Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Mustafa Fetouri is a Libyan academic and freelance journalist. He is a recipient of the EU’s Freedom of the Press prize.
Items by Dr Mustafa Fetouri
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- November 7, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Israel's US-backed long war against the United Nations
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted its Resolution 69 on 4 May, 1949 recommending that the UN General Assembly (UNGA) admit Israel as a member state. Interestingly enough, paragraph 1 of the Resolution reads: the Council “Decides in its judgement that Israel is a peace-loving State and is...
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- October 31, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Israel forced the world to create UNRWA; now it wants UNRWA dead
At last, Israel took the decision it has been threatening for a long time: declare UNRWA an illegal entity, denying it the right to work from any territories under its control, including occupied lands in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Simply said, Israeli Knesset just banned the organisation...
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- October 24, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Despite being dead for 13 years, Gaddafi is still a commanding figure in Libya
20 October, 2024 marks 13 years since the late Libyan leader, Muammer Gaddafi, was murdered as he tried to leave Sirte, his home town on the Mediterranean coast, where he made his last stand against the NATO-supported rebels. When he arrived there, Sirte was already under intense attack by...
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- October 17, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Now that the historical leadership of Hezbollah is gone, will the Party go, too?
Over the last three months, starting last July, Israel succeeded in targeting the top Hezbollah leadership in Lebanon through a series of well coordinated and targeted assassinations that wiped out the entire organisations’ founding leaders. By 1 October, it managed to kill the Islamic Resistance’s political and military commander,...
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- October 10, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Is Iran about to let go of its regional allies, from Yemen to Lebanon? Could it actually do that?
Social media is rife with conspiracy theories focused on how Iran sold out its allies, from the late Ismail Haniyeh to the late Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Similar theories also surround the exploding pagers and wireless devices that killed and injured thousands in Lebanon. In both cases, it all comes down...
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- October 3, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Madrid Peace Conference, Take 2: challenging the failed US Middle East policy
On 13 September, Madrid hosted a group of Muslim and European nations, aimed at reviving the long-since-forgotten Middle East peace process. This time, though, what Spain and other European countries, including the EU itself want is a little different from what the United States wants, despite both sides agreeing...
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- September 26, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
The Contact Group for Gaza: Arab-Muslim hypocrisy at its finest
Early last November, barely a month after the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza had started, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia convened an extraordinary joint summit that brought together heads of states and government of both the League of Arab States (LAS) and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) aiming...
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- September 19, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
No war is coming to Libya and here is why
On 9 August, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) published a statement warning of a potential war in the country. The Mission, mediating reconciliation efforts in the country, pointed out that “recent mobilization of forces in various parts of Libya, particularly in the southern and western regions”...
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- September 12, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Libya in light of Egypt-Turkiye rapprochement
With the arrival of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in Ankara, on 4 September, for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the long feud between the two regional powers appears to have ended on good terms. For years, both men have been trading barbs against each other, until relations...
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- September 5, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Money in US elections: pro-Israel money corrupting the entire system
“Strengthening bipartisan support for the US-Israel relationship”: this is how the American-Israeli Affairs Public Committee (AIPAC) on X, former Twitter, profiles itself, giving the impression that it is only a simple group of lobbyists, among thousands of others, in a land where lobbying for whatever cause is legal, welcomed...
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- August 29, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Libya’s Central Bank crisis exposes lack of legitimacy and strong foreign meddling hampering Libya’s progress
Crises in Libya multiply, sometimes, at a daunting speed, making tracking and analysing them a difficult task even for pundits and professional commentators. In many cases, it takes the most trivial of triggers to engulf the country, particularly the capital, Tripoli, in a spiralling crisis usually involving guns and...
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- August 22, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Memories of the fall of Tripoli 13 years ago and the striking similarities to what is going on today
13 years ago, on 20 August, 2011, the fall of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, began. It was not a swift end to the battle for the capital and the seat of power in a country already at war with itself. It was not slow, either. Rebels fighting under the...
