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Although there have been significant international and regional efforts to push for an end to the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia between the government and the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front...
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December 2, 2021
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Dr Daud Abdullah
This year's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was yet another missed opportunity for Britain. There were no messages of support or atonement from Whitehall for the...
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October 7, 2021
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Dr Daud Abdullah
There was a time when Israel's requests for US aid, military or otherwise, were granted spontaneously and unreservedly. That is no longer the case. While the majority members of...
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Israel is finally waking up to the stark reality that it can no longer continue with its forever wars in Gaza. This was the critical message from Foreign Minister Yair...
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August 10, 2021
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Dr Daud Abdullah
The great floods which recently decimated parts of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands were much more than a warning on the perils of climate change. They also revealed some...
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Whitehall is still reverberating from the Hancock affair. It was not the first, and it certainly will not be the last time that a politician gets caught out publicly....
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The British government's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has issued a statement in response to a petition calling for sanctions to be imposed on Israel. The statement ignores the...
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July 24, 2020
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Dr Daud Abdullah
Britain's dramatic change of policy toward China has been underpinned by two charges. That Beijing violated its international treaty obligations in Hong Kong and secondly, that it has engaged...
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July 17, 2020
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Dr Daud Abdullah
A press release issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 14 July described its judgement against Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE as "final, without appeal and...
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June 24, 2020
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Dr Daud Abdullah
Israel's project to annex 40 per cent of the occupied West Bank is hanging in the balance. Without the long-awaited green light from the Trump administration, it will remain...
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June 19, 2020
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Bilal Daher
The US administration has suspended talks with the Israeli government on the plans to annex large parts of the West Bank, due to the dispute over the plan and...
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Article
June 17, 2020
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Dr Daud Abdullah
Anniversaries are usually occasions for reflection and soul searching and the first anniversary since the passing of Mohamed Morsi is no exception. It evokes memories of his life and...
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Nothing new has come out of the virtual visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories by James Cleverly, Britain's Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa. It...
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Donald Trump's refusal to address the legitimate grievances of America's black population has underscored, yet again, why his country does not qualify to be the 'leader of the free...
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December 17, 2019
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Dr Daud Abdullah
Cultural boycott is one of the most effective methods of peaceful protest against institutional racism. It was used successfully against South Africa's apartheid regime in the 1980s. In order...
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In principle, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit scheduled to take place in Saudi Arabia this week should end with a return to normal relations between its six-member states. That's why the invitation extended by Saudi Arabia's King Salman...
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Article
January 2, 2019
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Dr Daud Abdullah
There will be no tears now Israel and the US have withdrawn from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Both countries have undermined the organisation's credibility...
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Article
December 10, 2018
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Dr Daud Abdullah
The Trump administration's failure to secure a UN resolution condemning Hamas and other resistance factions was welcomed by Palestinians as a moral and political victory. They should not, however,...
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Article
November 9, 2018
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Dr Daud Abdullah
The search for Jamal Khashoggi's body is over. After one month of extensive investigations, Turkey's attorney general has finally concluded that the body was dissolved in acid and disposed of...
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October 10, 2018
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Dr Daud Abdullah
As we sat for dinner after the conference, Jamal pointed out to me some of the negative tweets that were posted by his Saudi critics. He, like many compatriots, had been criticial of some Saudi politics – though he loved the people of the region unreservedly
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August 17, 2018
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Dr Daud Abdullah
Desperate people do desperate things. They often discredit themselves and undermine their causes. Jeremy Corbyn's critics fell into this trap when they attempted to smear him by publishing a...
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In a rare act of political intervention, former US First Lady Laura Bush rebuked the Trump administration for its "zero-tolerance" policy toward illegal migrants. Writing in The Washington Post...
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Article
June 19, 2018
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Dr Daud Abdullah
After all the hype the Singapore summit turned out to be damp squib. Apart from the spectacular photo opportunities, the meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un produced no...
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Israelis believe they have never had it this good. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regularly brags about it. He claims that apart from a few non-conformists, most Arab countries have...
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Article
April 19, 2018
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Dr Daud Abdullah
Shortly after the missile attack on Syria, US Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump bragged in his usual pompous way that it was "mission accomplished". In Britain, there was no such display...
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December 22, 2017
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Dr Daud Abdullah
Not for the first time, the free world has stood up for truth and justice in Palestine. The General Assembly's vote against President Trump's decision on Jerusalem was a...
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September 27, 2017
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Dr Daud Abdullah
With the Kurdish referendum to separate from Iraq done and dusted, Israel's ambitions in that country are all but complete. For many years, Israeli strategists and politicians alike have...
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September 13, 2017
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Dr Daud Abdullah
The Twittersphere went into overdrive immediately after the cancellation of the controversial African-Israeli summit. "When you are on an Apartheid selling roadshow Africans don't buy it," tweeted the South...
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Article
August 28, 2017
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Dr Daud Abdullah
Do you remember that sense of excitement on your first day back at school? The delight of being promoted to a new class, the joy of meeting friends old...
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Article
August 21, 2017
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Dr Daud Abdullah
After the humiliating setback at Al-Aqsa Mosque, it was inevitable that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would retaliate. His move has come sooner than expected with the detention of...
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August 14, 2017
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Dr Daud Abdullah
In August 2013, Egyptian forces killed more than a 1000 protesters during a sit-in at Cairo’s Rabaa square
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August 7, 2017
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Dr Daud Abdullah
Media leaks from within the White House are nothing new; all US administrations have had to deal with them. In the case of the Trump presidency, however, the shadowy...