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Articles of the author Azmi Bishara
The Great Egyptian Revolution
The Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions heralded a new Arab era in which it is possible to couple freedom and social rights, sovereignty and citizenship. Arab regimes will not deride their populations anymore; and they will be facing a choice between (...)

10 - 02 - 2011
The Arabs and Turkey
What Arabs who look admiringly to Ankara do not understand is that Turkey's leaders act in concordance with Turkish public sentiment, not to save Arab dignity, writes Azmi Bishara There is something in the Arab public space that hampers an objective (...)

08 - 07 - 2010
From Diaspora to fragmentation
Current negotiations calling into question the right to return of the Palestinian refugees constitute the fragmentation of the Palestinian national cause and a sword hanging over the heads of the Palestinian refugees, writes Azmi Bishara Refugees (...)

24 - 06 - 2010
'We want to live'
Salam Fayyad's plans for Palestine and the Palestinians are nought but a contrived folk festival where the occupied bow to their oppressors, writes Azmi Bishara Congratulating Israel on its "independence", or creation, if you will, is equivalent to (...)

13 - 05 - 2010
An Arab view on Polish loss
The continuity of government is a function of institutions, writes Azmi Bishara On 11 April the media expressed the shock widely felt on an incident that until then belonged to the realm of fiction more than fact. That day a Polish plane crashed in (...)

29 - 04 - 2010
A brief note on Jerusalem
Palestinian and Arab religious, national and resistance discourse should not narrowly focus on Jerusalem but rather see through Jerusalem the problem of the whole of Palestine, writes Azmi Bishara Historiography, when it claims to be scientific, (...)

22 - 04 - 2010
Possibilities of war: the Levant
Could a regional war erupt on fronts other than Iran, such as Lebanon or Gaza? Azmi Bishara weighs the evidence It has been demonstrated that the war on Gaza, as waged within the framework of the Egyptian and Israeli borders with the Strip, is (...)

11 - 03 - 2010
Possibilities of war: Iran
Despite how alarming the prospect of a nuclear Iran might be to Washington, enhancing sanctions or authorising pre-emptive strikes could lead to an all-out war the US might lose, writes Azmi Bishara The Obama administration's reappointment of the (...)

04 - 03 - 2010
An honourable exit
Is there any way for the Palestinian Authority to escape its current predicament? Yes, says Azmi Bishara, but only if long bankrupt strategies are jettisoned once and for all The consequences of Netanyahu's election have gradually hit home, as has (...)

10 - 12 - 2009
Elections under siege
Abbas's acceptance of the Egyptian-mediated reconciliation deal with Hamas is only because that deal presents new ways for him to destroy his opponents, writes Azmi Bishara If the Palestinian resistance factions are to agree to the Egyptian-brokered (...)

29 - 10 - 2009
Scandal in the raw
Vaunting themselves as peers of Israel, Ramallah's leaders and their lackeys in Geneva are a disgrace to the Palestinian national struggle and are leading the Palestinian people to disaster, writes Azmi Bishara The decision to behave in Geneva like (...)

15 - 10 - 2009
The game of nations
Without citizenship and a developed national consciousness, what has happened to Iran would explode Arab societies if the West chose to bring such intense meddling there, writes Azmi Bishara There is a difference between the outlook of a secular (...)

02 - 07 - 2009
An alternative reading
Azmi Bishara examines the causes and ramifications of post-election unrest in Iran Iran does not just have an authoritarian system of government, it has a totalitarian one. It is powerful, highly centralised, with sophisticated administrative and (...)

25 - 06 - 2009
Loyalty to racism
Israel's attempt to legislate loyalty to the Jewish state is proof of the failure of the Zionist/colonial project of Israelification, writes Azmi Bishara What is behind the latest wave of legislative proposals flooding the Knesset agenda? I refer (...)

18 - 06 - 2009
From Cairo with love
The Arabs applauded Bush's vision of a Palestinian state before the end of his term in office. Why expect anything better from Obama, asks Azmi Bishara The US president has announced that he is going to address the Islamic world. Let's listen to (...)

11 - 06 - 2009
Toothless counsel
Opposition forces have been reduced by Arab regimes to servile advice givers, neglecting the aspirations of the people whose interests they exist to better defend, writes Azmi Bishara Some Arab opposition forces criticise this regime or that for (...)

28 - 05 - 2009
Delegation and representation
Dialogue between religions does not exist; only dialogue between individual perceptions delegated, ostensibly, to represent all, writes Azmi Bishara As the conflict subsided between international political systems bearing ideological torches the (...)

21 - 05 - 2009
The subversion of liberation
When leaders in struggle confuse themselves with recognition of the rights of the people they claim to defend, everyone suffers, including the national cause, writes Azmi Bishara The Scottish philosophers of the Enlightenment, from Ferguson through (...)

14 - 05 - 2009
New US thinking
Azmi Bishara analyses the direction of Washington's diplomatic offensive across the region We had thought that the train of events from the Israeli invasion of Lebanon to its invasion of Gaza, the impression these events created in people's minds (...)

19 - 03 - 2009
Suing for war crimes
Any recourse to international law in seeking to bring Israeli officials to book must be carefully considered, writes Azmi Bishara It is not my intention to discuss the definitions of resistance, the legitimacy of resistance or the laws of war in (...)

05 - 03 - 2009
Stay in the street
The protest movement against Israel must be sustained, for Obama is not going to change the essence of America's Middle East course, writes Azmi Bishara I will sum up the transition in US foreign policy as follows: in the Bush era, since September (...)

05 - 02 - 2009
Hope and change
'Change is happening in America. It is happening because many Americans are sick and tired of the policies their administration has pursued for the last eight years. It is happening because Americans are fed up with the arrogance of power, (...)

13 - 11 - 2008
Two observations
National unity among Palestinians should serve the national project of resistance and liberation, not set the stage for meaningless, parochial power sharing, writes Azmi Bishara 1. If there's national unity, why have elections? If Palestinian (...)

30 - 10 - 2008
Arabs out of step
While other powers around the world reassert their national interest against a United States that no longer holds universal promise, the Arabs do not, writes Azmi Bishara in the final instalment of a four-part analysis of the world after Bush There (...)

23 - 10 - 2008
The supposed new Cold War
In the third of a four-part series on the world after Bush, Azmi Bishara sees discord emerging, but no universal blueprint that would ground a new Cold War between the West and the rest International politics will have entered a new phase after (...)

16 - 10 - 2008
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