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Articles of the author Nicola Nasser
Mladenov is persona non grata
The PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) did not object to the appointment of new UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process Nikolay Mladenov, although he was described by Tayseer Khaled, a member of the PLO's Executive Committee, (...)

18 - 02 - 2015
The endgame of the US Islamic State strategy
Dismantling what the former US President George W Bush once described as the Syria-Iran component of the “axis of evil”, or interrupting in Iraq the geographical contiguity of what King Abdullah II of Jordan once described as the “Shia crescent”, (...)

04 - 12 - 2014
Arafat and Gaza bombs
It is ironic that the annual commemoration of the death of Yasser Arafat should turn into an occasion for rekindling the flames of internal strife. This was clearly the aim of last week's bombings that targeted the homes of Fatah leaders, as well as (...)

19 - 11 - 2014
US rejects Abbas's plan
Washington's response to the speech that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas delivered at the UN General Assembly Friday confirms that the bilateral Palestinian-US relationship is heading for stormy times. The US, which opposed (...)

01 - 10 - 2014
The second tier of occupation
On 12 October, Cairo is due to host a conference, sponsored and chaired by Egypt and Norway, of international and Arab donors for the reconstruction of Gaza. This is their ostensible aim. But the reasons that the donors cited for not fulfilling (...)

16 - 09 - 2014
Abbas' spurious charges
President Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah movement, which he commands, have unleashed a media campaign against Hamas and the resistance. If pressure from the Palestinian public fails to stop the campaign, Abbas may achieve politically what Israel failed (...)

10 - 09 - 2014
Unity as strategy
Having survived Israel's third major war on the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians must now keep their eyes on what really matters — namely, their unity. Israel wants the same thing now as it did before the hostilities, for President Mahmoud Abbas to (...)

03 - 09 - 2014
Antagonising Palestinians: Australia's new policy
Reacting to antagonised Palestinian snowballing protests to her government's decision on 5 June to reverse a 47-year-old bipartisan consensus on describing East Jerusalem as “occupied,” Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on 13 June denied any (...)

25 - 06 - 2014
Privatisation of Iraqi oil derailed by fighting
The unfolding collapse of the US proxy government in Baghdad has cut short a process of legalising the denationalisation of the hydro-carbon industry in Iraq, which became within reach with the latest electoral victory of the Iraqi premier since (...)

21 - 06 - 2014
Eight papal messages in Palestine
Pope Francis's “pilgrimage” to the Holy Land last week proved to be an unbalanced mission impossible. The pontiff failed to strike a balance of neutrality between contradictory and irreconcilable binaries like divinity and earth, religion and (...)

11 - 06 - 2014
One-sided responsibility in Syria
Reports abound by international organisations on the responsibility of the Syrian government for the human rights violations in the ongoing conflict in Syria, now in its fourth year, but the responsibility of the insurgents has been kept away from (...)

28 - 05 - 2014
Israel's Asian pivot a cost to Arabs
Israel has carved economic inroads into Asia deep enough to compromise traditional Asian political support for Arabs. If this trend continues, the growing economic Israeli-Asian relations could in no time translate into political ties that would (...)

13 - 05 - 2014
Al-Assad is there to stay
Long gone are the days when the US-led so-called “Friends of Syria” could plausibly claim that two thirds of Syria was controlled by rebel forces, that the Syrian capital Damascus was under siege and its fall was just a matter of time, and that the (...)

23 - 04 - 2014
Washaha killing exposes Israeli lies
In the Palestinian West Bank town of Birzeit early 27 February, the Israeli occupation army acted determinedly, under the media spotlight, to feed Amnesty International with a showcase study to vindicate the report it released only hours earlier, (...)

12 - 03 - 2014
Palestine's brave man of peace
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stands now at a crossroads of his people's national struggle for liberation and independence, as well as of his political career, cornered between the rock of his own constituency's will and the hard place of the (...)

12 - 02 - 2014
Who is to blame for the Syrian civilian plight?
Creating a humanitarian crisis in Syria, whether real or fabricated, and holding the Syrian government responsible for it as a casus belli for foreign military intervention under the UN's 2005 so-called “Responsibility to Protect” initiative was (...)

11 - 12 - 2013
How Obama can earn his Nobel Prize
Indeed, US President Barack Obama has gone a long way to earn his Nobel Peace Prize, which was prospectively awarded in 2009 to the 44th president of the United States while less than eight months in office. However, to “feel that I deserve” the (...)

04 - 12 - 2013
Erdogan's hidden agenda
The eruption of the Syrian conflict early in 2011 heralded the demise of Turkey's officially pronounced strategy of “zero problems with neighbours”, but more importantly, it revealed a “hidden agenda” in Turkish foreign policy under the government (...)

26 - 11 - 2013
Libya almost imploding, status quo unsustainable
More than two years on since the “revolution” of 16 February 2011, the security crisis in Libya is exacerbating by the day, threatening an implosion charged with potential and realistic risks to the geopolitical unity of the Arab North African (...)

19 - 11 - 2013
Shortest path to peace in Syria
Because “defensive alliances which have fixed and limited objectives are often more durable,” the “Syria-Iran alliance has survived” more than three decades of unwavering and insistent US-led military, economic, diplomatic and media campaign to (...)

17 - 09 - 2013
Amman's shaky claims to neutrality
Located at the crossroads of several regional crises, including the Palestinian-Israeli and Iraqi conflicts, Jordan has been in the eye of the Syrian storm for more than 30 months and managed to navigate safely so far. But the reportedly imminent US (...)

10 - 09 - 2013
The Syrian chemical weapons subterfuge
US Secretary of State John Kerry on 26 August removed the sword of alleged Syrian chemical weapons from its sheath and let the snowball of this subterfuge for military aggression on Syria roll unchecked, raising the stakes from asking whether “it (...)

04 - 09 - 2013
The Syrian chemical weapons subterfuge
US Secretary of State John Kerry on 26 August removed the sword of alleged Syrian chemical weapons from its sheath and let the snowball of this subterfuge for military aggression on Syria roll unchecked, raising the stakes from asking whether “it (...)

04 - 09 - 2013
Egypt's foreign relations on a tightrope
The internal crisis in Egypt has brought the country to its most critical foreign relations test since these relations were shaped by the US-sponsored Camp David Accords and the peace treaty with Israel in 1979. An indicator are warnings against (...)

27 - 08 - 2013
Immutable bonds
Gaza will remain a matter of national security for Egypt. And regardless of who is in charge in Gaza, Egypt will also remain a strategic asset for Gaza, a lifeline for its people, and a mainstay of its peace and stability. These are the irreversible (...)

17 - 07 - 2013
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