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Chris Doyle
Chris Doyle is director of the London-based Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU). He has worked with the council since 1993 after graduating with a first class honors degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Exeter University. He has organized and accompanied numerous British parliamentary delegations to Arab countries.
Twitter: @Doylech
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Have mass deportations become a vote-winning ticket in the UK?
What to make of a British political leader who pledges to deport 600,000 immigrants in his first term? That is 120,000 people a year. This would even include doing a deal with the Taliban, a movement the UK was fighting against for so many years, to facilitate deportations to Afghanistan.
Netanyahu’s Gaza City plan a high-stakes risk
When anyone looks at the jungle of rubble, twisted metal and collapsed buildings that constitute the graveyard of Palestinian existence in the small but overcrowded strip of land called Gaza, one has to wonder who would want to resurrect it.
Shifting narrative: Why more Israelis are using the G-word
To what extent is the accusation that Israel has been perpetrating a genocide in Gaza bedding in and becoming a more mainstream part of the narrative? Perhaps more intriguingly, to what extent is this question being debated in Israel itself?
Why Macron’s recognition move is significant
Sacre bleu. France will recognize a state of Palestine. Is this a shock or not something to get worked up about? This was posted on social media by President Emmanuel Macron last Thursday. He said he would formalize recognition at the UN General Assembly in September.
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