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Items by Dr Mohammed Al-Misfer
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Mahmoud Abbas: the lost Palestinian leader
I do not know what is happening in our miserable Arab world. Our beloved Syria is burning and has been destroyed so severely as if by an earthquake at the hands of the Syrian regime’s forces and its allies. The rest of Idlib is awaiting its fate and the...
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We want a Gulf leader who will make history
June 5 is an ominous and sad day in modern Arab history that will continue to be so throughout history. On this day in 1967, Israel with direct and indirect American help, invaded three Arab countries (Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) and defeated three armies that were the pillars of...
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Palestine and King Abdulaziz’s grandchildren
Some Saudi princes, the sheikhs of Abu Dhabi and the rulers of Bahrain are racing towards Israel, considering it the gate through which to obtain legitimacy for their authority over their people. They also believe that Israel brings them closer to the White House in Washington, which they believe...
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I urge President Mahmoud Abbas to step down immediately
I wrote an article that was published in Al-Quds Al-Arabi on 18 June 2001 about the city of Jerusalem. “They conspired against you, Jerusalem, the city of the Arabs of the past and present, the home of Jesus son of Mary, and the destination of Prophet Muhammad during his...
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Egypt under Arab nationalism and Al-Sisi
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Arab nationalist Egypt taught us the concepts of nation and citizenship; the concepts of political freedom; and that international companies exploited our petroleum and mineral resources, as well as our territorial waters, including the Suez Canal, Bab Al-Mandab, the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf...
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The Kuwaiti-Yemeni talks and the upcoming catastrophe
The legitimate Yemeni government delegation returned, with serious Qatari mediation, to the talks in Kuwait between the bilateral alliance (Saleh and the Houthis) and the delegation headed by Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdul-Malik al-Mikhlafi. These talks/deliberations have been going for six weeks and they have just gone...