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Items by Gilbert Achkar
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Joe Biden’s crime against humanity
Ever since he announced his decision not to stand for a second presidential term, Joe Biden has become a “lame duck”, an elected official who has reached the final months in office with nothing to plan for or look forward to. His influence is now limited, as everybody knows...
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What is behind the ongoing conflict between Biden and Netanyahu?
If further proof of the limits of traditional “representative democracy” is needed, the Israeli political scene is a prime example. Although Operation Al-Aqsa Flood turned the Israeli political climate to the disadvantage of Benjamin Netanyahu and the ruling bloc that he formed with the Zionist far right at the...
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Is the American administration’s position a crime, stupidity or what?
US President, Joe Biden, has exceeded all expectations regarding his mismanagement of American foreign policy. The truth is that expectations were very low, in the first place, given his very long political record (he became a member of the Senate fifty years ago!) that is filled with positions supporting...
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Use the oil weapon if you really want to help the people of Gaza
It is really just pretence, nothing more. How else can we describe what the Arab countries have done, so far, in solidarity with the people of Palestine, and the people of Gaza, in particular, in their new plight that far exceeds everything that has befallen them in the history...
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Exposing the plan to complete the Nakba
Something has been recently revealed that fully confirms what we have been warning about since 7 October, which is that the Zionist right-wing will seize the opportunity of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood to try to implement its old dream of displacing most of the Palestinian population from the territories occupied...
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Najla El-Mangoush is a scapegoat
Sacrifice of scapegoats is one of the oldest customs and methods of governance. It is common to see the primary person responsible for any grave mistake or action that provokes popular discontent, trying to deflect responsibility from themselves by blaming their subordinates, regardless of the different ranks. The head...
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The Syrians in Turkiye are between a rock and a hard place
The Turkish election scene is truly disgusting, a scene in which the Syrian refugees have become a scapegoat and the subject of fierce bidding by various parties. Recent days have witnessed a peak in this regard, reflecting the outcome of the first round of the presidential elections that took...
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From cubs to lions: towards a new Palestinian Intifada
The Palestinian Authority has long since lost what limited patriotism it might have had by virtue of the circumstances of its establishment within the framework of an agreement with the actual authority in occupation Palestine: the Zionist state. It lost even its repressive prestige, as the Palestinian people, especially...
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Russia and Iran are accelerating their project to rival the Suez Canal
Naturally, one of the consequences of the sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia is to stimulate the latter’s search for ways to bypass the restrictions. Since the actions taken by Western countries to punish Russia for its annexation of Crimea and its first intervention in the Donbass region...
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What is behind Bashar Al-Assad’s visit to Tehran?
The President of the Syrian regime, Bashar Al-Assad, paid a surprise visit to Tehran last Sunday and, adding to its surprising nature, is the fact that he had rarely dared to leave his country since the popular uprising against his regime began in 2011. His first visit outside Syria,...
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Abu Dhabi is the spearhead of regional reactionism
From the middle of the 20th century until the first decade of the 21st, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was the main fortress of Arab reactionism. This was due to the size of the Kingdom, its location in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula, its custodianship over the Muslim...
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The reactionary alliance between Moscow, Abu Dhabi and Cairo
Moscow has gone from supporting progressive regimes in the Arab world, most of which were dictatorships — as was the Soviet Union — before the regimes lost their progressive character in the 1970s; to supporting reactionary regimes, most of which are permanently authoritarian. The most dangerous result of this...
