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Aksener’s weekend split from the Turkish opposition alliance leaves it damaged
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expecting to face fierce competition in the presidential election scheduled to take place on 14 May, because the strong opposition front formed by six parties in February last year announced in August that it would be running a joint presidential candidate. The front is…
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Who will pay the price for the killing of the Palestinian aid worker in Huwara?
On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Israeli people saying: “A short time ago, we apprehended the three terrorists who were responsible for the murder of Elan Ganeles.” He bragged about the quick detention of the three Palestinian men for allegedly participating in the killing of the…
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There’s nothing new about Israel executing Palestinians
Israel’s ministerial committee for legislation has voted to advance a bill proposed by the Otzma Yehudit party led by extreme far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. If passed into legislation, Israel will have a legal fig-leaf to execute Palestinian prisoners. The introduction of capital punishment for Palestinian prisoners was a…
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Is the EU thanking Israel for stealing Palestinian gas to sell to its members?
Early this week the European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson delivered the opening speech at the Egypt Petroleum Show 2023 Strategic Conference, the largest oil, gas and energy conference and exhibition across Egypt, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Simson highlighted the EU’s need to diversify its energy sources, pointing out that this became…
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Palestinians do not celebrate the killing of children, but Israelis do
In the occupied city of Jerusalem, Hussein Qaraqe responded to a spate of violent attacks against Palestinians by ramming his car into a number of Israeli settlers at a bus stop. Two were killed, according to Israeli officials, and six were wounded, one of whom died later of his wounds.…
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Israel is trying to win a PR battle through its fake rescue mission in Turkiye
Following the devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake ripped through Turkiye and Syria on Monday, dozens of countries rushed to offer humanitarian assistance to help rescue survivors, treat the wounded and shelter the displaced. Israel was among them, with its army’s rescue teams dispatched to earthquake-stricken southeastern Turkiye. The Israeli occupation army said…
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The US and Israel are exploiting Sudan through the normalisation gateway
A senior Israeli delegation headed by Foreign Minister Eli Cohen went to Khartoum last week and met Sudan’s military leader Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan. The agenda included “ways to establish fruitful relations” between Israel and Sudan. The normalisation of ties between the African country and the occupation state were also discussed.…
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Racist Israeli nationals reflect their new government
On Tuesday a Jewish mother gave birth at the Israeli HaEmek Medical Centre in the city of Afula in the northern district of Israel. The Jewish woman found herself lying in a room alongside an Arab mother who had given birth at the same hospital. The Jewish woman got angry and asked hospital…
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US insists on glorifying Israel despite its increasing violations of international law
Following the killing of seven Israeli Jewish settlers in the illegal settlement of Neve Yaakov on Friday evening, US President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and condemned the incident as a “horrific attack”. A readout provided by the White House stated that Biden “offered all appropriate…
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Will Benjamin Netanyahu’s government survive?
Before it was formed, the new far-right Israeli government coalition has been plagued with disputes and disagreements, despite the fact that all of its members are from the right-wing parties and all of them, at least, share the same principles, although each Party has its own procedures to achieve the…
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Is Jordan really the custodian of Jerusalem’s holy sites?
Israeli occupation forces detained the Director of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani, as he entered the Noble Sanctuary on Tuesday. He was humiliated and searched before being allowed to enter the Islamic holy site. Last week, the Israeli occupation forces delayed Britain’s Minister for the Middle East, Lord Tariq Ahmad,…
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Why does Israeli democracy matter, but Palestinian democracy doesn’t?
In January 2006, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — won a resounding victory in the parliamentary election, with 74 out of 132 seats. Its main rival, the secular Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, won 45 seats. According to Hana Naser, the head of the Central Election Commission, 77…
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Who is more extreme, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, or Netanyahu?
Since they won the Knesset elections in November, leader of the Religious Zionist Party, Bezalel Smotrich, and leader of Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) Party, Itamar Ben-Gvir, have been making local, regional and international headlines due to their far-right extremist stances, and racist and hostile attitudes towards secularists as well as…
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Is Sisi fooling us about his ties with Israel?
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is apparently angry with the Zionist state of Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to the “failure” of attempts to “rein in” far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. It was Ben-Gvir who defied the whole world and desecrated Al-Aqsa Mosque last week,…
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Jordan’s parliament issues nothing more than empty words
Just days after the most right-wing Israeli government was sworn in, one of the most extremist and far-right ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir, stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site. By doing so, Ben-Gvir fulfilled his pledges to the far-right Israeli voters that he would challenge everyone to make the site a…
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Netanyahu’s new government in Israel is ‘against the state’
After five General Elections in Israel since 2019, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu again took the oath of office as prime minister on Thursday shortly after the Knesset passed a vote of confidence in his coalition government. Out of 120 MKs, 63 voted in favour of Israel’s most extreme government to…
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Despite being the ‘best ever’ FIFA World Cup, the West still resents that it was in Qatar
According to Gianni Infantino, the President of FIFA, football’s world governing body, the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was “an incredible success on all fronts.” The first such tournament hosted by an Arab and Muslim country was, he said, “the best ever.” For Infantino, the fact that football fans “met…
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There is no internal Palestinian division, just pro and anti-occupation factions
Despite the continuous security coordination between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli occupation, the PA has toned down its security campaigns against Palestinians who fight the Israeli occupation in the occupied West Bank to the extent that a lot of people thought the internal division between Fatah and Hamas…
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The rise of the far-right exposes the fallacy of Israel’s ‘values’
The latest General Election in Israel was held on 1 November. The election campaign saw hatred and hostility between politicians come to the surface across the political spectrum. The rise of the far-right, moreover, has exposed the fallacy of the values that Israel would have us believe make its army,…
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Massive support for Palestine has pushed Israel to test sustainability of Abraham Accords
Since the creation of the Zionist Occupation State of Israel following the killing and forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes, lands, villages and cities in 1948, Israeli governments could normalise ties only with two Arab countries – Egypt and Jordan – until 2019. Israel, Egypt and Jordan have bilateral…
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Sorry Mr Lapid, but you and your soldiers do need lessons in morality
Al Jazeera TV Network has submitted the case of Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. It claims to have new evidence that proves that the Israeli occupation forces “deliberately” shot dead journalist Abu Akleh during an Israeli army raid in the occupied West…
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In Israel, there is no right or left; they’re all extremists
Attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank by Israeli occupation forces and extremist Jewish settlers have increased sharply. Too many of the attacks have been deadly. In the latest “extrajudicial execution”, young Palestinian Ammar Mefleh, 22, was shot dead by a police officer who was manhandling him in Huwwarah,…
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Why were English football fans dressed as crusaders banned from stadiums in Qatar?
Qatari security stopped two British football fans and asked them not to enter Al Bayt Stadium to watch the game between Team USA and their country’s national team because they were dressed like crusaders, telling them that such gear is offensive. The Times of London reported the football governing body,…
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Does the FIFA World Cup tournament deserve $220bn from Qatar?
In 2009, Qatar applied to host FIFA World Cup finals in 2022. Many doubted that such a small conservative Arab country would be able to do it. For it is the first time that an Arab and Muslim country hosts this global event since it was inaugurated in 1930, so…