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How many people have heard of Karim Younis? If his name means very little to you, that's probably because you were a child or not even born when he...
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There will be a collective sigh of relief from Palestinians when disgraced President Donald Trump finally leaves the White House for good on Wednesday, because no single nation has...
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If you want to divert attention away from your own criminal behaviour, nothing works better, it seems, than starting a fire in someone else's backyard. Even better if you...
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I've often wondered why the Muslim Brotherhood strikes fear into the hearts of Arab regimes. Prisons across Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are filled with thousands...
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The words and wisdom of the late, great South African leader Nelson Mandela are often invoked to illustrate a point when confronted by injustice and how to deal with...
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Even though Donald Trump has still not accepted that he lost the US presidential election, I hear that his imminent departure from the White House is causing great concern...
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Around half a million French people took to the streets over the weekend urging President Emmanuel Macron's government to abandon legislation which would stop the publication of photographs or...
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The United Nations declared 29 November to be the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People more than 40 years ago. Sadly, it has become just another date...
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American journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem yesterday challenged his inclusion on a US government "kill list" even though he is thousands of miles away in a rebel-held prison in Syria....
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Millions of people around the world are watching in astonishment at the bizarre spectacle of Donald Trump's end days as US president which is turning America into a laughing...
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It looks as if French President Emmanuel Macron is looking for a way out of the mess he has created with his fiery rhetoric and attack on the Muslim...
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I miss Yasser Arafat. Like many revolutionary leaders he was flawed but he had guts, determination and a courage that reflected the Palestinians he served so well. When challenged...
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Nothing irritates Israel's apologists more than to see it being described as an "Apartheid state" even though its Palestinian citizens will confirm their second class status to anyone who...
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On average we each tend to use around 16,000 words a day to communicate with one another, but there is one word which appears to be banned by the...
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The future of Israel is hanging in the balance as the number of immigrants has dropped by more than a third, according to the latest statistics. While the coronavirus...
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The Arab League has a reputation for being full of men overburdened by their own sense of importance. This, though, could be about to change because of one small...
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When Al Jazeera's hard-hitting documentary "The Lobby" exposed how the pro-Israel lobby had faked allegations of anti-Semitism and sought to influence British politics, it led to an apology from...
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Israel's plans to wipe Palestine off the map are very real, especially Benjamin Netanyahu's intention to annex a huge section of the occupied West Bank. Such expansionism by the...
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'In the video, Sharif talks openly about how he was tortured, describing the crude methods adopted by HTS from the Assad regime. What is being done is not only torture and a war crime, but is also prohibited in Islam'
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The controversial American journalist who sued the US government for putting him on a "kill list" in war-torn Syria, was arrested yesterday by a Sunni Islamist militant group in...
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The ordeal of a British-born aid worker in Syria who was taken by members of a Sunni Islamist militant group in rebel-held Idlib took another twist on Tuesday when...
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When Americans tell me that they are envious of Britain because of our Royal Family, I can sort of understand what they mean, especially when I look across the...
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A direct action group in support of Palestine burst onto the scene in London this week by storming an Israeli arms company in the heart of the English capital...
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This is a tale of two cities twinned by treachery. Syria's Jabal Al-Zawiya might be 1,800 miles away from Sirte in Libya, but their fates are very much intertwined...
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The Palestinian people have drawn support from many legendary figures over the years. The universally admired Afro-American civil rights activist, writer and poet Maya Angelou was one of them....
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Apparently Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, is "very distressed" by the decision to revert the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia into a mosque; it has been a...
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Vocal human rights activist Malcolm X once said: "You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress" and...
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Britain's Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer sacked his shadow education secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey, today after she tweeted praise for an interview in which the actor Maxine Peake described...
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A British aid worker has been kidnapped in Syria by members of a Sunni Islamist militant group in rebel-held Idlib, it emerged on Monday night. Tauqir Sharif, 31, from...
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I have deliberately avoided watching the video of the murder of George Floyd simply because I've seen so many similar images before on the streets of Palestine under Israel's...
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Long before Sir Winston Churchill said that history is written by the victors there were variations on the theme; the winners of any conflict get to write the definitive...
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Ever since President Donald Trump blundered blindly into the Middle East with his woefully inexperienced team of advisors, US foreign policy has swung wildly out of control. Predictably, it...