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Watch this: ElBaradei on Iran - Watch this interview with Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, former Vice President of Egypt and former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in...
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Dublin denies freedom to students protesting against genocide - Why has an Irish university entered new research partnerships with Israel?3 hours ago
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Twitter et Facebook obéissent au doigt et à l'oeil aux autorités d'occupation - Tweet bloqués : Twiter « collabore avec Israël dans la censure des messages venus de l'extérieur ». Dans ce qui est la dernière étape de la collaboration ...9 years ago
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Christian Zionists: A Fifth Column? - "President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark His return to Earth"7 hours ago
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بصمات أصابع - حبيبتي رُغم أننا في نفس القارب نهاياتُ القصصِ أخذتْ تختلف أسبقُكِ ربما أو نُواصلُ معا طرقٌ يتحسّسُ الجسدُ فيه المزيدَ من الجسد قصدتُ الأرميني العجوز في م...
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La main pense - Au Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole, on a pu voir récemment « Le verre au-delà de la matière », une exposition qui restitue...3 days ago
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Meet Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura, Honduras’s new Christian Zionist president of Palestinian descent, who is looking to deepen ties with Israel - [image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting Honduran President Nasry "Tito" Asfura on January 18, 2026. (Photo: Roi Avraham, GPO)]Honduras's ...1 day ago
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Returning to Hafiz al-Assad’s Syria: Bashar Heads Back to the Future in 2020 - President Bashar al-Assad was the main catalyst for reform in Syria’s economy and to a lesser degree in its political institutions before the 2011 uprisi...5 years ago
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Will US global hegemony last for another century? - My weekly article for Al-Akhbar: "Will US global hegemony last for anther century"? (A critical review of Michael Beckley's new book from Cornell Universi...7 years ago
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Iran: US Boots on the Ground, Kharg Island Takeover? - As the Trump-Netanyahu war of aggression enters its fourth week, the conflict appears to be escalating incrementally but The post Iran: US Boots on the Gr...1 day ago
About me
- Abu Pessoptimist
- This blogname was derived from a satiric Arabic novel by the Palestinian Israeli Emile Habiby. In the ''The Secret Life of Saeed The Pessoptimist'' he uses absurdism as a weapon against the (ir)realities of daily life in Palestine/Israel. I consider it to be an example for how events in Israel/Palestine best can be approached. The subtitle is from a book by Dutch author Renate Rubinstein. In a way that is also still my motto. My real name is Martin (Maarten Jan) Hijmans. I've been covering the ME since 1977 and have been a correspondent in Cairo. In 2018, I concluded the study 'Arabic language and culture' at the University of Amsterdam. I started 'Abu Pessoptimist' in January 2009 out of anger about the onslaught of that month in Gaza. The other blog, The Pessoptimist, is meant to be a sister version in English. (En voor de Nederlandstaligen: ik wilde in november 2009 een tweede blog in het Engels beginnen en ontdekte te laat dat als je één account hebt, een profiel dan meteen ook voor allebei de blogs geldt. Vandaar dat het nu ineens in het Engels is... So sorry.)
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Renate Rubinstein
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