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Items by Osama Abu Irshaid
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Palestinians deserve better leadership
We distinguish between the great and the small when it comes to critical and pivotal situations, and how they deal with them. Those who rise to the challenge in leadership, understanding, responsibility and management are judged as great. Those who fail in such situations are judged as small. Of course,…
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Ethnic cleansing of Gaza and American genetics
When Donald Trump spoke about “controlling” the Gaza Strip, “owning”, making it American, displacing more than two million of its people, and working to turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East”, under the pretext of the massive destruction it has suffered and the impossibility of living there, he…
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The war on Gaza is Israel’s greatest failure since its establishment
The internal Israeli disagreements within the Israeli war cabinet and the Israeli-American differences that are emerging as part of the prevailing tension between Biden and Netanyahu are a reflection of the crises that resulted from the failure of the war on Gaza. This war is entering its sixth month without…
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The shameful imbalance in US-Israel relations
On 8 June, 1967, during the Israeli aggression against Egypt, Syria and Jordan, the US military spy ship USS Liberty was attacked in international waters off the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula by several jet fighters and three gunboats. This resulted in the deaths of 34 and the injuries of 171 crew…
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Is America really a ‘force for good’ in the Middle East?
In his speech at the American University in Cairo two weeks ago, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed that he wanted to tell us the “truth” and said that, “America is a force for good in the Middle East, period.” He then added: “When America retreats, chaos follows. When…