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Month: July 2012
Why is Mali Spiraling out of Control?
By Ramzy Baroud Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region. Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. The […]
Europe and US Richly reward Israel for Pariah Status
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israel has barely put a foot right with the international community since its attack on Gaza more than three years ago provoked global revulsion. The right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu has serially […]
An Image of Hebron: the Occupation’s Ugly face
By Patrick O. Strickland – Hebron (Al-Khalil) A winding road, smooth and freshly paved, carries passengers from Jerusalem to Hebron, situated deep in the stomach of the West Bank. This route, like 80 percent of […]
Letter of Black on White: ‘Ulpana-War-Price Tag’
By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank Not so many years ago, when my friend and I arrived at Beit Furik checkpoint, the assigned commander hastily made his way towards us and demanded that we […]
Israel, US Bent on Brewing Iran Crisis
By Ismail Salami – Tehran A report published on Sunday in Ha’aretz reveals that US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon has presented Washington’s contingency plans for a possible attack on Iran to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
Hypocrisy over Hezbollah Arms
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut From this observers experience in Lebanon there is only one cosmic like event that is nearly as predicable from Ramlet al Baida beach in Beirut, near Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, […]
Occupied Palestine: Making the Abnormal Normal
By Georgina Reeves We finally left Ramallah, later than planned. I was supposed to be back in Bethlehem at 4.30 for Zumba. (Yes, Zumba: but that’s another story!) We didn’t leave until almost 3.45, so even […]
Soft Necks Will Not Be Slaughtered
By Hakim and Kathy Kelly – Kabul Abdulhai remembers his father being killed by the Taliban. ‘Anyone who takes up a weapon in revenge, whether the Talib or any other, is acting like the Talibs […]
What Dani Dayan Says and Why It Is Interesting
By Richard Falk Dani Dayan’s article, ‘Israel’s Settlers Are Here to Stay,’ was published by the NY Times on July 26, 2012. Dayan is the chairman of the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities, and has […]
Israeli Voters in US Election
By Jamal Kanj With the conclusion of the presidential primaries in the 50 US states, a new election campaign is shaping itself in the unofficial 51st state, otherwise known as Israel. A parade of US […]
Syria Descends Further into the Abyss
By Mohamed El Mokhtar I have said shortly after the beginning of the Syrian uprising that the Baath regime could weather the gathering storm of a circumscribed popular revolt without a fatal damage provided it […]
Egypt: From Post-modernism to Post-secularism
By Eric Walberg – Cairo This Ramadan is a historic one, celebrating the triumph of the political vision of Egypt’s legendary Muslim Brotherhood (MB): to take inspiration from the Quran to regenerate Egyptian society. Gamal […]
Palestine’s Investments Require Divestment
By Sam Bahour Nearly two decades ago, I had a dream. I thought the historic tragedy that befell the Palestinian people was about to end. As such, I refused to be an observer to the historic […]
Palestine’s Own Liberation Day is Coming
By Roqayah Chamseddine There is a fire burning beneath the ashes of occupation in Palestine; these are the flickering embers of resilience which have long advanced the people’s struggle for national liberation, and in Palestine […]
Egypt Continues With Tricky Transition
By Ernest Corea – Washington, D.C. Nobody said it was going to be easy. The transition from a military dictatorship of several decades to a democracy is never a straightforward out-in arrangement, as countries which […]
Syrians, Iraqis, Palestinians: No Place to Hide
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression in […]
Lurking Danger: Palestinian Refugees in Syria
By Ramzy Baroud ‘The flames are quickly approaching Yarmouk (as) someone is trying to drag the Palestinians into the fire,’ reported Palestinian commentator Rashad Abu Shawar (as cited in Israeli Jerusalem Post, July 20). Yarmouk […]
Not Time for Hezbollah to Cut-and-Run
By Franklin Lamb – Dahiyeh, South Beirut This observer admits that politically speaking, things might appear a bit tough for Hezbollah these days but will spare the dear reader the tedium of a laundry list […]
The Sky as it Falls
By Kathy Kelly – Kabul For the Afghan Peace Volunteers, living in a working class area of Kabul’s ‘Karte Seh’ district, daily problem-solving requires a triage process. Last week, upon arrival, I looked at the sagging […]
‘Extremism’ and Islam: The Forgotten Letters
By Felicity Arbuthnot – London ‘We are the indispensable nation.’– US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, NBC, 19th February 1998. On 21st September 2001, George W. Bush addressed Congress and the nation. He stated: “Americans […]
Longing for Human Solidarity – For What?
By Richard Falk Being disinclined to look in mirrors, not only to avoid evidences of aging, but also because of an autobiographical deficit, I have recently started to question the vectors of my motivation. Not […]
Divide et Impera
By Uri Avnery Whatever is happening to the Israeli social protest movement? Good question. It is not only being asked abroad, but in Israel, too. Last year the movement reached its peak in a giant […]
Colour Revolutions
By Jim Miles (The Colour Revolutions. Lincoln A. Mitchell. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. 2012.) This proved an interesting book to review for two main reasons. First it discusses a region that I do not have […]
Damascene Triptych
By Pina Piccolo I. The planets blaring symphonicallyAt the rhythm and rage of crickets You better listen to the dispatches sent As they scour their delicate limbsIn this summer of orbs and fires running wild […]
The Path of Resistance: Talking Palestine to Power
By Sonja Karkar Today, there is no excuse for not knowing the truth about Palestine. Even taking the disinformation spread in mainstream media, there are enough glimpses one gets of an oppressed people in Gaza, […]
Was Arafat Murdered?
By Jamal Kanj Most Palestinians, whether they supported their late leader Yasser Arafat or not, were in agreement that he did not die of natural causes. They believed he was murdered by Israel or its […]
Syria: It’s All Anybody’s Guess
By Jaya Ramachandran – London Covert support for anti-regime fighters in Syria is likely to increase as disillusionment with current diplomatic efforts grows, according to knowledgeable sources. Although Saudi Arabia and Qatar have officially denied […]
Myanmar Ethnic Cleansing: Crime against Humanity
By Ismail Salami Described as the Palestine of Asia by the UN, the Rohingya Muslim community in Myanmar is currently going through an unutterable ordeal at the hands of the Rakhine extremist Buddhists in Arakan […]
Israel’s ‘No Occupation’ Report: Way Cleared for Annexation
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The recently published report by an Israeli judge concluding that Israel is not in fact occupying the Palestinian territories – despite a well-established international consensus to the contrary – has […]