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Items by Wael Qandil
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Tears of the children of Camp David
Yesterday marked 45 years since the signing of the Camp David Accords between Anwar Sadat and the Prime Minister of the Israeli occupation, Menachem Begin, under the auspices of US President, Jimmy Carter. These two agreements represented a framework for reaching what was known as the Egyptian-Israeli “peace treaty”...
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The Sudanese general’s interesting appearance in New York
He will visit Israel if he is invited and the means are available to go. It was with this clear audacity that the chairman of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, spoke to the media on the sidelines of the meetings of the 77th session of...
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Escaping the clutches of the homeland
The arrival of the political activist, the Egyptian of Palestinian origin, Ramy Shaath, to France, after he was deported from the Egyptian prisons, stripped of the nationality of the country in which he was born and lived, is an occasion to grieve and mourn the countries that have brutalised...
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The tyrannical Arab League
Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the Arab League, found nothing else to occupy his time other than to declare his support and understanding of the coup carried out by Kais Saied in Tunisia, through which he obtained a seat in the club of Arab tyrants and dictators. The man...
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Tyrants cannot imagine life without tyranny
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued decree number 433 of 2021 withdrawing presidential decree 327 of 2021, which includes the appointment of Mohamed Gamal El-Sayed Taye as an assistant delegate in the State Council. The latter decision was based on the approval of the State Council’s Special Council for...
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From Sisi to Houthi: The art of flirting with coups
Throughout his estrangement with Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan had considered it a principled and moral position to take. This was not merely a radical political stand-off between a country that had rid itself of a long and bitter legacy of military coups, and a military regime...
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There are far more dangerous people around than actors who party with Israelis
Egyptians are up in arms about actor and singer Mohamed Ramadan being photographed at a party in the UAE with Israeli celebrities. Israel and the UAE are all the rage these days, and he was just being used as part of a normalisation carnival. The simple fact is that...
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Prophet Muhammad is being used in the Saudi-Israeli normalisation process
The catastrophic news that war is possible between Egypt and Turkey in Libya passed almost without notice, not least because Saudi Arabia is using the name of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, in its frantic struggle to win the race to be the Arab country which is most...
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More prisons and fewer hospitals as the destruction of Egypt continues
The real catastrophe in Egypt is not the Covid-19 pandemic reaching its peak, but the peaking of stupidity and disregard for citizens’ needs. The country is facing the coronavirus on less than 10 per cent of medicine and more than 90 per cent of security, militarism, quackery and sorcery....
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Netanyahu between the Nakba Arabs and the Arabs who are a joke
The Arabs agreed in 1948 on the decision to form combat groups against the Zionist colonisation of the land of Palestine, which was known as the Nakba. Exactly 72 years later, the Arabs seem closer to form a united combat force to fight those rejecting the Zionist colonisation of...
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Abbas sides with Olmert and Burhan sides with Netanyahu
I first heard about Sudan when I was a child, when my older brother travelled to Khartoum to continue his studies at the Military College at the end of 1969, and he would then come back to fight against the Israeli enemy who defeated us and occupied our land.bas...
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The throne in exchange for Golan Heights
What if Bashar al-Assad called on the Syrian people to rally and fight in defence of the occupied Golan Heights? Who would respond to his call while Syria is deprived of 13 million of its people, the number of displaced Syrians as a result of Bashar’s crime? These 13...
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Five years of the Israeli Spring
More than eight hundred martyrs were killed at the hands of the Hosni Mubarak regime during the events of the war on the January 2011 revolution. Another 3,000 were martyred during the most violent phase of the military regime’s war on the revolution, which began in June 2013. This...
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Compromising on the resistance
It remains difficult to understand that the Hamas resistance seems satisfied and responsive to the so-called Egyptian role in the proposed scenarios for a settlement in Gaza. The issue becomes even more difficult in light of the disclosure of yet another secret meeting, held in Egypt, between Benjamin Netanyahu,...
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The tyrant’s throne
What encouraged Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi to use his recent speeches to declare the intensification of his tyranny and oppression? What gave the Egyptian President the reassurance that the so-called humanitarian conscience, and the international community, would continue to support him in his path to crush Egypt’s state, and its...
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Drying up the sources of Egyptian press
In short, they want to destroy the bridges between the media and the ordinary citizen, considering the citizens to be the private property of the ruling authority. No one is allowed to talk to, approach them, or address their concerns and aspirations in any way. This is what Abdel...
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Does the ‘deal of the century’ include President Morsi?
This seasonal state of political frenzy and arrogant brazenness against the captive President Mohamed Morsi is neither strange nor new. It erupts at this time of year, every year, in a manner similar to seasonal variations in the prevalence of mental illness. However, what is new this year is...
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Sudan is there for Egypt and Sisi for Israel
Following the open foulness and chauvinism expressed by Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s state media against Sudan’s government and people, one is struck by an astonishing historical irony. Perhaps the only street in an Arab capital city that bears the name of two countries together is the Egypt and Sudan Street,...
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Leaks or messages that have already been received?
Leaked tapes reveal Egypt's support for Trump's Jerusalem decision...
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You have Trump’s promise and we have Ahed Tamimi
Those who are outraged by the logo of any Qatari channel are not at all angered by Hebrew letters on the bag of a Zionist sneaking into the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina on a Saudi visa. Among them, too, are those who look at the image of the fierce...
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Freedom for Sisi and death to the masses
It is rare for a tyrannical government, which always exercises brutality and oppressive control over the people at all times, to inform the masses that the interior and defence ministers were targeted with a missile attack in Sinai. The state media outlets overly covered the story, providing detailed statements...
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Netanyahu's bright idea of moderation
In August 2014, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid the cornerstone for the “moderation” project. A little less than three years later, the Saudi monarch, the US president and their followers cut the tape in a boisterous opening ceremony in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh. The project organisers’...
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Al-Sisi mandates the people to protect him from the terrorism that he has created
For the sake of argument I will assume that Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi actually obtained on that abominable day in July 2013 what he described as a mandate to combat “potential violence and terrorism.” I will overlook the fact that what happened next in Egypt was and remains a political...
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How many bags of money would it take to sell Egypt?
Egypt sold, Saudi Arabia bought, and the goods went to Israel with the full approval of the seller, Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi and the buyer, Mohammad Bin Salman. To sum up the Tiran and Sanafir islands deal, Israel wanted the islands outside of Egypt’s sovereignty, and Al-Sisi wanted to make...