Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
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- February 8, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
A blow to the counter-revolutions axis
The great surprise occurred in Libya, and the counter-revolution was dealt a painful blow. Its men were defeated in the Libyan elections, which were held in Geneva under the auspices of the UN, and contrary to all expectations, the list of Aguila Saleh, Libyan parliament speaker close to General...
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- February 2, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Palestine and the election game (Part 3)
Read part 1 here and part 2 here There is no doubt that Hamas has a major dilemma, but the solution does not involve escaping by playing the last card in its hand. If its participation in the 2006 election was a big mistake, then participating in the upcoming elections is...
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- February 1, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Palestine and the election game (Part 2)
Read part 1 here After the terrible defeat of the Six-Day War in June 1967, the Egyptians woke from the shock and, typically, mocked the tragedy in their jokes. They did this as a release for their anger. One well-known humorous incident at the time saw broadcaster Amal Fahmy interviewing King...
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- January 26, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Palestine and the election game (Part 1)
Read part 2 here The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas was adamant that he was cancelling security coordination with the occupation state, pulling out of the Oslo Accords and returning to national struggle and resistance to liberate Palestine. Then Joe Biden became the likely winner of the US...
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- January 18, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Trump's parting gift to Israel
Donald Trump has used his four years as US president to demonstrate his deep commitment to the Zionist state of Israel. He has striven to enable Israel to take control of occupied Palestine with an iron grip, and given it the upper hand in the region. No other US...
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- January 11, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Did Trump burn himself or was it the deep state?
There is no doubt that the storming of the Capitol Building in Washington DC by supporters of President Donald Trump, which was witnessed live across the world, was unprecedented in the most powerful country in the world. The United States of America is a country of institutions, law and...
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- January 4, 2021 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
If Israel wasn’t there, the US would have to invent it to protect its interests
The Arab rulers are holding their breath, apprehensive of the day that Joe Biden arrives in the White House to the extent that they probably wish that 20 January never comes or a major incident delays or even blocks the US President-elect from taking office. Hence, their pet journalists...
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- December 29, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
The normalisation plague is deadlier than the Covid-19 pandemic
The year 2020 is almost history, but its incidents and events are not only likely to continue, but also escalate. There are implications regionally and internationally. There is still no solution for the conflict in Libya, for example. Negotiations have stalled, despite the ceasefire, and coup leader Khalifa Haftar has...
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- December 21, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
It is only a decade since the Arab Spring, but feels much longer
Ten years have passed since the outbreak of Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution, after Mohamed Bouazizi, a struggling young man who sold vegetables from his street cart, set himself on fire in protest at police injustice under the tyrannical regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The people rose up in...
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- December 14, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
It’s ironic that the head of Al-Quds Committee has normalised links with Jerusalem’s occupier
As Arab rulers continue to rush towards Israel and cosy up to its leaders, the occupation state continues to usurp the Arab land of Palestine. Following the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan, King Mohammed VI of Morocco is jumping on the normalisation bandwagon driven by Donald Trump, who wants to...
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- December 7, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Conflict and reconciliation to order should be off the agenda
On 5 June 2017, the 50th anniversary of the ill-fated 1967 Six Day War, Saudi Arabia announced that it was severing ties with Qatar. A few minutes later, the UAE did the same, followed by Bahrain and then Egypt. These four countries announced a boycott and siege against Qatar...
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- November 30, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
You cannot separate Bin Salman’s betrayal from Bin Ramadan’s
Uncle Sam always exposes his agents, pulling them into his bed in the dark of night, then exposing them in the bright light of day. That is the nature of the dirty tricks played by shadowy government agencies in Washington and their allies. Hence, it was no great surprise that...
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- November 24, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Abbas’ humiliating climb down was made on Palestinian ‘Independence Day’
It was no surprise to see the Palestinian Authority return to its security coordination with the Israeli occupation forces. What was surprising, though, was that some people were surprised that the PA president, whose term of office ended years ago, escalated his threats to end security coordination with Israel,...
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- November 16, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Incomplete victory for Azerbaijan, crushing defeat for Armenia, big win for Russia
There is no doubt that Russia under Vladimir Putin is not the weak state that it was after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The Russian president wants to restore Russia to the glory of the USSR and its geopolitical position. Its military intervention in Ukraine, through which it...
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- November 9, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
The elections in America and the voters in the Arab world
Finally, Joe Biden was declared the president-elect of the United States of America, making him the 46th president in its history, since George Washington in 1789. This announcement was made after an exciting race that witnessed the highest participation rate in more than a century, in which President Donald...
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- November 2, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Macron's real crisis has more to do with French values than Islam (Part 2)
There is no doubt that Emmanuel Macron is in a crisis with his racist self, first and foremost, followed by a crisis with his people. The former is deep rooted. When he first stood for the presidency he was forced to address French Muslims and cosy up to them...
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- October 26, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Macron's real crisis has more to do with French values than Islam
Emmanuel Macron’s fierce campaign against Islam and Muslims has not come out of nowhere. It is the product of racism rooted deep within the French psyche. It is a crisis of French values not of Islam. As a supposedly secular state, France does not want to recognise Islam as a...
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- October 19, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
If Berri’s announcement about negotiations with Israel isn’t normalisation, what is it?
Suddenly and without prior notice, Nabih Berri announced recently that Lebanon and Israel have reached an agreement under American auspices to start talks about disputed borders. The Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament is also the head of the Amal Movement, which raises the flag of resistance against the Zionist...
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- October 12, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Saudi’s Bandar Bin Sultan shouldn’t bank on shaving his beard to celebrate Zionist victory
On the eve of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, the Saudi Ambassador to Washington, reportedly sat on the arm of the chair on which US President George W Bush was sitting and said, “I will only shave my beard after you strike Iraq.”...
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- October 5, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
It’s time to tear up the Oslo Accords
No sane person can refuse to consider reconciliation between conflicting parties, especially if they are from the same land. It is hard to believe that reconciliation is possible between two parties heading in the opposite direction, even if they prayed for the party going against history, geography and religion...
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- September 24, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Security coordination with Israel and normalisation are two sides of the same coin
The statements made by Palestinian Authority officials are laughable rather than provocative. They are immoral and fraudulent, and falsify the facts. Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki, for example, has announced that the state of Palestine has quit its revolving chairmanship of the Arab League in protest at its position on...
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- September 21, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
The League of Shame (Part 2)
The rejection of the Palestinian draft resolution by the Arab League was not a self-inflicted coup de grâce, but rather the last nail in its coffin; the league has been clinically dead for many years. It is revived whenever ordered by its master in the White House, as happened...
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- September 14, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
The League of Shame, part 1
I did not expect a courageous response from the so-called Arab league regarding the UAE-Israel normalisation agreement, because the dead cannot talk, and the Arab League is basically dead and buried after rejecting the draft Palestinian resolution to condemn the deal. It did so despite the fact that such...
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- September 7, 2020 Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh
Macron and the weak return of French colonialists
French colonialists have returned to Lebanon, with President Emmanuel Macron wanting to restore the colonial “glory” of his predecessors in the region who tortured the people and looted their wealth and resources. Macron went to Lebanon last month as a new conqueror, on the centenary of the establishment of...