with the Palestinians in Gaza being killed and starved in defence of their land against the brutal Zionist military offensive over almost...
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Gaza in Ramadan
There is no doubt that every Muslim with a sound heart and pure soul is experiencing two conflicting feelings upon entering the month of Ramadan this year: a feeling of innate joy in welcoming this holy month, which the Islamic nation eagerly awaits every year and receives with decorations,...
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These airdrops of humanitarian aid are hypocrisy in action
In order to hide the shame of complicity in Israel’s destruction of Gaza, the killing and starvation of the Palestinian people, and to save face in front of the world, airdrops have been used to parachute humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave. Jordan’s King Abdullah II started this as...
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The lie of the Palestinian state
The more that the pressure on the leaders of the Zionist state has intensified, the more that its friends in the West have promised to establish a Palestinian state in order to end the 76-year conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians and stabilise the Middle East. Such “promises”,...
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The displacement plan is still present, but …
Reuters news agency and the American channel, CNN, published a report, supported by satellite images, about what is happening on the Egyptian Rafah border, in what was said to be a buffer zone with an area of 20 square kilometres near the border. Equipped tents are being built in...
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The victor gets to set the conditions for peace
When a war comes to its conclusion, the two parties generally sit at the negotiating table, either face to face or through intermediaries, to thrash out the terms of the ceasefire. The victor usually speaks first, setting out their terms and conditions. The vanquished generally has no option but...
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Zionist attacks against UNRWA are proof of the global war on Gaza
It was no surprise to seer the US and its Western allies suspend their funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), as they are all involved in one way or another in the war against the Palestinians in Gaza alongside...
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We did not protect Egypt’s 25 January Revolution, and look where we are now
The thirteenth anniversary of Egypt’s glorious 25 January Revolution passed quietly. The media did not commemorate it, and it was completely absent from the programme schedules. It is no longer called the January Revolution officially, but the “January events”, which are blamed on the deteriorating economic conditions in the...
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Legitimate resistance is the key to a Palestinian victory
The genocidal Zionist war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has been ongoing for nearly four months without the occupation state achieving any of its stated goals. It has not eliminated Hamas, and has not been able to liberate the Israelis held hostage by the movement. Instead, some...
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South Africa did what the Arab countries should have done, but didn’t
It was not done by a neighbouring Arab country that shares its borders, nor an Islamic country that belongs to the same religion. Rather, it was done by a country thousands of kilometres away. It was the people of South Africa who were horrified by the bloodshed in the...
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Arouri’s assassination was not an Israeli victory; it confirmed its defeat
The Zionist state of Israel has been unable to present its people with any victory on the battlefield that they can celebrate with their flags and be proud of their supposedly invincible army. There is no military credibility in killing innocent civilians, mainly children and women. The so-called Israel...
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A purely Palestinian year
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October is the most important event, not only in the year 2023, but it is the most important since the October War of 1973, i.e., half a century ago. It is the earthquake that shook the entire world, and shook the ground beneath the...
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Israel shall not achieve in peace what it could not get through war
After more than 80 days of brutal and ferocious war on Gaza Strip, the Zionist entity has not achieved any of the goals it announced before the war. It hasn’t been able to eliminate Hamas, nor has it been able to free Israeli prisoners. Rather, it killed three of...
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A night on which the Zionists wept
When the Shujaya neighbourhood in Gaza was stormed last week, it was a very dark night, especially for the Zionist enemies. The moon, though, shone brightly in the sky above the besieged Palestinian territory, a territory filled with pride and dignity. It was a night on which the Arab...
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You’ve reached a dead end
The late Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani wrote a famous poem titled “The Fortune Teller” sung by the late singer Abdel Halim Hafez. He says at the end of it, “your grief will grow until it becomes a tree and someday, oh my son, you will return defeated, heart-broken, and...
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Gaza is the new Hiroshima but the world stands and watches
As soon as the truce ended, which they called a “humanitarian truce” although they know nothing about humanity, they resumed their barbaric bombardment on the east and south of Gaza with great intensity on the remaining houses, hospitals, places of worship, and vital facilities with the aim of forcing...
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October 7 was a watershed for the occupation, but not the kind that Israel and its allies expected
In the ongoing nightmare of normalisation and the rushing of the Arab tyrants to visit the usurping entity and kiss its rulers’ feet, there is a light among the darkness emanating from the occupied land of Palestine. It is not just any old light. It is the bright light...
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Gaza remains steadfast
The war on the Palestinians in Gaza has entered its 46th day, and resistance against the Zionist enemy remains steadfast. The determination and will to confront the occupation forces boldly and courageously are still there, despite the genocidal destruction of the enclave. Israel’s dirty war has targeted civilian infrastructure...
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Why did the Muslim leaders bother to convene?
After 36 days of criminal Israeli aggression against the Palestinians in Gaza, and what is clearly a “text-book case of genocide”, with more than 11,000 Palestinians killed, residential and government buildings and hospitals destroyed, and farms and fields burned, the leaders of 58 Arab and Islamic countries convened to...
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Gaza may well change the world, not just the region
We are now into the second month of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood carried out by the Islamic Resistance Movement, which shook the occupation state and its allies to the core. Israel is taking its rage out at this humiliation on innocent civilians,...
