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Dr. As’ad Abu Khalil on the Saudi Lobby Usually one speaks comically of the Arab lobby in Washington, D.C.. Since the oil boom in the 1970s, various Arab-American businesspeople and crooks traveled to the Middle East offering their services to Gulf regimes and promising—in return for large sums of money—to ...

Among the worst of criminals and transgressors are murderers – those who take away the life of innocent human beings. Among this category of murderers, the worst of them are those who kill ruthlessly and shed the blood of a huge fraction of people in a cold-blooded and brutal manner.  ...

Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas rocket and mortar fire. But on television and radio and in newspapers, Israeli government spokesmen such as Mark ...

The relentless Israeli assault on Gaza has yet to stop. But even as the death toll has now surpassed 1,600, the Islamic State (IS) and its newly established “caliphate” has not moved a muscle, nor is it expected to do so anytime soon. So why is IS – formerly known ...

It may seem a bit odd to say this now with the Palestinian suffering at its peak, but it is becoming increasingly clear that Israel has lost this war, writes Ibrahim Khan. Here are ten key reasons why: 1. Israel has never had international public support – but this time they’ve ...

Letter from Norwegian hero doctor who is in Gaza right now Dr. Mads Gilbert MD PhD Dearest friends – The last night was extreme. The “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying – all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all ...

Co-authored by Abbas Kadhim* and Luay Al Khatteeb** Before the security collapse in Mosul, the conventional wisdom among Iraq experts was that Iraq had two options to guarantee security when faced with challenges above the capacity of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF): the United States and Iran. Following this thinking, ...

The macabre truth is that Israeli life is deemed by the western media to be worth more than a Palestinian life – this is the hierarchy of death at work “Israel under renewed Hamas attack”: this was last night’s BBC headlineon the escalating bloodshed in Gaza. It is as perverse as ...

As tragedy and uninterrupted terror strikes the besieged Palestinian population once more, Western media outlets have been busy producing and presenting articles and television reports on the events taking place. These “news reports” – for the lack of a better terminology – are presented as factual and true, objective and ...

With the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Nusra Front in control of several oil fields in Syria, the two radical Islamist groups entered the “oil exporters’ club,” with Western enablement. This, in addition to the closely anticipated hydrocarbon discoveries in Syria’s territorial waters and other pertinent developments, ...