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It has been a week of mixed blessings for Western leaders as Turkiye's Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again confounded his critics at the ballot box. Sporting more faces than...
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Anyone who supports Palestine and is vocal about the injustices suffered by the Palestinians living under Israel's brutal military occupation should be ready to be targeted and vilified by...
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A spectacular aerial stunt designed to prick the conscience of the publicity-shy Saudi Arabian regime was carried out in front of 52,000 eyewitnesses on Sunday as part of a...
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Politicians are, generally, good at lying. Some of them, like former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, simply can't help themselves and are widely regarded as serial offenders, while others...
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The outbreak of civil war in Sudan is a sad story of two out-of-control Generals at odds with each other, both trying to convince us all this is merely...
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Scotland is one of the smallest countries in the world but you would have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to know that last month Humza Yousaf became...
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Procrastination is the thief of time and I have idly spent the last few hours disappearing down different rabbit holes following odd facts and bits of useless information. I'm...
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The deliberate targeting and persecution of academics who are put through the "Zionist wringer" shows no sign of abating, even though the latest victim, Lara Sheehi has been cleared...
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Israel has gone to war yet again, but this time it's on home turf: Israelis are fighting with Israelis. The eyes of the world are on the Zionist state...
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When the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush flouted international law and unleashed Shock and Awe on Iraq in March 2003, the attack...
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Mother's Day in the Arab world is celebrated on the first day of spring, 21 March, and for many children it is the most important day of the year,...
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No one likes to be ignored, but before it can happen, you have to be heard in the first place. In many ways, that makes the deliberate turning of...
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As Jimmy Carter, at 98 the longest-lived US president, spends his final days with his family in "home hospice care", obituary writers will be busy reflecting upon the legacy...
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The odious Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is in a league of his own when it comes to using the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, according to a new...
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Sweden is one of the largest countries in Europe in terms of land mass, but it has a relatively small population of around ten million. It is generally regarded...
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The Western media spewed forth barrel loads of pompous invective recently about why Qatar should never have been chosen to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Bewildered Qataris found...
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If it seems like Groundhog Day in Afghanistan, you could be right. The ruling Taliban seems to have made little change to its ideology and is even further away...
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During his recent visit to the White House, US President Joe Biden promised Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the Ukrainian leader would "never stand alone". The grinning Zelenskyy reminded me of...
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Readers of my columns will know that I've never been a big fan of the United Nations because of its sheer inability to hold too many of the world's...
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In April last year, Israel reeled and railed against a Human Rights Watch report in which the Zionist State was revealed to be committing the crimes of apartheid and...
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The International Federation of Football Associations, FIFA, is a flawed governing body which has chosen to ignore a whole raft of corruption allegations — all denied — that it...
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There is a depth of sadness in the deep brown-eyed gaze of Islam Asalya that makes the observer uncomfortable, because you just know that there is a tragic story...
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Storm clouds are gathering over the skies of Egypt which have a hint of revolution within them. They could be the real reason why prominent climate change protagonists like...
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One of these days the political and military leadership in Israel will understand you can't kill an idea with bombs, bullets, brute force or bribery. Just when the brutal...
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When is a war not a war? Well, it depends on who is calling and firing the shots. As a young journalist, the first war I ever covered, albeit...
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Ordinary people have risen up against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran a few times since its inception more than 40 years ago. Historically, that is not...
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Sheikh Qaradawi probably did more behind the scenes fighting for justice for the Palestinian people than the corrupt armchair warriors sitting in the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.
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The past few days have seen an almost unprecedented attack on high-profile supporters of Palestine resulting in a concerted effort to silence some of Israel's most vocal critics once...
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The British media want us to believe that the awful scenes of violence on the suburban streets of Leicester were triggered by a cricket match between India and Pakistan...
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I must apologise for the absence of my regular column for MEMO. This was largely due to a sense of overwhelming grief and loss throughout the just ended mourning...
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It takes just a few seconds to post a tweet, but for one woman in Saudi Arabia it has resulted in a 45-year prison sentence which has shocked ordinary...
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Politicians in Pakistan rise to power and fall from grace with alarming regularity, so much so that not a single prime minister has ever completed a full term in...