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Chris Doyle

@chris-doyle.bsky.social
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Commentator on Middle East, international politics & Director of @Caabu Council for Arab-British Understanding. (Views mine alone)

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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Apparently it would "very easy, quick, simple and safe" for NATO allies to secure the strait Hormuz
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
How does this inane, vacuous, morally disgraceful, genocide denial ever get published? It is up there with Gove saying the IDF should get a Nobel Peace Prize. Israel gets away with war crimes, crimes against humanity, occupation of land for decades and genocide.
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Officially 67,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza since October 2023, probably many more. 83% were civilian acc to Israeli military's own data - so 75 civilians killed every day on average. Yet media & political comment focussed overwhelmingly on 20 living Israeli hostages, 28 dead.
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The Trump comprehesive plan for Gaza is anything but. It is not comprehensive, but dangerously vague. It is not a plan - but a series of points. It is not for Gaza or Palestinians but for Netanyahu. 1/
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Macron: "And today working together in order to recognise the state of Palestine.... is the only path to peace." Cue: Clapping from Starmer, Davey and others, but not Kemi Badenoch.
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Outrageous from @thetimes.com carrying an Oped coauthored by a man wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the ICC. (If you don't know which one look it up)
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Will be on @lbcnews.bsky.social with Andrew Peach at 1540 to discuss Israel's expanded ground offensive in Gaza.
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Trump says he is committed to buying and owning Gaza. Why is it I get the feeling that he will not be 'buying' Gaza from its rightful Palestinian owners?
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Will be discussing Trump's proposal to "clean out" Gaza with AndrewMarr on @lbc.co.uk at 1815. Who knows perhaps he will offer to house them in Greenland? Whatever next?
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Palestinians await release of loves ones too, many held without trial, many tortured & some even raped and sexually abused. But for BBC & many politicians Palestinian lives do not count, their suffering irrelevant. And yes trolls, delighted Israeli hostages are being released
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Great to hear that Foregin Office Minister has stated in the chamber that the UK government considers “the value of a Palestinian life is much the same, exactly same as an Israeli life.”
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Quite some wall Braverman managed to "see" between Italy and Turkey
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Bashar Al-Assad statement. Syrians may be a tiny bit surprised to hear he did nothing for personal gain. I assume the billions he pillaged from Syria will be returned?
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The Turkish Foreign Minister stresses that we have to be watchful in this transition period in Syria. Everyone should be treated equally. He says that any chemical weapons stocks must be secured. He stressed that the full territorial integrity of Syria must be maintained
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Acc to the UN, water production in Gaza decreased by 9% in November, mainly due to critical fuel shortages that have resulted in a 43% drop in production by groundwater wells across Gaza.
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Anyone who 'apologises' if their comments caused offence, is not apologising. It is not an apology at all.
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Over the past two months, on average, three children have been killed daily in Lebanon, according to UNICEF.
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Oh.
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
About to go on TRT to discuss the ICC decision on arrest warrants for Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu and former defence Minister, Gallant.
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Israel’s annexation juggernaut unlikely to be stopped - my piece in Arab News - arguing that annexation is inevitable but it is the massive ethnic cleansing that will accompany it that is so terrifying arab.news/vdyq9
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
BBC continues to refer to the Israel-Gaza war online but includes stuff on Lebanon. Begs the question what one does call the whole horror? Not easy to use a descriptor that covers it all. (Iran, Syria, Iraq, Yemen...)
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Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Note condemn not exression of concern. But Smotrich did not make comments. He ordered plans to be drawn up. It was not a view but a policy position.
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