Brian Whitaker
@Brian_Whit
Journalist, former Middle East editor of the Guardian newspaper. Author of 'Arabs Without God: Atheism and Freedom of Belief in the Middle East'.
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http://www.al-bab.com 20-02-2009 15:41:03
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I hate to disagree with @potus Biden but he is falling for Bibi’s spin and shticks. Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו is selling what he disparagingly refers to as a “state minus,” which is not an independent Palestinian state at all. It’s minus sovereignty, minus independence, minus territorial…
The #HouthiMilitia , the de facto authority in northern #Yemen ,has announced that #Fatma_al_Arwali will be executed on 21 February.Human rights organisations have called her trial and sentencing a sham.Attached is amnesty background story on her on her case amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
A YouGov poll commissioned by Medical Aid for Palestinians & @caabu highlights overwhelming level of public support for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza - 71% of the British public believe there definitely (48%) or probably (23%) should be an immediate ceasefire caabu.org/news/press-rel…
My latest with Foreign Policy.
It's time to face reality:
US Middle East policy has failed.
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foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/11/isr…
With 'Trump and Epstein' & 'Epstein Island' trending on this platform, I want to draw attention to Brian Whitaker's recent New Lines Magazine article diagnosing the deep, dark ideological maladies and conspiratorial phantasmagoria of the American Right. MUST read.
newlinesmag.com/argument/unsui…