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Apr 05 2024 
Iranian Retaliation: the First Domino
Israel is provoking an expanded regional war that it cannot win
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
When and how will Iran retaliate?
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a man of few words. When he publicly threatens a harsh response to Israel’s attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus — which killed seven people including… Continue reading
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Mar 25 2024 
Fallout from Moscow’s Crocus City Hall
Was the US behind the Moscow terror attack? The US and Ukraine will pay a high price. And that, I have been reliably informed, will extend to our Arab world.
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
The Ukraine war could be poised to take a dramatic new turn
The terrorist operation in Moscow’s Crocus City Hall… Continue reading -
Mar 21 2024 
Humiliating the US President
Netanyahu’s slap to Biden. The humiliated US president will continue arming Israel despite his show of dissent
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
Tuesday’s early morning Israeli airstrikes on Rafah — which killed 14 people, including three women and three children — were Benjamin Netanyahu’s reply to Joe Biden’s request, in a phone conversation the… Continue reading
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Feb 26 2024 
Yemen’s fearless escalation
Yemen’s fearless escalation
Ansarullah challenge Egypt’s compliance with Israeli Gaza aid curbs
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm
While many Arab governments that possess hundreds of tanks and warplanes have been passively watching Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the Yemeni government in Sanaa — though exhausted by eight years of war and suffocating blockade — has… Continue reading
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Feb 11 2024 
Supplying Israel while it starves Gaza
The trade corridor amounts to active Arab collusion in the genocidal war
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm
While Yemen gets pummelled by US and British airstrikes for trying to close the Red Sea to Israeli shipping, other Arab countries have been conspiring to sabotage its valiant effort to support the Palestinians in the Gaza… Continue reading
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Feb 03 2024 
Western ‘values’ sink to a new low
Defunding UNRWA: US and Western ‘values’ sink to a new low
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm
Before discussing the sadistic and inhuman attack on UNRWA led by the US and some of its Western clients based on politicised Israeli allegations, I must point out that my own schooling and healthcare and the survival of… Continue reading
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Jan 22 2024 
Washington’s entanglement in Yemen
The US will regret being lured into multiple Middle East wars on Israel’s behalf
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
Israel’s success in luring the Biden administration into multiple wars on its behalf, especially in Gaza, Iraq, and Yemen, will inevitably bleed the US politically, financially, and militarily and erode not only its global standing… Continue reading
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Jan 06 2024 
Will the US attack Yemen?
Washington and its allies will regret it if they make good on their threats
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm
In its all-out defence of Israel’s interests and support for its three-month-old war of extermination on the Gaza Strip, the US is rapidly heading into a military trap laid by the Yemenis in the Arabian… Continue reading
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Jan 04 2024 
Stoking the fires of regional war
Israel is trying to trigger a wider conflict to bring in the US
By Abdel Bari Atwan via Rai Al Youm
Israel’s assassination of Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in a drone strike in Beirut on Tuesday evening, coming just days after it killed Iranian general Reza Mousavi in Damascus and amid its ongoing war of extermination… Continue reading
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Dec 21 2023 
Abdel Bari Atwan: Yemen & Hamas
YEMEN AND THE WAR ON GAZAHow will the US respond to the Houthi challenge to Israeli shipping?
By Abdel Bari Atwan via Rai Al Youm
By intercepting Israeli shipping and engaging US and French naval vessels in the Red Sea, Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has done more than embarrass the majority of Arab governments and armies that… Continue reading
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Dec 13 2023 
Israel isn’t winning
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm
Why the US vetoed a Gaza Strip cease-fire
To understand the real reason the US vetoed the UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, I refer you to Saturday’s rare report in Yediot Ahronoth about the unprecedented numbers of casualties sustained by the Israel military… Continue reading
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Dec 03 2023 
Rolling out the red carpet
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
Arab states are colluding in the US/Israeli war on Palestinian resistance.
It was a disgrace for Arab leaders to attend the Cop28 conference in Dubai alongside Israel’s president Isaac Herzog while it wages a genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip that has claimed the lives of at least 15,000 innocent… Continue reading
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Nov 26 2023 
Palestine’s New Leadership
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
“Israel’s agreement to negotiate prisoner swaps with Hamas is a mark of defeat.”
It may be premature to make a definitive evaluation of the first 50 days of the Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip, or foresee what will happen the day after the four-day truce that began on… Continue reading
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