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Items by Mohammad Ayesh
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Iran, Israel and foolish Arabs
The idea that confronting Iran requires normalisation and an alliance with Israel is purely Israeli in origin and only serves the agenda of the occupation state, which invests all events in the region and, indeed, around the world, with its own best interests. Israel’s most recent success in this...
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Why Hamas needs Iran
The relationship between Hamas and Iran has been the subject of widespread controversy for years both within the movement and among the Palestinian people. This controversy has increased in recent years, when the relationship between the two sides has witnessed a collapse or deterioration due to the conflict in Syria and...
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Israel’s failure in Gaza
The failed Israeli operation that targeted Hamas members on Sunday evening confirms that Israel is not sparing any opportunity and is not risking losing any target, regardless of the political situation. It does not care if the truce collapses or survives and it does not care about any international...
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Gazans in Jordan
Every Gazan who lives in Jordan must pay $300 to renew their passport. They must also pay for their medical treatment, whether they visit a government or private hospital, and even pay for their children’s school education if the UNRWA shuts down its facilities or reduces its services. Furthermore,...
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The madness of tyranny and what comes after
The unprecedented wave of repression and tyranny that the Arab world is currently witnessing, which has reached the level of blind brutality, cannot be a good thing for the region. Every action has a reaction, and what we are witnessing now in the region are the acts that we...
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Why the Arabs like Erdogan
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is popular in the Arab world, from West to East, perhaps even more so than he is within Turkey itself. The Arabs see Erdogan as a leader of the Ummah, not only the President of Turkey. Many have drowned in debate and questions about the...
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Israel’s invasion of the Arab capitals
An Israeli delegation will visit the Kingdom of Bahrain on Sunday, adding a new link to the chain of Arab normalisation with Israel. This is occurring at a time when Arab countries are being isolated from their national surroundings and depth, including the Palestinian Authority, which is suffering from...
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The PLO and the need for reform
The majority of members of the Palestinian National Council who met in Ramallah last week are over 60 or 70 years old. Participants in the March of Return in the Gaza Strip, however, are mostly born in the new millennium, and are not more than 20 years old. This...
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An urgent Palestinian rescue plan is needed
Palestinians need a comprehensive national rescue plan that goes beyond existing institutions with all their disputes and contradictions, because threats facing them now are much greater than the philosophical differences with which some are preoccupied. As such, the meeting of the Palestinian National Council scheduled for the end of...
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How Israel benefitted from terrorism
In September of every year, the attacks on New York and Washington and the wave of terror that the world witnessed after that date are brought back to the forefront of our minds. Israel was the only beneficiary from the 9/11 attacks. It is also the biggest beneficiary from...
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Israel benefits from our catastrophes
A well-known and prestigious Israeli magazine specialising in military affairs recently confirmed that the current Gulf crisis would end with major Israeli gains, exactly like the gains Tel Aviv obtained from the September 11 2001 attacks. The magazine also considered the escalation of the political conflict in the region...
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What is Libya’s role in the terrorism that’s hit Egypt?
What is the role of Libya, particularly the city of Derna, in the terrorist operations that are currently taking place in Egypt? Why does the Egyptian army want to strike Libyan sites rather than Daesh bases in the Sinai dessert? Why is the response not a desire to target...
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Prisoners: Continued perseverance and the need for solidarity
When this article is published in Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, the Palestinian prisoners will have completed an entire month on hunger strike. They are surviving on water and salt alone. The Palestinian people will have also completed 69 years waiting for UN Resolution 194 stipulating the return of Palestinian refugees...
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Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are suffering in Jordan
Every Palestinian of Gazan origin residing in Jordan must pay $300 every two years to renew their temporary passport. This is instead of the $35 fee that they used to pay. Possessing a temporary Jordanian passport now costs $150 a year, or $13 a month, which is roughly equivalent...
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Palestinians abroad and their important role in the national project
Some Palestinians assume that the resolution of the conflict with the Israeli occupation must be by force alone and that we are facing a battle in the traditional and superficial sense. Based on this belief, if power alone is available, then the battle can be resolved, the balances of...
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Egyptian differences and the anniversary of the January Revolution
For the third year in a row, Egypt’s revolutionary forces are preoccupied by suspicious internal differences that tend to appear just weeks before each anniversary of the 2011 January Revolution. This is the season of calls for the renewal of the revolution in Egypt, a time that the post-revolution...
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Tunisia, victims of tyranny and the need to account
The testimonies delivered publicly for the first time by victims of the regime of tyranny in Tunisia reveal an “underworld” in the Arab world that is not spoken of and is known to few. It also reveals the magnitude of organised crime that some Arab regimes practice against their...
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What are the implications of floating the Egyptian pound?
The Central Bank in Egypt had no other option but to move the Egyptian pound to a free market exchange rate with other currencies. The alternative was to lower its price voluntarily while maintaining the black market and being unable to secure required hard foreign currency reserves. Thus, a...
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Elections in Palestine are meaningless
The elections which are due to take place at the start of October in the Palestinian territories are meaningless. There is no need for these elections because they are taking place between two sides for which these elections hold absolutely no meaning, no flavour or significance. On the contrary,...