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Items by Dr Daud Abdullah
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What is required from Palestinians to confront Netanyahu’s fascist government?
With Netanyahu’s fascist government approving a group of economic and political sanctions against our people, foremost of which is the confiscation of $39 million in clearing funds to be given to the families of Zionists killed in Palestinian resistance operations, to seizing the value of sums paid to prisoners...
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There is no alternative to the Palestinian struggle
Israeli Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu is not going to allow his coalition allies from the far-right Religious Zionism party, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, to embarrass him or outdo him in terms of showing loyalty to the expansionist colonial project. He will not let them appear to be more...
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Mistakes have been made by Turkiye’s ruling party that could affect the 2023 elections
The number of domestic and foreign issues demanding the attending of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in Turkiye is growing. The elephant in the room is next year’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Scheduled for June 2023, they could, of course, be held earlier. Indeed, it is...
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Stop them … before they burn the whole region down
World leaders gather, these days, at the 77th session of the UNGA, and the main address for all speakers, from presidents and representatives of states, is international peace and security. The UN has achieved this in many places around the world, but failed to achieve in others, and perhaps...
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Making an Al-Shabaab co-founder a minister is a welcome move by the Somali government
News of the ministerial appointment of an Al-Shabaab co-founder and spokesperson, Mukhtar Robow, by Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre is welcome news. The move looks well calculated and should be seen as an olive branch to the extremists of Al-Shabaab with the message that should they wish to...
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The attempt to assassinate Al-Shaer is the peak of ongoing violations
The attempt to assassinate the former deputy Prime Minister and a leader in Hamas, academic Nasser Al-Din Al-Shaer, a few days ago in Nablus, which resulted in him being shot by several bullets in his leg, indicates the desire of the shooters, and those who prompted them, to commit...
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What did Turkiye gain from normalising its regional relations?
Turkish foreign policy during the era of the Justice and Development party witnessed several stages of change, primarily coinciding with, and influenced by, local and regional developments. However, the last few years have shown it to be as if it has become a daily policy that is closer to...
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Biden’s visit puts US interests and Israel ahead of legitimate Palestinians rights and regional security
US President Joe Biden is visiting the Middle East in the next few days. He will meet the Zionist leadership in occupied Palestine followed by a courtesy meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem. Biden will then head to Saudi Arabia on a direct flight from Tel Aviv...
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The perilous road ahead for Ukrainian refugees
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, millions of people have had to flee their homes to seek safety. According to United Nations (UN) figures, almost seven million left Ukraine while eight million others are reportedly internally displaced. The first hurdle for those fleeing the war is to...
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The ICC is a tool of the arrogant, imperialist West
News that Al Jazeera Media Network has taken the racist, apartheid government of Israel to the International Criminal Court at The Hague for the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is welcome news for all peace and justice loving citizens around the world. The hope will be that Al...
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Media, ideology and the war in Ukraine
Russia’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine will come to an end eventually, but the media representations and narratives of the war will remain in our minds for a long time. Three specific and related dimensions of ideological discourse are evident in the Western media representation of Ukraine, and need...
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Why does the West condemn some terrorism, but condone it on other occasions?
News that Syrian terrorists groups such as Tahrir Al-Sham, the former Jabhat Al-Nusra outfit, have entered Ukraine to fight the Russian Army on behalf of the neo-Nazi Ukrainian Army, is very confusing. We have been led to believe for years that the western powers led by the US are...
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Is Imamoglu a strong candidate for the Turkish presidential election?
Since the municipal elections in Turkey in 2019, the name of the Mayor of Greater Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, has been proposed as a possible and even strong candidate for the presidential election next year. He was successful in winning the most important and largest municipality in the country, which...
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The failure of the Kazakhstan experience
Russia thwarted an American-Israeli plan to bomb Kazakhstan the way they did with Afghanistan, which was what happened in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, benefiting from the experience of its late intervention in Syria. It quickly responded to the request of Kazakh President, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and moved rapid intervention...
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Australians supporting Palestine
As we followed the various Arab and international events occurring over these past few days, two news items published by some Arab media caught our attention but were completely ignored by the media of the normalised countries. The two news reports may seem small, but we see them as...
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Has Turkey abandoned Assad’s departure as a condition for progress?
The four Turkish conditions for the withdrawal of its troops from Syria, as reported in the media, have raised questions about the reality of Turkey’s position on the regime of Bashar Al-Assad, and whether Ankara has changed its position of refusing to recognise its legitimacy. In what appeared to...
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Even if the meeting did not occur
In practice, the recent meeting of PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, with Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, in Tel Aviv, did not take place to add another confirmation or new evidence to the pile of political and national sins that the PA leadership has been committing since its inception, especially since...
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Will 2022 be the ‘Year of the Palestinian Prisoners’?
Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash has apparently agreed to end his hunger strike of 141 days in a deal with Israel which will see him released next month. Abu Hawash went on hunger strike in protest at the occupation state’s decision to hold him since 27 October 2020 with...
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Israeli air strikes won’t make us lose hope, Gaza student says after passing exams days after family’s death
On Sunday 16 May, in the pitch dark of the night between midnight and dawn 51-year-old Shukri Al-Kulak and his 22-year-old daughter lay under the rubble of their home. Shukri tried to make his way to his 83-year-old mother to help resuscitate her, while his daughter Zainab was trapped...
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The PA security services bring shame and humiliation to the people of occupied Palestine
Unsurprisingly, Palestinian Authority security forces safeguarded two Israeli settlers who entered Ramallah a few days ago. As has happened before, the incident passed largely unnoticed until the PA officers had to protect the settlers from the anger of Palestinian youths at Al-Manara roundabout, and return them safely to the...
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Rapprochement with the UAE: Is Turkey changing its foreign policy?
The past few weeks have brought about an important shift in the region, represented by the visit of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Zayed, to Turkey and his meeting with Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, where he was warmly received. The two countries signed a number of agreements...
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Britain’s missed opportunity to redeem itself
This year’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was yet another missed opportunity for Britain. There were no messages of support or atonement from Whitehall for the tragedy it inflicted on the Palestinian people when it enabled the UN partition of their land on 29 November 1947....
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Israel’s destruction of historic cemeteries threatens a fragile calm
A team of Israeli municipality workers escorted by police officers began to bulldoze Al-Yusufiya Muslim Cemetery a few metres away from the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa in October, sweeping away human remains and scattering bones in the process. Palestinian Jerusalemites rushed to the cemetery to defend the gravestones of...
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‘If I gave up Jerusalem for the UK, a settler would take my place’
On Wednesday 29 September, Jerusalemite Hana Alamleh was packing her bags for her journey back to Palestine after having stayed a year in the United Kingdom. The 24-year-old was awarded the Said Foundation scholarship to pursue her master’s degree in sociolinguistics at Essex University in the 2020/2021 academic year....