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Items by Wael Qandil
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Five years of the Israeli Spring
More than eight hundred martyrs were killed at the hands of the Hosni Mubarak regime during the events of the war on the January 2011 revolution. Another 3,000 were martyred during the most violent phase of the military regime’s war on the revolution, which began in June 2013. This...
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Compromising on the resistance
It remains difficult to understand that the Hamas resistance seems satisfied and responsive to the so-called Egyptian role in the proposed scenarios for a settlement in Gaza. The issue becomes even more difficult in light of the disclosure of yet another secret meeting, held in Egypt, between Benjamin Netanyahu,...
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The tyrant’s throne
What encouraged Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi to use his recent speeches to declare the intensification of his tyranny and oppression? What gave the Egyptian President the reassurance that the so-called humanitarian conscience, and the international community, would continue to support him in his path to crush Egypt’s state, and its...
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Drying up the sources of Egyptian press
In short, they want to destroy the bridges between the media and the ordinary citizen, considering the citizens to be the private property of the ruling authority. No one is allowed to talk to, approach them, or address their concerns and aspirations in any way. This is what Abdel...
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Does the ‘deal of the century’ include President Morsi?
This seasonal state of political frenzy and arrogant brazenness against the captive President Mohamed Morsi is neither strange nor new. It erupts at this time of year, every year, in a manner similar to seasonal variations in the prevalence of mental illness. However, what is new this year is...
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Sudan is there for Egypt and Sisi for Israel
Following the open foulness and chauvinism expressed by Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s state media against Sudan’s government and people, one is struck by an astonishing historical irony. Perhaps the only street in an Arab capital city that bears the name of two countries together is the Egypt and Sudan Street,...
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Leaks or messages that have already been received?
Leaked tapes reveal Egypt's support for Trump's Jerusalem decision...
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You have Trump’s promise and we have Ahed Tamimi
Those who are outraged by the logo of any Qatari channel are not at all angered by Hebrew letters on the bag of a Zionist sneaking into the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina on a Saudi visa. Among them, too, are those who look at the image of the fierce...
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Freedom for Sisi and death to the masses
It is rare for a tyrannical government, which always exercises brutality and oppressive control over the people at all times, to inform the masses that the interior and defence ministers were targeted with a missile attack in Sinai. The state media outlets overly covered the story, providing detailed statements...
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Netanyahu's bright idea of moderation
In August 2014, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid the cornerstone for the “moderation” project. A little less than three years later, the Saudi monarch, the US president and their followers cut the tape in a boisterous opening ceremony in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh. The project organisers’...
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Al-Sisi mandates the people to protect him from the terrorism that he has created
For the sake of argument I will assume that Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi actually obtained on that abominable day in July 2013 what he described as a mandate to combat “potential violence and terrorism.” I will overlook the fact that what happened next in Egypt was and remains a political...
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How many bags of money would it take to sell Egypt?
Egypt sold, Saudi Arabia bought, and the goods went to Israel with the full approval of the seller, Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi and the buyer, Mohammad Bin Salman. To sum up the Tiran and Sanafir islands deal, Israel wanted the islands outside of Egypt’s sovereignty, and Al-Sisi wanted to make...
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In Al-Sisi’s defence
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi took over the political authority in Egypt, seized religious authority for himself, and has dominated the judicial authority. All that is left for him to do is to gain possession of fate. Al-Sisi is neither Egypt’s destiny nor fate; he is part of a very precisely...
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ElBaradei, the Brotherhood and trapping elephants in a napkin
When he was appointed vice president of Egypt after the military coup in 2013, Dr Mohamed ElBaradei denied any coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood during the January 2011 revolution. During the third part of his recent interview with Alaraby TV, ElBaradei was asked, “Didn’t you coordinate with the Brotherhood...