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Items by Dr Mohammad Makram Balawi
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Israel leads the region towards a bloody catastrophe
One does not need to be exceptionally intelligent to realise that events will reach their current state on the eve of the assassination of the Palestinian leader and head of the Palestinian resistance, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital, Tehran, while he was participating in the inauguration ceremony of...
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Gaza poses a strategic dilemma for America
The current situation in which America finds itself calls for pity and sorrow. Yes, you read that correctly. This once great power that is supposed to control the world, dictate its decisions and destiny, and play the roles of global policeman, preacher and occasional local thug has become a...
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The Houthis are turning the tables on everyone
The escalating attacks on ships in the Arabian Sea and the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait by the Houthi movement in Yemen pose a real threat to the Israeli, Western and American economies. The Red Sea is one of the world’s busiest shipping routes for oil and gas. Most of the...
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Will colonialism return through the war on Gaza?
To act in good faith towards the West and believe their claims is the epitome of ignorance. The world has witnessed, for over three centuries, the Western colonial powers and their bloody history based on plundering, bloodshed and contempt for others. Their presence in the region today cannot be...
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The Israeli ‘curse of the eighth decade’ could have ramifications across the Middle East
What is happening in the Mediterranean has brought back bad memories in Arab minds. America, with the help of Britain, France and Germany, the historical enemies of Arabs, has formed a Western coalition to back Israel. Huge armies have been brought to the region under the pretext of facing...
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The US is complicit in Israel’s genocide, but Biden and Blinken ‘sympathise’ with the children it kills
Throughout the Israeli bombardment of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the US has taken a staunchly pro-Israel stance and provided extensive military and diplomatic support. Washington has authorised the sale to Israel of cutting-edge F-35 fighter jets, considered the most advanced in the world, and they have been...
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Did Israel create Hamas?
Amidst the Israeli attacks witnessed in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s declaration of a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, with its stated objectives being of eliminating the Hamas Movement and targeting Hamas leaders, both military and political, including the assassination of some of its high-ranking members, such as...
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Gaza’s black hole as it swallows the Middle East
Is the United States trying to impose a new Monroe Doctrine on the Middle East and North Africa? The US has brought a large naval force to the region and formed an unprecedented alliance of countries, raising questions about this massive military gathering and causing regional and international parties...
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War in Gaza: a geopolitical perspective
The geopolitical landscape in West Asia is currently undergoing significant shifts and developments that extend beyond the confines of specific regional conflicts. In this paper, I will explore the various factors and dynamics at play, shedding light on the broader implications and potential consequences of these events. The presence of...
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Bombing Gaza Hospital - or international credibility?
On Tuesday night, the Israeli occupation forces committed a heinous massacre that will be recorded in Palestinian history. The occupying forces targeted innocent Palestinians in the Baptist Hospital in Gaza, resulting in the death of more than 500 Palestinians, possibly reaching up to 1,000 due to the presence of...
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My friend, Saeed Dahshan, martyred by Israel
This morning, I lost one of my dearest friends, Dr. Said Dahshan, as a result of a crazy Israeli airstrike on the neighbourhood where he lived in the Gaza Strip. The airstrike claimed his life, as well as the lives of his mother, his wife, his son, his two...
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Stop the collective punishment and end the siege of Gaza now
The 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) and the Zionist terror gangs’ occupation of Palestine as well as the ethnic cleansing of its people marked the beginning of many tragedies for the Palestinians. Since then, the occupation state of Israel has inflicted a great deal of suffering on the Palestinians, with the...
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Saudi-Israel normalisation in exchange for nuclear arsenal?
Since Benjamin Netanyahu assumed the position of prime minister of the new Israeli government, US President Joe Biden has refrained from inviting him to visit the White House due to tensions between the two following the rise of the far-right religious government in Israel that seeks to change the...
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Oslo Accords: ‘the big illusion and the false dream’
Every time the anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords between the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Israeli occupation – officially known as the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, on 13 September, 1993 – is mentioned, the historical and political context in which the agreement...
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Netanyahu’s delight at the IMEC project is probably premature
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged recently to celebrate the announcement by US President Joe Biden during the G20 summit in New Delhi, about the launch of the economic corridor project to connect India to the Middle East and Europe: the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), as it is...
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Normalisation with Israel is political suicide
The revelation by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the end of August about a secret meeting between Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his Libyan counterpart Najla Al-Mangoush in Rome has sparked strong internal and external reactions despite the absence of diplomatic relations between the two parties....
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Same criminals different mask: 54 years since the arson attack on Al-Aqsa
Since the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank in 1967, which is considered by many Zionists as the heartland of the Jewish world, the Israeli occupation authorities started concerted efforts to alter the character of Jerusalem, particularly its cherished Al-Aqsa Mosque. From the early days of the Occupation, the...
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Israel’s red cow will blow up the region
A report by the Hebrew Channel 12 a few days ago highlighted the repercussions of the rise of religious Zionism in Israel, its efforts to turn it into an extremist Jewish religious state, and the increasing pace of preparations for the construction of the alleged temple by the current...
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Fierce Judaisation: The burial of the remains of Palestine
Israel is witnessing a judicial coup, economic instability, a state of security and military lawlessness that has reached the stage of exhausting thousands of soldiers, pilots and intelligence cadres from performing military service, the decline of credit halving, the flight of high-tech companies and other manifestations and economic repercussions، But...
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Fuelling Palestinian communal violence in Israel is a policy for displacement
The Palestinian community within what is known today as the state of Israel was devastated on 8 June by a heinous crime in Nazareth that claimed the lives of five innocent people, including children. Unfortunately, this was not the first time that an organised criminal gang, many of which...
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Israel is in a downward spiral of self-destruction
The sight of Israeli police storming the holy mosque of Al-Aqsa with their boots and batons, beating worshippers amid clouds of tear gas, was appalling. Hundreds of Palestinians were bound and driven away like cattle in the most inhumane way. Yes, the holy month of Ramadan is here and what...
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With Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich in charge, Israel doesn’t need enemies
The situation in Israel is bleak. Benjamin Netanyahu ousted his defence minister who warned of an armed forces mutiny in the making. Demonstrations and strikes happen daily, with banks, the health service, labour unions, airports and seaports all paralysed. The Israeli prime minister had no option but to step...
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Does the Saudi-Iran agreement reflect the change in China’s foreign policy?
The agreement signed between Saudi Arabia and Iran under Chinese auspices on 6 March aroused much interest in the Arab world, the Middle East and the world in general. It came after a diplomatic break between the two countries in 2016, with a statement that confirmed: “It is a...
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The Zionist state and Zionist militancy
Where and when does history begin? And who decides? This is a crucial point when it comes to the conflict in Palestine due to the conflicting narratives. The mainstream media, for example, opt for the narrative in which “a Palestinian gunman shot two Israeli brothers in the Palestinian village...