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Items by Wael Qandil
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What did Camp David do to us?
History has taught us harsh lessons, the harshest of which is that hidden decisions are more dangerous than declared ones, and that official agreements and understandings are less harmful than secret understandings. The cursed Camp David Accords was an embodiment of this exhausting lesson, as it proves that what is…
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Colombia is more Arab than the Arab states
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro announced in August that his country had officially banned the export of coal to Israel. “Colombian coal,” he said, “is used to make bombs to kill Palestinian children.” Meanwhile, Egypt still shares its natural gas trade with the Zionist state; Jordan exports vegetables and fruits to…
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When the revolutionaries impede their revolution
The Arab Spring revolutions, at the heart of which is the Syrian revolution, the most draining and with the most suffering, are only let down by those who compare their fateful tragedy with the Palestinian tragedy, as if we are comparing blood with blood, wound with wound. However, what lets…
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May God curse whoever woke up the sleeping Arab League
It would have been better for the Palestinian cause, and for all other Arab causes, for the Arab League to remain in its deep “slumber”, remaining committed to its strategic position on the Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people after 7 October, 2023. This position was established on the principle…
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Gaza is being slaughtered with an Arab knife in Israel’s hands
If all the critical satirical poems written by Arab poets in the past eight decades that have passed since the establishment of the Zionist entity were gathered to describe the official Arab positions on what is happening in the Gaza Strip, they would not be sufficient to express the nature…
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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” in…
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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 the…
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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 their…
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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 who…
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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 Administrative…
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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 that…
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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 there…
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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 normalised…
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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. Ordinary…
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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 Palestine.…
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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 With…
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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 million…
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Sisi between Israeli approval and Saudi cash
Anyone who believes that the news coverage of the indecent flirtation between Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Israel may anger the Egyptian leader is mistaken. On the contrary, such reports and leaks make the General smile and on the verge of dancing for joy. We used to be surprised by the…
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When Alaa Al-Aswany emigrates
“I will emigrate to the Comoros or any distant country to flee your faces, you security agency spies. I really hope to do so.” With this painful sentence, the internationally known writer ended a tweet he posted yesterday in response to a news report that was widely circulated, claiming that…
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Sisi short-changes Cameron
Who is Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi kidding when he said that the Muslim Brotherhood is part of the Egyptian people and that the death sentences will not be implemented? It seems that the line “the death sentences will not be implemented” has become a key item packed in the brutal General’s…
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His Majesty Al-Sisi
The Egyptian citizen has the right, while watching the disaster in Alexandria, to ask: What has the Sisi regime done with the tens of billions it obtained as a prize for carrying out the coup? Where have more than $41 billion in Gulf aid gone? These were documented in a…
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Al-Baradei’s rejected gift and the doyen of rubbish collectors
By the consensus of objective Egyptian political affairs’ observers and analysts, the testimony of Dr Muhammad Al-Baradei “and he is said to be a doctor” stands out as the most serious indictment document pertaining to the crime of the coup against the nascent democracy in Egypt. I think it would…
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Crying over Kasasbeh doesn’t give a mandate to burn others
We live in a time in which barbaric Egyptian leaders use their media outlets to call on the masses to burn the houses of dissenters with their owners inside while crying, hypocritically it must be said, over the horrific killing of Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh. When Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi used…
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International regulation of counter-revolutions
You don’t have to let your imagination go far or even delve deep into the world of conspiracy theories to see that there appears to be an organised movement of counter-revolutions in the Arab world. You will not have departed too far from the truth if you were to believe…