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- August 15, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
It is time for Arabs to stop blaming Hamas for the genocide in Gaza. Blame yourselves, instead
The overwhelming majority of ordinary Arabs and Muslims support and sympathise with the Palestinian people. They usually express this support and show such sympathy through their use of words in referring to Hamas and other resistance groups fighting Israel. They commonly call them heroes, courageous men and, when they...
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- August 8, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Trans-Mediterranean Migration Forum in Tripoli: too much talk but little action
Early last month, the Tripoli-based government hosted the Trans-Mediterranean Migration Forum (TMMF), with the participation of 16 African and European states and 12 international and regional organisations, including the United Nations mission in Libya. Among the top leaders taking part were the Chadian President, Mohamed Idriss Deby, and Italian Prime...
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- August 1, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Turkiye-Syria rapprochement: how Erdogan the dove is trying to correct his mistakes as a hawk
“… For the sake of peace for the people, the country and the region, finally step down.” That was Turkiye’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, back in November 2011 calling on Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, to resign. Then, the Syrian bloodshed had just started, while Damascus responded with brutal...
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- July 25, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
What could another four years of Trump mean for the Middle East?
Right after the June US presidential debate, many observers of American politics were doubtful if Joe Biden would be the Democratic nominee to face Donald Trump in the 5 November election. By early July, that doubt turned into almost certainty that Biden would have to be replaced as the...
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- July 18, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Deepening Moroccan-Israeli military ties: who is the enemy?
News reports have it that Morocco has signed a $1 billion to buy an Israeli spy satellite to replace its two old satellites built by the joint European-owned Airbus and the French-owned Thales satellites. This latest deal has been shrouded in secrecy because it concerns building a spy satellite...
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- July 11, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
The Arab League after Gaza genocide: reform or die
No one can deny the fact that the Al-Aqsa Flood operation of 7 October, 2023, has changed almost everything in the region, making it a pivotal and turning point for the Middle East and how it should be handled by world powers. After nearly nine months of Israeli genocide in...
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- July 4, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
The US's long war on the international justice system and its mechanism
Responding to the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) back in 2002, the United States Congress passed what became publicly known as The Hague Invasion Act, literally authorising the president of the US to invade The Hague, a Dutch city where the ICC is seated. The Act, formally...
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- June 27, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Free Julian Assange exposes America's hypocrisy regarding press freedom in Gaza
On 20 May this year, two British judges gave Julian Assange another chance to appeal an earlier court decision that he should be extradited to stand trial in the United States. Last May’s ruling turned out to be a turning point in the long saga of WikiLeaks founder Julian...
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- June 20, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Financial ransacking of Libya: will it ever end?
Libya scores 170 out of 180 countries listed in the international Corruption Perceptions Index, a measurement of corruption around the world published by Transparency International, an anti- corruption, non-governmental advocacy group. To be at number 170 on the list of 180 countries surveyed is enough to shame any politician...
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- June 13, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Israel has finally made anti-Semitism an empty slogan
Many people in the Global South think Israel has hijacked the Holocaust and over-politicised it for its own political purposes since its creation in 1948. People in the South do not really share the burden of guilt over what Christian Europeans did to the Jewish people and their collaborators...
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- June 6, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
Libya’s ‘five devils’ are ready to frustrate the newly designated UN acting mediator
The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Libya (SRSG), Abdoulaye Bathily, resigned his position on 16 April, some 18 months after he took up the near-impossible task of mediating the Libyan crisis. Mr. Bathily was SRSG number nine since the UN got into the Libyan mess it helped create back...
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- May 30, 2024 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
The meaning of the three EU countries’ recognition of the Palestinian State
Before the latest recognition of the Palestinian State by three European Union countries, a total of 143 countries have already done so. Now that Ireland, Norway and Spain have followed suit, that total reaches 145 countries out of 193 countries that are members of the United Nations. This is...