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Articles tagged: ‘Israel’
Hezbollah and the Beirut blast probe
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailHezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah will go to any lengths to prevent the truth about the 4 August 2020 Beirut harbour blast emerging into the light.
Saudi school texts: cleaning up the act
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailAfter years of promising, and failing, to remove vicious antisemitism and other hateful material from school curriculum, the Saudis are finally scoring good grades ridding texts of intolerance, ignorance and prejudice.
Prince Turki and the Taliban
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailFew outside Afghanistan know the Taliban as well as Prince Turki Al Faisal and at his recent book launch he called for both caution in dealing with them and compassion for the Afghan people they once again rule over.
China headaches for Iran Deal
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailWhile the Gulf states watch with nervous apprehension as President Biden tries to revive the nuclear deal, China is shattering the sanctions and giving Iran an economic lifeline that could wreck hopes for a renewed JCPOA.
Aftershocks: Saudi Arabia and America’s grand debacle in Afghanistan
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailThe House of Saud is right to feel uneasy about what the US withdrawal from Afghanistan means for the security of their rule.
Semiramis Revisited: a story of the Nakba
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailThe 1948 bombing of a hotel in an Arab neighbourhood of Jerusalem killed 24 civilians and drove the community out; a descendent of one of those forced to flee investigates a largely forgotten act of ethnic cleansing.
The Beirut explosion: are Israel and Hezbollah responsible?
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailOn the one year anniversary of the Beirut port explosion, no conclusions have been reached as to what caused it but an Arab Digest member who witnessed the explosion believes that both the Israelis and Hezbollah are to blame. Meanwhile a significant detail has emerged about the amount of ammonium nitrate stored in the port at the time of the blast.
Tom Barrack, the UAE and Ambassador al-Otaiba
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailThe indictment of Thomas Barrack has shed significant light on the UAE’s unorthodox efforts to influence American foreign policy in the Middle East before and during the Trump presidency.
The Beirut explosion: are Israel and Hezbollah responsible?
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailNearly a year on from the Beirut port explosion, no conclusions have been reached as to what caused it but an Arab Digest member who witnessed the explosion believes that both the Israelis and Hezbollah are to blame.