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Items by Motasem A Dalloul
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End Israel’s brutal military occupation, and legitimate resistance won’t be necessary
Israel has attacked Palestinian villages, town and cities; homes and holy sites; and crops, as well as people for decades. The occupation state and its “democratic” allies around the world ignore human rights and international law, allowing Israel to act with impunity. Losing loved ones and facing human rights...
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Why do Palestinians not deserve support for their self-defence?
Israeli occupation forces raid Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps in the occupied West Bank almost every day. They storm Palestinian homes, detain whoever they want and most times kill Palestinians, including women, children and elderly. As the whole world watches, the Israeli occupation authorities claim that they target wanted...
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Saudi has become partner of Zionists in the occupation of Palestine
At the Saudi-Indian Investment Forum held following the G20 meeting in India, Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammad Bin Salman, said that the creation of the Economic Corridor had been announced by New Delhi, which will connect India, Middle East and Europe together, would achieve the common interests of “our countries...
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The Israeli government’s judicial overhaul has benefitted the Gaza Strip
Israel’s far-right coalition government, the most extreme in Israel’s history of extreme governments, has started a controversial process to reform the judicial system in the occupation state. The intention is to weaken the power of the Supreme Court to oversee legislation passed by the politicians, and to give more...
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Netanyahu used his UN speech to embarrass Saudi leaders and sell illusions of victory
In his address to world leaders at the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to embarrass Saudi leaders by revealing plans not yet in the public domain. He disclosed what has been going on behind closed doors regarding the normalisation of ties between the apartheid state...
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Saudi Arabia does not care about Palestine or Jerusalem; it cares about Israel
The normalisation of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israeli is in the news again, in what has become a will they-won’t they situation. Israel is eager to have formal ties with Saudi Arabia as it is the richest Arab country in the Middle East and has the weight and...
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The PA is an Israel instrument to crack down on Palestine Resistance
The American administration has recently sent arms supplies to the Palestinian Authority (PA), including armoured vehicles, batons and teargas canisters in order to boost the ability of its security services in their crackdown on the Palestinian Resistance across the Occupied West Bank cities. Senior sources from the PA confirmed the...
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Arab collaboration with Israel has been going on for decades
As a young boy, I loved to hear stories about the past from my parents. I once asked my father, who was then in his 60s, why he had left his two-storey house and large olive grove in the city of Lod. He put his hands on his eyes...
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Are Palestinians facing Israel’s brutality alone?
Israeli occupation forces have increased their bloody incursions into the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, killing and wounding scores of Palestinians including women, children and the elderly. According to the UN, since the start of 2023, Israeli occupation forces have killed more that 200 Palestinians. In a briefing to...
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Is Qatar upset with the besieged Gaza Strip?
The Administrative Committee of the Gaza Strip announced last month that it was cutting its employees’ salaries by five per cent. This came as part of a package of austerity measures approved by the inner circles of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, which runs the besieged coastal territory. Palestinian...
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Gabon: Another tough strike for France in Africa
From West to Central Africa, France has been very quickly losing the backyards of its economy. Recently, it lost Niger in West Africa, one of its uranium reservoirs, and now, Gabon, one of its oil reservoirs. Only one day after announcing Ali Bongo as the winner of a disputed presidential...
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Africa will not allow France’s exploitation to continue
In 1977, when Djibouti gained its independence after 115 years of brutal French occupation, the era of European colonialism in Africa had almost come to an end. Only small enclaves occupied by Spain and Britain remained. Like other colonisers, France had not left its former colonies before making sure that...
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Will African states intervene to reinstate ousted Nigerien president?
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) decided on Friday to intervene militarily to reinstate ousted President of Niger Mohamed Bazoum, who was removed from office by the current junta on 26 July. “The decision has been taken on the exact day of the proposed military intervention in Niger,...
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Losing Niger is one of the toughest strikes for France in Africa
On 26 July, young Nigerien General Abdourahamane Tiani along with a group of his military colleagues carried out a coup d’état in the West African country. Unlike tens of coups d’état in West Africa, this one was not orchestrated by France. Its military leader is not a friend to France,...
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Has Erdogan turned his back on the Arabs and Muslims?
Ever since he first came to power in the early 2000s, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been a courageous supporter of every aspect of Islam in his country. This support overflowed into the Turkic nations and Arab countries. After a decade in power, Erdogan became the spearhead of many...
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Israel discriminatory definition of crime and incitement
Israeli occupation authorities use strict and usually illegal mechanisms to suppress the legitimate Palestinian resistance, and take unprecedented measures to inflict suffering on the Palestinians in Occupied Palestine, Occupied Territories, the refugee camps and even in prisons. Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation is guaranteed by international laws and conventions;...
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Israel can no longer rely on an acquiescent international community
The Zionist state of Israel has been receiving preferable treatment and support from an acquiescent international community, mainly countries in the West which dominate international bodies and other countries around the world, even before it was created in occupied Palestine in 1948. Despite never declaring where its borders lie...
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Palestinians incite against Gaza once again
Early this week, hundreds of people in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis took to the streets calling for the Administrative Committee in the besieged enclave to provide them with a better quality of life. They also called for lifting alleged restrictions imposed on freedom of expression in...
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Arab leaders use Palestine to boost their popularity
Early this week, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said that his country’s independence would never be complete as long as Palestine is occupied. Echoing the words of the late South African freedom fighter and President Nelson Mandela, he also pointed out that this has been the position of his predecessors...
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Israel sponsors violent settlers, while the media whitewashes their crimes
Over the last ten days of June, hundreds of armed extremist Israeli Jewish settlers rampaged through Palestinian towns and villages in the occupied West Bank. They set fire to Palestinian homes, cars and many other facilities. They killed a Palestinian man and wounded many others. In one of the cases,...
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Bennett gave us a clear definition of who the terrorists are: Israel’s so-called ‘army’
Early this month, during the Israeli occupation army’s offensive on the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, BBC News anchor Anjana Gadgil interviewed former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and asked him whether the occupation forces “are happy to kill children” in Jenin. Gadgil’s questions...
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Are the PA and Fatah ready for national unity?
Due to the repeated major Israeli offensives on the cities and villages of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the enduring suffering inflicted by the Israeli occupation on Palestinians, head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), PLO and Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, invited the leaders of the Palestinian factions for a...
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Has Israel greenlighted the killing of senior Hamas leaders?
Early this week, Israeli media reported that an anti-tank missile was launched from Lebanon at an Israeli military target. It also reported Israeli officials claiming that senior Hamas leader Saleh Al-Arouri had ordered the launch of the missile. Israeli TV Channel 14 has recently reported security officials claiming that the...
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Israel suffered a resounding defeat in the battle of Jenin
After 48 hours of pounding the one square kilometre Jenin refugee camp, one thousand Israeli occupation troops from the most elite units equipped with helicopters, drones, bulldozers and more than 250 armoured vehicles retreated. They left behind a trail of death and destruction: 12 Palestinians were killed and more...