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Items by Alice Su
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How long will Americans wonder why the world hates them?
Americans continue to ask the same silly question: Why does the world hate us? Since I was a student in the US we have been discussing America’s policies of intervention and bias. Figures indicate that the CIA and the agencies affiliated with it have engaged in covert and open...
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Enough of hypocrisy: It’s time to stop the genocide
In the face of escalating genocide, we hear from official Western circles a soft, altered tone expressing disapproval of the continued crimes committed by Netanyahu government. The most appalling of these crimes include starvation and the prevention of humanitarian aid from entering through the UN system and insistence on...
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Trump, part two: Is America losing its global leadership role?
What are the implications of Donald Trump’s return to our regional and Arab issues: the Israeli occupation, the Gaza genocide, Iran’s threats and its nuclear programme, and Gulf security? America’s allies are increasingly concerned about Trump’s approach and his apparent alignment with their adversaries, especially Russia’s Vladimir Putin, a...
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Isolating the Emirati regime has become an urgent necessity
Anyone closely observing the behaviour of the leaders of the Emirati regime, particularly under the leadership of Mohammed bin Zayed, in handling sensitive regional issues—foremost among them, the Arab-Israeli conflict—will find that this small state has inflicted painful betrayals on the Palestinian cause. The UAE is not merely a...
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Trump and the Era of Chaos
The project of displacing Palestinians and occupying the Gaza Strip is a declaration of war on the humanitarian international community. It takes us back to different eras of bloodshed, brutality, fascism, and Nazism—those periods governed by the law of the jungle, where people were slaughtered, cities were destroyed and...
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Reckless, unhinged, ludicrous? It’s hard to find the words for Trump’s latest outburst on the Gaza ‘Riviera’
Over the last fifteen months, I’ve slowly become desensitised to comments and actions that I would once have considered absurd. I’ve seen British politicians from across the political spectrum do medal-worthy mental gymnastics as they respond to serious, incisive questions with robotic voices, churning out platitudes about Israel’s right...
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Is Trump a peacemaker or a warmonger?
During his inauguration, Trump clearly expressed his desire to be remembered in history as a “peacemaker”, unlike the legacy left by his predecessor who instigated wars in the world. He took pride in the pressures he exerted which led to a ceasefire agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis,...
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Could the head of the world’s highest court be a judge with Zionist tendencies?
With the dust of war settling over the Gaza Strip and the ceasefire taking effect on Sunday, 19 January, 2025, hopes are rising for international investigative teams to enter Gaza and document the catastrophic aftermath of the 15-month-long war of extermination. The reports issued by media outlets and international...
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The debate over the narratives of victory and defeat in the war on Gaza
Israel’s acceptance of the ceasefire agreement sparked controversy over its three stages, stopping Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza after arduous negotiations and mediation led by Qatar, Egypt, the Biden administration, and Trump’s envoy to the Middle East. It was reached despite the inflexibility, evasion and avoidance of Israeli Prime...
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Sunday morning: A glorious day of heroism, sacrifice, and resilience
As the ceasefire comes into effect today, Sunday, the people of Gaza will finally catch their breath and begin to heal their wounds after enduring more than 15 months of the most horrific genocide of the modern era. The world will come to realize that the figures published and...
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What fate awaits Abbas and his Authority?
Mahmoud Abbas has six security agencies which operate mainly in the (A) classified area of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and which exchange roles with the Occupation forces in suppressing the Palestinian people. These six agencies are the General Intelligence, Preventive Security, Military Intelligence, Civil Police, National Security and Presidential...
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Having the will in the path of change
The transitional path in the new Syria is long, thorny and requires persistence and patience. This regime has been suffocating the Syrians for more than fifty years, during which it has committed the most horrific crimes, including arresting, torturing and killing tens of thousands, destroying cities, displacing their inhabitants,...
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Liberating Syria forever
After more than fifty years of tyranny, oppression and injustice, the Assad regime had a resounding fall, thanks to the sacrifices of the great Syrian people who struggled, suffered and sacrificed everything on the altar of freedom, especially over the last thirteen years. When the Syrian people peacefully declared...
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Many moving parts in Syria puzzle on brink of new offensives
Syria has been through various stages, from the outbreak of the so-called Arab Spring to the Arab winter. Such seasonal changes have brought the rise and decline as well as the concentration and fragmentation of rebels in many cycles. Over the past 4 years, the situation map in Syria...
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2024: The year of setbacks for Iran and its axis
History will record that the year 2024 was a critical year with all its phases, developments and wars, inflicting severe harm to the project and status of Iran, its axis and its allies more than any year before it. Israel’s aggression continued in its war of extermination on Gaza....
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A bright day in the history of the international humanitarian community
An earthquake shook the fascist entity after more than 400 days in which a genocide, the mother of all crimes, was being committed against the civilians in the Gaza Strip, including women, children and the elderly. The politicians of this entity believed they were immune from prosecution due to...
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The media ordeal in Tunisia
If there is a profession in Tunisia that has become truly oppressive against its people, it is definitely the profession of journalism, and if there is anyone in this profession who is classified as being in great suffering, it is undoubtedly those who gather a small number of voices...
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Israel: From Haniyeh and Nasrallah to Sinwar… A strategic failure
History teaches us that ideas and ideologies do not fade and end with the assassination and killing of their leaders and founders but, rather, they rediscover themselves through its members and staff who emerged, trained and acquired intellectual, ideological and even combat expertise and capabilities. Yahya Sinwar, the architect...
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Israel’s quest for strategic depth in the Horn of Africa through Somaliland
Somaliland attracts the attention of many states due to its geopolitical location. A former British colony, it borders Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia. Previously an autonomous region of Somalia, Somaliland gained its independence after 1991. With a dominant position on the Gulf of Aden, it is near the entrance to...
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China’s strategic infrastructure diplomacy in the Middle East
China has a growing geopolitical and economic footprint across all continents, and perhaps no region better exemplifies its strategic utility than the Middle East, under the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI is regarded as a counter-strategy to those of the US and other Western countries. Beijing’s...
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UK charity launches campaign to prosecute British IDF soldiers
The British government remains persistent in concealing the number of British nationals and dual Israeli nationals who have enlisted in the Israeli military. After a series of back and forth with the Foreign Office, Declassified UK was informed that in September 2023, 80 British nationals were serving as “lone...
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Turkiye’s geopolitical gambit: The cost of getting into BRICS
Turkiye’s relations with the West have always been on tightropes as the country under the leadership of President Recep Erdogan was trying to find its identity in Eurasia. It needed security and economic assurances from the West but limelight in the East as the leading Muslim nation. However, post...
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The past twelve months have been a year of shame and a year of pride
The Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip have been through twelve months of killing, destruction, displacement and starvation in a genocide unprecedented in modern history. It has played out live on social media, witnessed by the whole world. It has been a whole year of betrayal and silence from...
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The Labour Party conference exposed Starmer’s unflinching support for Israeli aggression
It’s difficult to comprehend the horrors of what’s happening in Gaza, Lebanon and beyond in the Middle East. The heartbreaking scenes of dirt-encrusted toddlers screaming as they’re pulled from the rubble of what was once their homes; the small children carrying plastic bags containing the remains of their slain...