July 6, 2011
Israel‘s illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip has led to an almost complete collapse of Gaza’s economy, making the people dependent on international aid [GALLO/GETTY] Earlier this year we watched with amazement as hundreds of thousands of Arabs charged into the streets of their cities demanding reform. The uprisings led to the departure of several [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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June 21, 2011
No Savior Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Prime Minister. STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images If Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s political career came to an end today, he could still proudly claim to be Palestine‘s most accomplished prime minister ever. The problem is that all of his predecessors — Ahmad Hilmi, Mahmud Abbas, Ahmad Qurei, and Ismail Haniyya [...]
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June 3, 2011
A State for Jews By William James Martin I grew up in NC and was around for the transformation to an integrated society where in the laws of the state and nation became color-blind; and blacks were afforded equal protection under the law. My parent’s generation were generally decent honorable people who wished no one [...]
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June 1, 2011
Misdiagnosing the Middle East |More F. Gregory Gause III | May 26, 2011 There is a dangerous consensus about the Middle East based on the assumption that authoritarian politics are the root of instability, violence and anti-Americanism. Thus the United States is obliged, for both its own security and the furtherance of its values, to [...]
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May 31, 2011
Emperor Obama vs the Arab people Despite calling for change in some parts of the Middle East, the US president reaffirmed the status quo where it counts. Joseph Massad Last Modified: 21 May 2011 13:17 By giving Israel his unflinching support, Obama has alienated much of the Arab world [GALLO/GETTY] In 1960, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan [...]
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May 25, 2011
Netanyahu Conditions Denounced as ‘War’ by Palestinians by Mitchell Plitnick, May 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out what he called his vision for peace with the Palestinians Tuesday, but listed a set of conditions the Palestinians immediately called “a declaration of war.” Speaking before a [...]
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May 23, 2011
Israel‘s new laws promote repression As Arabs across the region struggle for freedom and democracy, Israeli law seems to be headed in the opposite direction. Neve Gordon Last Modified: 10 May 2011 15:23 Email Print Share Send Feedback The Israeli Knesset has passed some 20 new laws that have been characterised as undemocratic and racist – [...]
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May 23, 2011
Obama’s Middle East: Rhetoric and Reality David Bromwich Charles Dharapak/AP Photo President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, May 20, 2011. Being president of the world has sometimes seemed a job more agreeable to Barack Obama than being president of the United [...]
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May 20, 2011
Central to the position in Palestine is the presence of a fully armed and nuclear capable country that is seeking to simply take and to keep taking what belongs to other people. The first taking was then the land was simply handed to them without any regard to the justice of doing that. Regardless of how much [...]
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May 18, 2011
In a recent Davis Suzuki Democracy he quoted a saying that the most revolutionary English words and actions are I’m Staying, the same can certainly apply to “I’m going” George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site. Wednesday, May 18, 2011 He did it, Hassan Hijazi returned to Yafa (Java) – Millions will follow Palestinian Bouazizi [...]
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May 18, 2011
Obama Faces Mounting Arab Disillusionment by David Elkins, May 18, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On the eve of a much-anticipated address by President Barack Obama on U.S. policy in the Middle East, a new survey suggests that disillusionment with both Obama and Washington’s approaches to the region are once again on [...]
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May 17, 2011
On the 63rd commemoration of the Nakba (Arabic: Catastrophe), Palestinians coordinate a historic demonstration. Protests at the Lebanese, Syrian, West Bank, and Gazan borders and inside Egypt took place. Many died as a result of live fire, and hundreds were injured both from Israeli forces and others such as the Egyptian and Lebanese armies. The [...]
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A Gaza message to others
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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