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China, the US and a new scramble for the Gulf
Dec 7, 2022Marwan BisharaChina is Saudi Arabia’s biggest trading partner, and the kingdom is China’s largest supplier of oil, so it’s normal for their leaders to meet and talk. But the…
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The new Jewish state in the Levant: A fanatics-led nuclear power
Nov 4, 2022Marwan BisharaIsrael’s colonial democracy has given birth to a potentially more extreme type of ‘Jewish state’ akin to a more sophisticated and modern version of the ‘Islami…
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Israel’s farcical elections and fictional democracy
Oct 31, 2022Marwan BisharaIsrael’s powerful military and booming economy are undeniable facts, but its much-celebrated democracy is utter fiction. Israel claims to be a Jewish and democ…
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Josep Borrell as Europe’s racist ‘gardener’
Oct 17, 2022Marwan BisharaListening to Europe’s seniormost diplomat Josep Borrell at the inauguration of the new European Diplomatic Academy in Bruges, Belgium, last Thursday, I could o…
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The flaws and fantasies of the new Biden doctrine
Oct 14, 2022Marwan BisharaUnited States President Joe Biden’s newly released National Security Strategy is an amalgam of his predecessors’ doctrines. It claims the role of an indispensa…
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World powers are paralyzing the UN and pulverising the planet
Sep 20, 2022Marwan BisharaThe United Nations General Assembly has opened its 77th session amid urgent global challenges, including environmental disasters, economic instability, basic f…
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Israel’s war on love
Sep 5, 2022Marwan BisharaSarcasm aside, this war on love is no joke. Thousands of people are living in limbo because of Israel’s bans on foreigners in love with Palestinians, many of w…
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A perpetual war for an impossible peace
Aug 31, 2022Marwan BisharaThe scenes of violence and chaos at the heart of Iraq’s capital Baghdad earlier this week were terribly disturbing but hardly surprising. Tensions have been bu…
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The Palestinian misuse, and Zionist abuse, of the Holocaust
Aug 18, 2022Marwan BisharaBoth sides are guilty of invoking the Holocaust to justify their positions. Mahmoud Abbas is only the latest to do so. This article was published by Al Jazeera…
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Why Israel hates the Palestinians so much
Aug 9, 2022Marwan BisharaIsrael’s hatred of the Palestinians is shaped and driven by three basic sentiments. This article was published by Al Jazeera on August 8, 2022. To read more cl…
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Middle East politics: From hyper to hybrid
Jul 21, 2022Marwan BisharaAs a new type of Cold War came to dominate American-Russian relations after the latter’s invasion of Ukraine, major Middle Eastern players are maintaining a di…
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The Masochist in Chief: Biden, Israel and the Middle East
Jul 11, 2022Marwan BisharaPresident Biden has been a stable, consistent, and reliable establishment figure for decades, albeit consistently wrong on Israel and the Middle East, where he…
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MIFTAH publishes factsheet on the human rights violations of the Israeli Occupation
Jun 7, 2022MIFTAHFor 55 long years, the Israeli occupation continues with full impunity and no accountability, due to international inaction and double standards. Despite decad…
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MIFTAH reports on Israeli settler violence against Palestinian women
Apr 5, 2022MIFTAHMIFTAH released a report on Settler Violence against Palestinian Women in the West Bank. It provides a legal analysis of perpetrated violations, based on the p…
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Towards a new Middle East Cold War
Mar 28, 2022Marwan BisharaLike the Ukrainians, the Palestinians are sacrificed on the altar of a new, albeit regional, Cold War, featuring Israel and the UAE camp on one side and the Ir…
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Why Would Hezbollah Never Integrate in the Lebanese Army?
Mar 23, 2022Imad K. HarbHezbollah’s militia cannot be absorbed into the LAF because of its confessional nature, its deeply religious, pan-Islamic ideology, its current outside involve…
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Where refugees become settlers
Mar 22, 2022Raef ZreikFor the Jewish refugees who have been arriving in Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport over the past several weeks, fleeing Putin’s war on Ukraine, any home not under R…
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The world is united on Ukraine, divided on America
Feb 27, 2022Marwan Bishara“In terms of a Cold War… you have the vast majority of the rest of the world in total opposition to what is doing… It’s going to be a cold day for Russia,” ob…
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Israel’s apartheid and the myth of the democratic Jewish state
Feb 8, 2022Marwan BisharaLast week, the London-based Amnesty International joined the New York-based Human Rights Watch and the Jerusalem-based B’Tselem in calling Israel’s abusive and…
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Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity
Feb 1, 2022Amnesty InternationalAmnesty reports that Palestinians are treated as an inferior racial group and systematically deprived of their rights. The investigation details how Israel enf…
