Salman Masalha
To study the nonsensical nature of Netanyahu’s rhetoric about regional peace, it is wise to return to the source, to his original habit...
Showing posts with label Mid-East. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mid-East. Show all posts
Netanyahu and Nasrallah - Two messianic leaders
Indeed, this is a very benighted region. The source of darkness is a life lived in myths of the past.
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Israel and Iran: War Games
As each side calls the other a Satan, Iran can continue to entrench its influence in the Arab world and Israel can continue to occupy Palestine unhampered
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Israel and Iran: War Games
The airstrikes attributed to Israel deep inside Syria, aimed at...
Syria and the Illusion of Arab Solidarity
The Syria Crisis Exposed Nothing More Than The Failure Of Arab Leaders And The Illusion Of Arab Solidarity
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Syria and the Illusion of Arab Solidarity
"There is no morality in the politics of the superpowers, and all the more so where wars are concerned, especially when they take place in distant arenas. In such a situation,...
How We All Got Here
Reflections on Israeli independence day, the Nakba and how the thugs of tribal and religious nationalism from both peoples are tightly grasping the fabric of the land
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How We All Got Here
Three reflections on independence and the Nakba:
1. Despite...
The Massacre of Arab Nationalism
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The Massacre of Arab Nationalism
The Israel Defense Forces are slaughtering Palestinian civilians on the border of the Gaza Strip. Bashar Assad’s regime continues to slaughter Syrian civilians. And the entire world is sitting and watching with folded...
Iran’s Messianic War
The importance of Iran's involvement in Syria is rooted in Iran's vision of the Shi'ite apocalypse
Messianic meeting - Tehran
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Iran’s Messianic War
Iran's involvement in Syria's civil war did not grow simply out of its strategic interests in the...
The Israeli Media Is Hostile
The media sought out cheap Arabist manipulators who tried to bring depth to their analyses and assert that the fires were linked to terror....
Mosque Loudspeakers Disturb The Arabs Too
People in the Arab world suffer greatly from this worrying phenomenon and are seeking a solution to it, and Muslim clerics are likewise working to resolve ...
Jewish and degenerate
Racism and chauvinism, regardless of which side they come from, destroy every bit of gray matter in the human br...
Zealots and Fools Should Not Oversee Jerusalem Holy Sites
Salman Masalha ||| Zealots Should Not Oversee Holy Sites |
Only objective secularists can safeguard the holiness attributed to these sites, to preserve the holiness of humankind, and prevent bloodshe...
Our troubles come from us
Salman Masalha ||Our troubles come from us
"This week, Israel celebrated its 67th independence day. It is not easy to speak of this event in an Arab newspaper, because the mere mention of Israel's name in the Arab arena arouses many emotions. For the past decades, Israel's name has, in the imagination of Arab peoples, been tied to the name Palestine...
The Spring of the Arab Monarchies
Arab Spring
Published in Arabic: Middle East Transparent [1]
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The Spring of the Arab Monarchies
"Here we are, approaching the end of the fourth year of the uprisings that erupted in more than one country across the Arab world, from East...
The war racket in the Middle East serves the U.S.
Wages of war
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The war racket in the Middle East serves the U.S.
As a U.S. senator, Kerry was among the lawmakers with the most money invested in companies with Department of Defense contracts and who earned the most from these investment...
Why America can't figure out the Middle East
What America fails to see
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Why America can't figure out the Middle East
When you lack history how can you understand societies steeped in the past?...
Terrorism's roots lie in literal Islam
Islam needs a revolution
Only a root canal of Islam’s ideas can move the Arab and Muslim world toward modernity.
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Terrorism's roots lie in literal Isl...
Looking only backwards
This entire region is comprised of artificial states that have never managed to create cross-tribal or cross-ethnic national unity, and have always been ruled in the shadow of the bloody, torn past.
Salman Masalha ||Looking only backwards:
Nothing new in the...
The Arabs are flocking back to the tribe
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The Arabs are flocking back to the tribe
In the Jewish sector many voters didn’t bother to show up at the polling places for the municipal elections. Some commentators have linked the low turnout to the disappearance of the national political parties from the local scene. By way of contrast, the Arab sector flocked en masse to...
The code to Damascus
To fathom why the bloody Syrian civil war shows no sign of abating, one has to understand the tribal mentality of the Arab region.
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The code to Damascu...
Saddam Hussein of Damascus
Stop the Syrian regime
There are moments when one cannot stand idly by. The world must stop the killing in Syria.
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Saddam Hussein of Damascus...
