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Items by Saeed Al-Shehabi
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Is there anything new on Turkiye’s path towards Europe?
As usual, Turkish President Recep Tayyeb Erdogan has made another political U-turn with his country’s foreign policy. After stressing repeatedly just a few days before the NATO summit in Lithuania last month that Sweden has still not done all that is required of it to Turkiye’s satisfaction as agreed...
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The revoking of citizenship should be outlawed
Why should anyone have to live in fear of losing their citizenship simply for trying to exercise their civil and political rights? This is what the indigenous people of Palestine face after the Israeli Knesset (parliament) approved a law last Wednesday that allows the occupation authorities to revoke citizenship...
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Seven years on, and the war in Yemen has not achieved its goals
The war in Yemen will complete its seventh year this week and there is no end on the horizon, despite continuous calls to bring the conflict to a close. International anti-war organisations intensify their calls for a ceasefire, knowing that it is a “futile war” unlikely to be resolved...
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The targeting of Islam in the world is a worrying development
Among the most dangerous threats to world security today, in addition to the expansion of military armament, especially in the nuclear field and the spread of terrorism, is the phenomenon of antagonising religions, especially Islam, and seeking to demonise them using the most horrific methods. The most prominent of...
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Vienna and the future of relations between the West and Iran
After more than four decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran is still engaged in the same struggle as when the revolution toppled the Shah in February 1979. On that day, the revolutionaries led by Ayatollah Khomeini raised many slogans, among them independence, freedom and the Islamic regime. To confirm...
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Hunger strikes from Gandhi to Al-Singace are the last resort in the struggle for freedom
Hunger strikes are a new-old phenomenon resorted to by those who lack any other means to claim their rights, express their opinion or defend themselves. They are often the last resort in the struggle for freedom. The phenomenon is growing in prisons wherein detainees face injustice and are unable in...
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Israel’s diplomatic expansion in the face of Arab retraction
One of the manifestations of the fragmentation of the Arab nation is the decline of the Palestinian cause on the list of regional government priorities. Palestine was the focus of the Arab unity project from the start of the occupation nearly seventy years ago, but no more. There are many...
