القتل من السماء تاريخ موجز للطيران الحربي ضد المدنيّين

Killing from the Sky: A Brief History of Military Aviation Against Civilians

Bidayat

Churchill proposed mustard gas on Iraqis as "more humane" — killing from the sky began against the colonized before Guernica. Daraa's people answered barrel bombs by drilling for water.

مئوية سايكس بيكو – نقاط على حروف الخرائط والتاريخ

The Sykes-Picot Centenary - Dots on the Letters of Maps and History

Bidayat

The article deconstructs the mythologization of Sykes-Picot, showing it as a prolonged colonial process linked to the Balfour Declaration for seizing Palestine, and reshaping the region based on major powers' interests while denying the majority self-determination.

تقاسيم على مقام الوحدة والتقسيم – تصوّرات عربية لاتفاقية سايكس-پيكو

Variations on Unity and Partition - Arab Perceptions of the Sykes-Picot Agreement

Bidayat

ISIS declared it "broke Sykes-Picot" — as if the borders weren't already a sieve. The agreement has become a myth: one headline suffices to launch partition paranoia.

وعد بلفور – نظرة جديدة

The Balfour Declaration - A New Look

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The Balfour Declaration was not merely a commitment to a national home, but a colonial tool to secure the British Mandate over Palestine and deny the Arab majority its political rights by defining them as "non-Jewish communities".

من يتذكر الاول من ايار؟

Who Remembers the First of May?

As-Safir

Despite political crises, May Day reminds us that the Arab revolutions were founded on workers' issues and rights, and that freedom cannot stand without bread and true democracy.

من يحاسِب؟ ومن يحاسِب مَن؟

Who Holds Accountable? And Who Holds Whom Accountable?

As-Safir

The issue is not merely the overthrow of the ruler, but preventing immunity, exile, and assassination from swallowing the revolutions' first achievement: the right to accountability.

فلسطين تنتفض ضد أوسلو الاقتصادي

Palestine Rises Against Economic Oslo

As-Safir

The Palestinian uprising against austerity reveals that 'economic Oslo' is the foundation of political subservience, and that high prices and unemployment are a cry against this dependency.

الثورات بين السياسي والاجتماعي

Revolutions Between the Political and the Social

As-Safir

They revolted for "bread, freedom, social justice" — and got neoliberal austerity with an Islamic beard.

سوريا: حكومة جديدة – ام مرحلة جديدة

Syria: A New Government - Or a New Phase

As-Safir

Regime change isn't on Washington's agenda — the goal is saving the military structure. Meanwhile, "stray bullets" hit an Israeli car in the occupied Golan. Oh, the waywardness!

الثورات في العام الثالث – الشعب لا زال يريد

Revolutions in the Third Year - The People Still Want

As-Safir

Destroying the Iraqi state in the name of "civil society" unleashed not freedom but sectarian demons — every Arab revolution has two wings: modernist and regressive.

الثورة في شبابها

The Revolution in Its Youth

As-Safir

Libya wasn't a country but one man named Gaddafi — Arab youth offer a third way beyond despotism and theocracy: brazen, fragile, but carrying hope.

انها المؤامرة

It Is the Conspiracy

As-Safir

How comfortable the conspiracy — always exposed, always succeeding. Yassin al-Hafez: instead of "conspiracy" say "interests"; instead of "victim" say "inability."

الدولة اليهودية: ماذا في التسمية الجديدة؟

The Jewish State: What's in the New Name?

As-Safir

From "State of Israel" to "state of the Jewish people" — religious definition replacing majority with sacred right. In another time, the answer: Palestine is Arab.

تشي غيفارا: طوبي الانسان الجديد

Che Guevara: Blessed Be the New Man

As-Safir

This generation suffers poverty of dreams like anemia — both destroy immunity. Che's image is that immunity: an architect of hopes from whose portrait light still radiates.

الوقاحة بما هي سياسة دولية

Impudence as International Policy

As-Safir

Lieberman inverts the Arab initiative: not land for peace but population exchange—legalizing the expulsion of '48 Palestinians. Impudence as international policy.

سلاح النفط في المعركة… الاخرى

The Oil Weapon in the... Other Battle

As-Safir

$60 billion in US jets on the eve of negotiations — the oil weapon no longer targets Israel but buys its protection, changing the combat doctrine.

الانسحاب من العراق

The Withdrawal from Iraq

As-Safir

The US withdrawal from Iraq is a managed process, not an end, linked to a series of diplomatic moves that pressure Palestinians and threaten Iran, all serving Israel's boundless security demands.

هل أن اسرائيل عبء استراتيجي على اميركا؟

Is Israel a Strategic Burden on America?

As-Safir

Israel becomes a burden on America when Arabs become one — when they can force Washington to choose. What an Arab ruler holds back, Israel reaps tenfold. A fairy tale, dear Umm Amr.

مفاوضات واشنطن: وبوسطة ناجي العلي

Washington Negotiations: With Naji al-Ali's Bus

As-Safir

Abbas promised not to negotiate without progress—there was none, yet here he is. Naji al-Ali reminds us: the bus is broken and the road doesn't exist.

عندما تتحول القوة الى ضعف

When Strength Turns into Weakness

As-Safir

Lieberman tells the truth: two years to Judaize Jerusalem, then "population exchange"—expelling '48 Palestinians. The Saudi king begs Obama to revive the initiative—just talk.

دولة اسرائيل «الدفاعية»

The "Defensive" State of Israel

As-Safir

Israel, the "defense" state—settlers arrived and "defended" with massacres and expulsion, naming their army "Defense Forces" while it invades five countries.

من المكبوت الفلسطيني-اللبناني – كيف جرى توزيع المخيّمات الفلسطينية؟

The Palestinian-Lebanese Taboo - How Were the Palestinian Camps Distributed?

As-Safir

The camps were placed near cities "to meet the needs of businessmen who required cheap labor"—Palestinians did not settle where they pleased.

الشرعيات الخارجية على حساب الشرعية الشعبية

External Legitimacies at the Expense of Popular Legitimacy

The Islamist scarecrow justified decades of dictatorship — the uprisings proved jihadism is the exception, and "development reports" explained water with water.