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Dr Mohammed Al-Misfer

 

Items by Dr Mohammed Al-Misfer

  • Will the reconciliation of the Gulf governments lead to better relations with their own citizens?

    The start of the New Year has been good for us in the Gulf. The cloud of estrangement is about to disappear, and the skies, land and sea have opened for free movement to and from Qatar. The blockade imposed on the state in June 2017 has been lifted,...

  • Normalisation with Israel and the Palestinian response

    There has been a breach in the Arab Front in favour of Israel against Palestine. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has caused a wide rift in the Gulf for the benefit of Israel, through signing the so-called Peace Treaty between two parties that are not even at war. They...

  • Sudais between ignorance, deception and hypocrisy

    When he first became imam of the Grand Mosque of Makkah, 38 years ago, Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais was the most loved by the people. His recitation of the Quran as he led the night prayers in the Haram would attract those listening. The tapes of his recitations were listened...

  • The winners and losers in the Qatar siege

    It has been a thousand days since Qatar was besieged by its brothers and partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), i.e. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain. There is no fundamental or main reason that can be considered and no satisfactory solutions for all parties. The reasons mentioned are...

  • Mahmoud Abbas: the lost Palestinian leader

    I do not know what is happening in our miserable Arab world. Our beloved Syria is burning and has been destroyed so severely as if by an earthquake at the hands of the Syrian regime’s forces and its allies. The rest of Idlib is awaiting its fate and the...

  • We want a Gulf leader who will make history

    June 5 is an ominous and sad day in modern Arab history that will continue to be so throughout history. On this day in 1967, Israel with direct and indirect American help, invaded three Arab countries (Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) and defeated three armies that were the pillars of...

  • Palestine and King Abdulaziz’s grandchildren

    Some Saudi princes, the sheikhs of Abu Dhabi and the rulers of Bahrain are racing towards Israel, considering it the gate through which to obtain legitimacy for their authority over their people. They also believe that Israel brings them closer to the White House in Washington, which they believe...

  • I urge President Mahmoud Abbas to step down immediately

    I wrote an article that was published in Al-Quds Al-Arabi on 18 June 2001 about the city of Jerusalem. “They conspired against you, Jerusalem, the city of the Arabs of the past and present, the home of Jesus son of Mary, and the destination of Prophet Muhammad during his...

  • Egypt under Arab nationalism and Al-Sisi

    Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Arab nationalist Egypt taught us the concepts of nation and citizenship; the concepts of political freedom; and that international companies exploited our petroleum and mineral resources, as well as our territorial waters, including the Suez Canal, Bab Al-Mandab, the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf...

  • The Kuwaiti-Yemeni talks and the upcoming catastrophe

    The legitimate Yemeni government delegation returned, with serious Qatari mediation, to the talks in Kuwait between the bilateral alliance (Saleh and the Houthis) and the delegation headed by Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdul-Malik al-Mikhlafi. These talks/deliberations have been going for six weeks and they have just gone...

  • The people are slaughtered while their rulers stand and watch

    The Arab nation is witnessing one of the worst phases of its political, military and social life. Sectarianism is tearing apart its social fabric, instilling the roots of hatred amongst the people; Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen are good examples. Meanwhile, ethnicity is intensifying the idea of separation, and...

  • Abbas should accept reality and dissolve the PA

    This is the third week of the third intifada ignited across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. It is spreading and escalating but the Palestinian Authority, under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, is busy playing musical chairs. He still believes that negotiations with Israel are the solution even though...

  • The American whale and Russian bear in the Gulf

    This week, Doha is hosting US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. Their visit is being made after the signing of the nuclear agreement between Iran and the permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) in early July; it was signed...

  • The Palestinian Authority and its political dreams

    The final day of 2014 witnessed an Arab and Palestinian failure at the UN Security Council, which rejected a resolution that called upon the UN to set a specific date for ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land occupied in 1967. After that setback, the PA applied to join...

  • An open letter to the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council

    Your Majesties, Highnesses, and Excellencies, may God bless you. Allow this 70-year-old man to welcome your Majesties, Highnesses and Excellencies in Doha, the capital of love, affection and respect. You have come to Doha today to attend the 35th session of your esteemed summit with your busy agendas and we have...

  • The smell of petrodollars in the Tunisian elections

    Israeli media have reported a meeting in Paris between Tunisian presidential candidate Beji Caïd Essebsi and officials from Gulf States. The meeting is alleged to have focused on ways to isolate the Nahda Party in Tunisia and how to keep the Islamist group from gaining any central positions in...

  • Save the Gaza Strip from conspiracies

    I was surprised last Friday by Palestinian Authority media outlets in Ramallah reporting the 15 bombings near the Fatah headquarters in Gaza and the platform established to mark the tenth anniversary of the assassination of President Yasser Arafat, held on Tuesday. The Fatah leadership held Hamas responsible for the...

  • Egypt, terrorism and Mahmoud Abbas

    I would first like to begin by expressing my deepest condolences to the families of the Egyptian soldiers that were killed in the Sinai Peninsula. I would also like to offer my condolences to the officers of the Egyptian Armed Forces over the death of their fellow officers following...